Universal Upcycling

It's almost summer! Yay!!!! No school, fun at beaches, and ice cream!!! I had an old pair of jeans, and since it's almost summer, I decided to turn them into shorts. Materials: - scissors - chalk - jeans 1. Mark with chalk where you want to cut your jeans on one side of your jeans. Keep in mind that you are going to roll them up a little. 2. Cut the leg where you marked it, and fold the jeans. 3. Mark the other leg according to you cut on the previous leg, and the leg. 4. Roll up the bottom of the shorts, use fabric glue to keep them in place, and you are set!

I was going to use a water bottle to make cherry blossom prints, but a soda bottle works better for that. Instead I tried to reuse a Dasani Water bottle. I had taken pictures to go with this post, but all of them were deleted when I last checked. It would be a challenge for any other DIY project, but I think I can do it because this project is super simple. Use the final product as a reference. Materials: - an empty plastic water bottle - paint - plant 1. Cut 1/3 of the bottle from the cap down. We will be using the bottom 2/3. 2. Cut the bunny ears out of the remaining bottle. 3. Paint the whole remaining bottle white. 4. I added a cute smile and painted the inside of the ears pink. 5.  Then I planted a flower in the pot! This is a great way to reuse plastic bottles and bring some greenery indoors. - Shruti 

My last post was about upycling a t-shirt. But what about the sleeves? I found a way to reuse them as well! You can find the video  here . Materials: - t-shirt sleeve - scissors - tape - hot glue 1. Cut the sleeve into 5 pieces. 2. Tie a knot with all of the pieces and tape them down. 3.  Take the left-most piece and put it over 2nd left-most piece. 4.  Take the center piece and put it over the 2nd left-most piece 5. Take the right-most piece and put it over the 2nd right-most piece.  6. Take the center piece and put it over the 2nd right-most piece.  7. Repeat this until you have the length you want.  8. Glue the ends together and voila! A cool t-shirt bracelet!! - Shruti