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Weekend Roundup: Stash Busting Projects

9 April 2010 3,908 views 6 Comments

by heather

Color your Glass Jars: Check out this amazing tutorial for upcycling your stash of old kitchen jars into these pretty colored glasses over at Gingerbread Snowflakes (wow, Pam! This is awesome!)

Oh, and before we get into stash busting stuff, here are a few belated Placemat Projects:

[NurseryLove's Traveling Placemat]

Here are some other cool ideas for busting your stash:

[amazing stashbusting diamond pillow from Sparkle Power!]

Tutorials:

[Gilded leaf art by Holly at Art Meet Craft]

[bust your paper scraps with this pretty Wall Flowers tutorial by Absinthe and Orange]

Inspiration:

Sweet Swapping Sites to help you lighten your load:

  • thredUP: clothes swapping for men & women
  • threadUP kids: in beta, but open for swapping your gently-used kids' clothes - free!
  • Paperbackswap: just like it sounds! Swap your paperbacks for free - I love it and use it all the time

Stashbusting Activities:

Stashbusting Abroad:

Join UK Handmade in Destashing: Join the group here

Keep on busting! Feel free to send your stashbusting projects and links - comment here with a link and I'll try to include it in next week's roundup! (Commenting is better than email... just trust me on that!)

p.s. Busy Beaver Button Co. is sponsoring a giveaway on the Swap-bot blog for 100 custom, 100% recycled paper buttons. It will be open for entry through Earth Day.

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6 Comments »

  • Nicole Maki said:

    Thanks so much for the shout-out. I’m thrilled!

    Love all the projects and the links – they are a wonderful, inspiring compliment to my morning coffee :-)

  • pam said:

    So much stash busting inspiration going on here! I am actually working on projects right now that will qualify as stash busters! Will keep you posted!

    And thank you so, so much for posting my spring colored “reuseful” jars! I am using half of them as vases and half as candles right now – this very minute!

    Keeps me cheered up in this dark, rainy, cold spring weather!

  • NurseryLove said:

    Thanks for featuring my placemat with some of your other amazing things, I tried the link though and it seems to be broken :( Here is an actual link: http://nurseryloveblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/tuesday-tutorial-travel-placemat.html Thanks again, I just blogged about it with a link to you :)

  • Chris said:

    Thanks for linking to my wind chime project.

    (pssst I am so making pretty colored spice jars with modge podge paints thanks for the idea.)

  • heather (author) said:

    @NurseryLove: thanks for catching that — I fixed it!

  • Fabric Flower Collage said:

    [...] stash; getting rid of the clutter that is one’s fabric stack. I learned the term over at Dollar Store Crafts, and thought, “I’ve got some stash to [...]

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