Jerry Can To Gas Case Carry On

Ivorilla has found a way to reuse old gas jerry cans to make rolling luggage. An ingenious way to reduce, reuse and recycle, the Ivorilla Gas-Cases are available in suitcases and DJ or business cases.

The Gas-Cases have even been featured in Maison et Objet show in Paris!

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Lamps From Old Light Bulbs

Slowly fluorescent light bulbs are becoming harder and harder to find as everyone switches to the energy-efficient, longer lasting compact fluorescent light bulbs. But if you still have some of the older light bulbs and are looking to get rid of them, instead of sending them to the landfill, how about making something practical for the house with them. Like these oil lamps.

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DIY Knotted Headband

Mandy at Sugar Bee Craft shows us how to reuse old t-shirts to make a knotted headband.

The full DIY is on Sugar Bee Craft

Bicycles In The Bathroom Makeover

What do you do if you find the perfect vintage bicycle, but there is something irreparably wrong with it? Perhaps you already have one at home and really don’t know what to do with it? Well Benjamin Bullins has a great art piece that can serve as inspiration to give your bathroom the makeover it’s been crying out for. It features a washbasin with a bicycle frame as the stand and the bicycle basket holds spare, fresh hand towels.

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OAT Shoes

Blue OAT Shoes, plant them when they are old and worn and flowers will grow. A constant problem we have in the modern world is refuse and in other words, throwing things away and having to buy new ones that will only get thrown away when they are worn through or irreparable. That’s why recycling has become so popular, instead of filling our already over flowing landfills with things that have been thrown away, we have found ways to reuse for different purposes, recycle into some other useful thing or re-purpose to a different use.

OAT Shoes supports this philosophy, they feel that fashion needs to set standards to remain popular and the designer that refuses to see this risks extinction, or worse, unpopularity.

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