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Rustic Decorations

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Rolled

This is a great craft for kids. My son (who's 6) enjoyed helping out with the cutting, rolling and sticking, and eventually he was really happy to see the decoration go up in the hallway.  All you need is an old cardboard box, cookie cutters, scissors, pencil, a biro that's not working, a roller with spikes (the ones for clothes making - sorry, I just can't remember the name!!), ribbon or string, glue and aluminium foil.

Greeny Crafter - Charity Shop Chic

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Happy Chinese New Year! It's bye bye to the year of the Rabbit, and hello year of the Dragon!!! I'm ushering in the year with our second Greeny Crafter, Sally from Charity Shop Chic.  Sally is from London and she has a flair for creating new clothes from old.  What I love  is that she's able to find pre-loved items at charity shops, chops them up and has creates something chic.  Sally says "I got into refashioning as an easier way of making new clothes than starting from scratch. It's so easy to buy something with the buttonholes and zip and sleeves already made and just tweak it to get it the way you want! Since then I have been doing more 'extreme' refashions, cutting things up so they are totally unrecognisable from the original. I started a blog because I had been reading a lot of other blogs and found them inspirational, and had the idea that maybe my work could inspire others in the same way."


Sally of Charity Shop Chic in her snood & mitts!
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I love the snood and mittens that she refashioned from an old jumper from a charity shop. It may be hot over here in Singapore, but if I have to fly over to a cold country for a holiday or for a business trip, buying a new pair of mits and a snood would be very wasteful indeed!!!


I'm also a fan of her refashion of a skirt into this classy dress:


Photo: Charity Shop Chic
Sally has had lots of compliments and the nicest one she got was when she made a dress from old T-shirts based on a Stella McCartney design recently and a lot of commenters said it looked like the original! Find out how Sally does it over at her blog, Charity Shop Chic!!! 


If you would like to be featured in the Greeny Crafters, drop me an email @ greenissuessg@gmail.com.


Happy crafting!

Belt or necklace?

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Hellooooo!!! Chinese New Year is in 4 days!!!  It's a Chinese tradition to buy new clothes and wear them on the first day of Chinese New Year (this Sunday).  This time, we've decided that we won't be buying anything new so long as what we will wear is not dark and dreary but bright and cheerful!!


So can you guess what I have made to compliment my clothes? Is it a belt? A necklace? It's made from the seams of old jeans and it's easy as pie!  Best of all, no sewing machine is needed!!!



Are You a Greeny Crafter?

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  • Do you love recycling old things into something new?
  • Do you jump at the chance to refashion your old clothes?
  • Do you think twice before you purchase something from the shop?

If you answered "yes" to all of the above, then I would love to feature you on my blog.  I'll be featuring greeny crafters every week so if you're interested in sharing your ideas, please drop me a line at greenissuessg@gmail.com .  I'm looking for originality and creativity!!  My first feature was Jill from Jembellish


Remember to grab one of my buttons on the side bar!!


Some rules:
a) Only blogs with a greeny element to it (upcycling, recycling, refashioning etc) with easy to follow tutorials will be featured.  No commercial sites please. 


b) I love honest greeny crafters. Sorry, I don't feature crafters who pass off crafts as being theirs. I think it is only fair that we acknowledge the rightful creators!


c) I love clear and colourful photos but I won't feature those that are copyrighted. Please ensure that the photos that you would like me to use are yours and not someone else's :-)





Jean Pocket Pot Holders

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I've finally decided to venture into featuring greeny and crafty people! Spent this evening coming up with my buttons!!!


Since I've been recrafting my hubby's jeans into almost anything, I was excited when I saw that Jill from Creating my way to Success come up with a lovely way of reusing old jeans.  I've turned mine into a wristlet but pot holders can brighten up a kitchen and are way more useful than wristlets!!! To add extra padding to the potholders, I'm planning to add in old towels - don't want to burn our crafty fingers!


Jill's jean pocket pot holders!!

Jeans into Reversible Bag

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Taking a whole week off to spend time with family .... and also do some crafts!  This time I did a reversible bag from an old pair of jeans and two old belts.  I love it - 2 bags in one! :-)  
There aren't any measurements in the tute below as I feel everyone's preference for the size of bag is different!

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