Rubbish!: Reuse Your Refuse

By Kate Shoup

Want to know what goodies you can make with your garbage? This book shows you how to give everyday household items a new life the hip craftster’s way. You’ll discover how to complete more than 30 creative projects using materials you already have at your disposal, while reducing trash and upcycling your personal style. From a credit card bracelet to a map photo frame, this fun guide shows you how to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces—one earth-friendly project at a time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
• Release date: Jun 23, 2008
• ISBN: 9780470289259

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Rubbish! Reuse Your Refuse

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Shoup, Kate, 1972-

Rubbish : reuse Your refuse / by Kate Shoup.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-470-22357-4 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-470-22357-X (alk. paper)

1. Handicraft. 2. Salvage (Waste, etc.) I. Title.

TT157.S44 2008

745.5—dc22

2008001305

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Book production by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Composition Services

Illustrations by Brooke Graczyk

Credits

Acquisitions Editor

Roxane Cerda

Development Editor

Natasha Graf

Copy Editor

Catherine Schwenk

Editorial Manager

Christina Stambaugh

Publisher

Cindy Kitchel

Vice President and Executive Publisher

Kathy Nebenhaus

Interior Design

Melissa Auciello-Brogan

Cover Design

José Almaguer

Photography

Jodi Bratch

For Heidi.

Mommus loves you.

Acknowledgments

It is one of life’s great injustices that most books feature only the author’s name on the cover and spine. After all, no title would ever make it to print—let alone into the hands of the interested reader—without the efforts of many others. In the case of this book, cover credit should be expanded to include Cindy Kitchel, Roxane Cerda, and Natasha Graf, whose expert guidance has transformed what was at best a rough idea into the book you see here; Lissa Auciello-Brogan, Henry Lazarek, and Donald Glassman, for their work laying out, proofreading, and indexing this title; and Jodi Bratch, for her fantastic photographs. To the many other talented and dedicated people at Wiley whose hard work has played a part in the publication of this book, thank you so much for your tireless efforts.

Credit should go, too, to the twenty-odd artists who contributed their amazing designs to this book: April Alden, Terry Border, Allison Brideau, Roxane Cerda, Michael Dittman, India Evans, Andrea Glick-Zenith, Kate Grenier, Debby Grogan, Yvonne Hoyer, Mark Kirk, Heather MacFarlane, Melissa Mazgaj, Tiffany Moreland, Mike Mossey, Melissa Nappi, Addie Panveno, April Richardson, Rebekah Seaman, Paul Siefert, Allison Strine, Lisa Vetter, and Shannon Wenisch.

And of course, friends and family members deserve heaps of credit for keeping me well and sane(ish), chief among them my smart, funny, and beautiful daughter, Heidi Welsh. Kid, you’re the best. Thanks, too, to Ian Welsh, Barb Shoup, Steve Shoup, Jenny Shoup, Jim Plant, Jake Plant, the Pfeiffers, the Weitz boys, Sally Chalex, the DKG, the Friday Night Yogis (especially Rianne Keedy), Kate Bova and Miss Cole at The Flying Cupcake, John and Tim and Heidi at Hubbard & Cravens, and, of course, Fergus the Dog. I love you all.

Table of Contents

  Introduction:   The Upside of Recycling

  Part I: Funky See, Funky Do: How Discarded Items Can Take on New Life

Chapter 1:Castoff Call: I Love Trash and Why You Will, Too

Chapter 2:Who Gives a Scrap? Where to Find Those Hidden Gems

  Part II: Waste Not Want Not: Creating Objects of Desire

Chapter 3:Diamonds in the Rough: Making Jewelry from Junk

Can-Do Attitude (Soft Drink Can Resin Pendant)

Good Credit (Credit Card Bracelet)

Long Live Vinyl! (LP Adapter Earrings)

Poker Face (Poker Chip Necklace)

Go Postal (Stamp Brooch)

Vanity Plate (License Plate Pendant)

Put a Cork in It (Cork Bracelet)

Vive La Resistor (Resistor Earrings)

I’m All Verclamped (Bread Bag Clamp Earrings)

Chapter 4:Accessorize, Don’t Excess-orize

Cuff Daddy (Vintage Tie Cuff)

No Dice (Dice Bobby Pins)

Pick of the Litter (Guitar Pick Key Chain)

Cover Me (Album Cover iPod Holder)

Check It (Blue Tarp Checkbook Cover)

As the Wool Turns (Recycled Sweater Purse)

Clutch Player (Lawn Chair Webbing Bag)

Mag Bag (Magazine Purse)

Paper or Plastic? (Plastic Shopping Bag Clutch)

Ab Tab (Pop Tab Belt)

Chapter 5:The Refuse Refuge: Projects for Around the House

Pop Art (Soda Can Address Placard)

You’re So Negative (Photo Negative Lampshade)

Bottle It Up (Discarded Bottle Vase)

Game Time (Game Board Clock)

Turn Me On (Romance Novel Light Switch Cover)

Rock ’n’ Bowl (Record Bowl)

Chapter 6:Creating a Better World, One Gift at a Time

Six-Pack (Bottle Cap Magnets)

Frame on You (Map Photo Frame)

Do Not Pass