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storagegeek:

DIY Instant Closet from Chairs

This really is incredibly clever. The chairs are a simple wooden folding variety and are not permanently affixed to the wall. Yet when opened they stabilize, hold boxes of loose articles and are the perfect width from the wall to hang even the most bulky of garments.

The entire article Re-Thinking Furniture: Innovative Design Explorations by Yi Cong Lu from Core77 is a good read and full of clever designs.

ray-cho:

:O

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thershaaaaa:

i’ll always reblog this because i still can’t believe i went here, lol.

This is where my kids went last May.

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e-d-i-b-l-e:

Avocado Ice Pop | Recipe via Rachael Ray Mag 

Ingredients:

• 1 large ripe avocado
• 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup chilled heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• pinch of salt
• 4 ice cubes

Method:

• Blend all ingredients until smooth. 
• Pour into popsicle molds. 
• Freeze until firm (about 4 hours).

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unconsumption:

If you’ve ever tried cutting into a plastic bottle, you know that it sometimes isn’t an easy thing to do. 

That said, check out these vessels/vases. Amazing, really.

Would you have guessed that they’re made from plastic bottles?

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I love this idea..

thershaaaaa:

It’s my birthday bitches ! #21aswhy #burthday #ahhhhh

My beautiful daughter on her 21st birthday!

thershaaaaa:

Me & my lovah ! 💘 My first legal drink! 🍹 @benosorno #margaritas (at The Dolphin)

My daughter & her BF

unconsumption:

American artist Bart Vargas’s ”Bottleballs,” salvaged plastic bottles glued onto cardboard globes.

Did you know?

In 2010, the United States generated almost 14 million tons of plastics as containers and packaging, almost 11 million tons as durable goods, such as appliances, and almost 7 million tons as nondurable goods, for example plates and cups.

Only 8 percent of the total plastic waste generated in 2010 was recovered for recycling.

[Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More info in this EPA fact sheet here.]

 

A must do!

unconsumption:

Save wine bottles, make your own tables. 

Simply insert bottles in to openings in pieces of wood. In addition to use as table tops, the pieces of wood (in this case, they’re scrap wood sealed with a wax finish) can function as serving trays.

Brazilian designer Tati Guimarães designed this collection. We featured her metal frame that holds corks — for use as trivets, or to hang on a wall — on Unconsumption here (way back in June 2009!). Check out her site, Ciclus, for additional information.

See also: Earlier Unconsumption post on shelving made from wine bottles and pieces of wood.

For other items in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series — an occasional series of posts highlighting examples of wine-related repurposing — browse here.

Omg what a clever idea. Especially if you have a wine lover in the home.

storagegeek:

Keep power bars off the floor and out of dust bunny hands with this idea.  A couple screw hooks and a basket an voila! no more furballs around the power bar.

Cool idea:)

craftdiscoveries:

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craftdiscoveries:

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Cute DIY Valentine project!

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