Trash-to-Treasure Thursday’s

Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Garden Hoses}

Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Having spent a little bit of time watering the plants, I thought of ways one might be able to repurpose a garden hose and came across these creative ideas.  Luckily, all of our hoses are in great working order, but should they ever need to be replaced, I’ll definitely consider at least one of these [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Pallets}

Thursday, April 28, 2011
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  Ages ago I worked at an international freight forwarding company who primarily shipped oil and gas related goods to the Russian Far East.  I’ve seen my fair share of wood pallets from the job but I’ve never seen any used as creatively as these shown below. {balcony pallet garden by life on the balcony [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Easter}

Thursday, April 21, 2011
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While I don’t celebrate Easter, it’s nearly impossible to avoid it.  Every store you visit you’re bombarded with plastic eggs and grass, copious amounts of wanna-be chocolate, peeps that now come in every shade of the rainbow and Easter baskets designed to only get you through the day.  Why not skip the store and try [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Paper Tubes}

Thursday, April 14, 2011
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As bad as this may sound, I only recently started recycling our toilet paper tubes.  I know, I feel REALLY bad.  It’s so obvious, I guess they just weren’t in an obvious place and until several months ago when our house got a recycling make-over, I didn’t have a trigger or a reminder to recycle [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Tennis Balls}

Thursday, April 7, 2011
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I’ve seen a LOT of repurposed tennis balls lately so I thought I’d dedicate an entire post to these yellow, furry balls.  I personally don’t play tennis so the closest I get to a tennis ball is playing catch with a dog at the Oregon Humane Shelter.  Although, we’ve recently discovered our cat, Buster, LOVES [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Lighting}

Thursday, March 31, 2011
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With spring here the days are getting longer and brighter and it made me think of how much more light we have!  This week’s Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste will highlight (har, har) some cool lighting finds! {made from nothing other than eyeglasses by Stuart Haygarth}

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Glass Jars}

Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Glass is not only better for you than BPA-lined aluminum, it’s also much sturdier than it’s plastic counterparts.  Glass can also be recycled indefinitely.  It’s a wonder it’s become one of my favorite collector items!  I thought I’d scour the internet to find other uses for glass jars and hopefully inspire you to think twice [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Green}

Thursday, March 17, 2011
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Since today is St. Patrick’s day, I thought I’d focus on repurposed, upcycled goods in shades of, yes… green!  Since I won’t be out and about this St. Patrick’s day and when I think of a color associated with both recycling and St. Patricks day – green is the first color that comes to mind [...]

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Trash to Treasure: Re-Imagining Your Waste {Garden}

Thursday, March 10, 2011
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  Welcome to the first edition of “Trash to Treasure {Thursday’s}: Re-Imagining Your Waste”! Inspired by people, places and things I’ve met, seen or experienced, I decided to start a weekly post dedicated solely to things that have been creatively repurposed, reused or otherwise diverted from the landfill.  In this weekly post you’ll see nothing [...]

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