About Recycling With Angela

Recycling has many benefits:

Creative satisfaction

Emergency gifts for forgotten birthdays, or extra guests

Prevent boredom and loneliness and feeling useless

Prevent plastics getting into our food and bodies

Save money

Save time

Save wildlife

 

This blog will cover these subjects and more - and the titles alone will be enough to inspire ideas:

A

a - miscellaneous, more

B

Batteries - recyclable

Boots into planters

b - miscellaneous, more

C

Card into place cards, 

Cereal Packets as magazine racks

Cereal Packets to puppet cones 

chocolate boxes into jewellery boxes

crockery - see tea cups

cutlery into picnic boxes

curtains to conceal bookcases and files

Cushions converted into pillows

Cushions for storage

D

Doors into tables

E

eggs boxes into seed planters, ear-ring boxes

F

Fabric to edge shelves, fabric patches for stained items

Fabrics into pencil skirts

Feathers into fascinators, brooches, plant pot decoration, fancy dress, trilby hat decoration, birthday card decoration

Flowers - dried flowers

FOOD: apples, bread, butter, coffee, coffee grounds, eggs, eg whites; egg yolks, fruit, meat, leftovers, potato, rice, salad, soups, tea, water, wine, yogurt 

G

glass / drinking glass - avocado stone grower, spider catcher, 

gloves into dusters

H

I

J

K

L

Leather into decorations for shoes, key fobs, gloves, book covers

Lollipop sticks into seed markers and plant names

Masks for Covid-19 from elastic, fabric, socks, scarves, ribbon, string, 

N

netting - prtect fruit trees from birds

O

P

Paper into scrap paper, paper into note pads, book covers, noteboks and diary covers

Paper strips for quilling

Paper plates into facy dress masks

Paper into decorations: paper chains, window decorations

Pepper

Pillows into puppets,  soft toys and cushions

Pillowcases into chair backs, tote bags, crop tops, bikini tops, bikinis, bag linings, laundry bags

Q

R

Recycling/Converting Scarves into dresses

Repairing shoes

Repairing umbrellas

S

salt

saucepans into plant pots

Sheets into backgrounds

Short skirts into dresses, pillow cases, tote bags

Skirt cutoffs into headbands, belts, sleeve tabs, rosettes, boleros, bolero edges, bolero sleeves, pendant cords, hair ties, fascinators.

socks into dusters

Socks into gloves or glove liners or mittens

Socks into puppets

Socks into slippers

Socks to cover brooms

sugar

Suitcases for storing papers, seasonal clothes, birthday gifts, holiday handbags

T

tea cups, small ones into toy tea sets

Tissue boxes into tissue bins

Toilet rolls, toilet roll tubes to certificate holders

Pillowcases into tote bags

Pillowcases into cushions

T

Toilet roll tubes

Torn towels into swimming pool ponchos, face flannels, cleaning cloths, dusters, hair tint shoulder protection

Tote bags from carrier bags

tote bags as covers for magazine racks

U

Umbrella Repairs

V

W

wine: white wine into cleaning vinegar, stain remover

Wrap skirts into dresses

Wrapping paper to cover books and exercise books

Wrapping paper to cover magazine racks

Wrapping paper to cover wast paper bins, wrapping paper with birthday motif for shoe box containing birthday gifts

X

Y

Z

Zipped airline sock or cosmetic bags, for pockets and concealed pockets in clothes

BLOGS

VIDEOS 

WEBSITES

GLOSSARY

bolero - short jacket, usually with short sleeves, worn over evening dress for warmth or modesty or alternative look, often open to show front of dress and without buttons or fastening

fascinator - small hat on headband, often like a large feathery or stiff lace pom pom to attract attention

mittens - gloves with two sections for thumb and other fingers, instead of five fingers, usually for cold weather.

pom pom - large ball of wool strands on top of a knitted hat, or small fabric ones as edging on a fringe, or similar balls of any material

tote bag - large square or oblong bag which opens full length at top for carrying shopping, with shoulder strap, or with a double handle, ideally not string but large wide to support the load and not put pressure on wrists

SEE ALSO

For blouse see shirt or top or separates or bolero

For cans see tins or tin cans

For cotton see thread

For dress see clothes

For embellishing see upcycling

For fabric see cloth and material

gifts see presents

For material see fabric

For convert see turn, remake

For mending see recycling and repairing

For presents see gifts, anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas

For recycling see mending and repairing

For repairing see mending and recycling

For thread see cotton

For tins see cans 

For upcycling see embellishing

After writing a label or two, you can print words for labels which you can attach with sticky tape. Or cut words from magazines and leaflets.

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker . Please share links to your favourite posts