As the garden blossoms and cycles all things continuously, so do we. Unfurl your natural creative expression and help transform household items from one purpose to the next.
Check back often for a growing body of blog posts on repurposing, upcycling and sharing inspiration through colors, paints, and fabrics and more. A fertile cross-pollination of gardening and recycling if you will!
What do you do with old T-shirts? Fabric scraps? Old DVD’s? See posts below.
Upcycled Micro Bags & Bins — Made From Plastic Bag Trash
Though this is primarily a garden blog, I like to toss in a few posts about creativity and upcycling from time to time, since those also inspire me and feel in sync with nature itself: creative and cyclic. One of the recycling challenges that always stumps me is what to do with the plastic bags…
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Upcycling Old T-Shirts Into Rugs
What to do with old t-shirts? Time to retire your old garden clothes? Upcycle them into fun rugs!
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Bring the Garden to You — coping with pandemic isolation by creating art from the garden
Is pandemic life of isolation or inclement weather getting you down? Bring the sanctuary and refuge of the garden indoors with calming and creative outlets like painting garden scenes from your photographs. Visit the-compulsive-gardener.com garden blog for tips, inspiration, and all things gardening–a chat over the garden fence!
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Upcycling an Old Ladder-back Chair Into a Playful Garden Picnic Seat
Upcycling a ladder-back chair with fabric strips for caning and refinished with whimsical painting.
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What to do with all those old DVDs and CDs
What to do with all those old dvds and cds that you can’t recycle after your Marie Kondo purge? Upcycle them into art — wall hangings, garden art, room dividers.
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Winter Upcycling Projects
During the rainy days when it’s too inclement to garden, try an upcycling project like making produce bags, or new cushions for garden benches, or some upcycled furniture.
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