My Kaboodle

Upcycling is generally awesome- it saves materials, reduces trash and promotes creativity. There are a lot of easy little ways make items destined for...

This string of 60 LED holiday lights feature 16 function settings with memory. With a UL rating for indoor or outdoor...

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This Good Tidings string of 70 LED incandescent bulbs are break, fade, and chip resistant. With a UL rating for indoor...

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Crafters love to look for craft materials in unlikely places. Here are five great ways to use reclaimed computer parts...

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Love this idea! I started doing this when I found a ton of cute clear glass teacups at a thrift store and bought like ten. I didn't know yet what I...

I just made one out of the thinner kind of plastic some stores use. It works great. I'm going to make another one, but I'll line it with paper to make...

I took the lid off of one altoid tin, and attached it to the back of another. This lets me separately carry one or two cards, eg. a credit card and my...

I took this idea and made a custom tri-fold wallet with 6 card slots: One windowed card slot (for driver's license) on the leftmost panel, two stacked...

I've been making things out of these plastic bags for a while now, and one thing the beige ones come in handy for is the mat you park outside your...

"I now have a lot of umbrella skeletons.The lengths and materials vary from steel to plastic to aluminium and some a long, some very short and...

Ever find yourself hanging on to some of those cheap wooden chopsticks that they have out for free at, say, a grocery store sushi display? Here's...

Collect your cardboard scraps and draw a tiered tree pattern with a 90 degree edge on one of them. Use your first one as a pattern (or make a paper...

These Katamari decorations are a great way of using little scraps of felt and ribbon to make brightly coloured decorations for your geeky Christmas...

Nifty! It occurred to me that at least here in the US, you can probably find some 3oz. paper cups which would be just the right size, saving some...

Has anybody tried growing a plant from a light bulb with bio-luminescent algae added to the water? A Instructable showing how to grow these glowing...

My old sketchbook was falling apart, it wasn't filled up yet, I wanted to keep using it, it had the correct rings for rebinding, and there was a lot...

Sir, you are quite clever :) What if you put a small solar panel in the turn lid its self, so even when it closed, its still charging. Have a small...

First collect the following: * A colourful page from a used magazine or an old colourful poster. If you want to make beads of a full colour, you must...

Here's a fun ,but simple way to recycle those old useless cd's you have laying around your house and turn them into something useful again. You will...

Sorry to hear that! How often did you twist the rubber bands? I usually put it once or twice around the first bottle neck (depending on the length of...

Many of us have old CD's laying around and hate to just throw them away. This is just one of probably a thousand ideas for using them. I had some...

I made this for my friend for her first day at UMD. This is my first instructable so any helpful tips are appreciated. Just be nice :)

Thanks, was really fun and easy, except for the sewing bit which I got confused in so I just made up as I went along :) Also as a fun addition, I...

The first thing to do is create panels that will eventually become the bottom, middle, front and back panels of the caddy. Prepare the work area by...

I happened upon a large collection of nautical charts. And I love maps. I went through my collection and have stored the ones that are worth holding...

Often when I need cards, I find myself making them from paper and scraps of supplies I have around my office instead of purchasing them but for some...

In this 'ible i will show you how I made and how to make a notebook out a envelope. PS: Sorry for the bad pics, they were taken with my netbook...

I used to do this when I used "snail mail". In fact, I canvassed my whole office to give me their old calendars each December instead of throwing them...

For the pages: Waste paper that has been used on one side only or used envelopes. For the covers: Milk bottles, car/truck inner tubes, or corrugated...

Materials: 1 cereal box that is at least 12 inches tall and with a combined width+depth of at least 10 inches - this will be the main jacket of the...