This is a meta-craft pipe cleaner holder, useful for storing craft supplies, and a craft in and of itself. The base is a painted toilet paper roll. I could have used feathers or glitter, but since it is probably a scientific fact that the awesomeness of a craft is directly proportional to the number of googly eyes on it, i went all out with those. After only hours of painstaking gluing, deep soul searching, and a paint fume induced existential crisis later, I had a tidy and fun way to store unruly chenille stems. Cost: $1.99 for googly eyes

I recently purchased a small cedar box at a garage sale for $1.00

I decorated the box using pieces from a broken necklace, left over bathroom tiles a friend gave me a few years back and some other odds and ends of tiles and broken stuff I had around. I glued them to the box and then grouted with some black grout a friend gave me years ago when she was moving to another city.

Total cost, $1 Presto!

Holiday Reindeer Mask
1. Use tin foil to create the base shape.
2. Build up the form with duct tape and some papier-mâché to construct the skull and antlers.
3. Put holes on either side and tie on two lengths of ribbon that fit around a head.*
4. Add fancies like feathers or scrap gold. Make teeth using wedding bell candies sold at party supply stores (2.99 a bag)
*Or, reindeer can be easily mounted on a wall plaque for display.

A treat for your feathered friends! Just toast some generic white bread, and tie it together with some fanciful bits of yarn which make a cozy nesting material. Coat the bread with low cost peanut butter and dust with birdseed. Add spectacular flourishes with colorful cereal to draw in the crowds. There you have it; a project that is fun and easy for the whole family to make that brings joy to the local wildlife!

The snowflakes were made scrap/recycled paper and glue. Butterflies from recycled card stock (Under $4)

The snowmen are made of egg carton tops.

My “Where Was I” Bookmarks are made from a pair of girls’panty hose,
($1 at the Dollar Store)

Barbara Sullivan poetatlarge@optonline.net
1-732-424-6168

I crocheted a bathmat out of dollar store Sham-Wow knockoffs! It's ugly but it works great! I live with some messy showerers and this soaks it all up.
As soon as I see the shammys in prettier colors I will jump on it and make a nicer one. In the mean time we're more than making do with the processed cheese-colored one.
I spent $6 on 6 packages of shammys (chamoix?). I cut each into a continuous strip and crocheted them into this beauty!
Best,
Nancy Rogers

MY project was a pill-ture frame! I used a slightly cracked frame I had laying around the house, a handful of expired pills and ibuprofen in my medicine chest, Elmer's glue and glitter. The total cost of the frame was $3 (The cost of the glitter) Everything else was around the house! Once everything dries, I suggest putting a picture of a famous pill-popper in it. I've chosen Courtney Love, only because my printer was broken and I couldn't print a picture of Patty Duke in Valley of the Dolls!

Assemblage - mesh produce bags from Trader Joe's, styrofoam pkg,twigs, pyramid TEA BAG pkg,melted wax,yarn, glitter, old button, misc. paper and hardware

Shadow box.
Materials used: Cigar box, playing cards, glitter, glue, cut out pics, beads, paint.

It was a birthday gift meant to represent what my husband and I had done in the year: Trip to Colombia and Mexico, snorkeling, went to the circus, and played lots of poker.

Doll- (already submitted but other description was wrong)
Twigs from the Park, cut up old tights, steel wool, gold thread

Doll- Corks,steel wool,yarn,gold thread, rags, old sock (skirt and turban), wooden top(head)

Doll -corks, yarn, steel wool, thread,
old sock (for skirt and turban) fabric

Doll - toilet paper roll, old sock, cloth,paper, rags, rope, shower curtain ring (crown around head)

These tiny xmas ornaments, chicks in their nests, and a turtle, were made by my beautiful daughter (when she was little) and I using the cracked walnut shells we found on the table. We sprayed the nests with red glitter paint and filled them with some package shredding. The two chicks are small decorative yellow cotton balls glued together, with a fancy ribbon around their neck, a piece of toothpick for their noses, and sharpie marker eyes. We finished them by glueing on red ribbons to hang them on the tree. All of our relatives got one for Christmas. The turtle is a walnut shell painted green and glued onto green construction paper cut to the shape of a turtle. Thanks for the contest!!

Elvis is made from a discarded champagne cork, a wine cork split in half for the legs. His white suit is made from a damaged white dinner napkin. His hair is sculpted with a low temperature glue gun. His feet are cardboard with glue sculpted over it. His glasses are made from a piece of wine and the top of a Baggie sandwich bag. His is ornamented with loose pieces of rhinestones from junk jewelry, scraps of fabric, scrap of a cord, and one bead for the microphone. I used non-toxic glue and acrylic paint. He is eco-friendly, as he is made from trash and non-toxic materials.

This is "Angel in Wasteland America".
Materials for the three tiered structure: Tier I- plastic Poland Spring bottles. Tier II- molded plastic from toy packaging. Tier III- plastic cake cover from the grocery store. The tree/mistletoe holder is adorned with left over beads from the "Skraptacular Eco-Gift-making Workshop 2009", clementine container and packaging, dried blood oranges, candy wrappers, and wire from champagne corks. It's all Skraptacular trash!

Grandma Eggnes is a hand-painted egg made in honor of my mother-in-law Agnes. Her hair is made from a cotton ball and she sits atop a toilet paper roll covered in felt.

Each sculpture is made from a single plastic bottle (such as detergent, water, milk or bleach) by cutting pieces out. Nothing is added except for a toy sitting on the elephant.

Hello! This is my Bird-In-A-Bag, an original craft design that cost about 5 bucks to make (at most!)
It's from my own little bird pattern, cut out on very soft felt my friend gave me a year ago. I sewed on his crazy dancing legs made of twine, and adorned him with a little acorn hat. His wings are cut from this really cute fabric with little girls and umbrellas on it. And the bag is a hand sewn pouch I made as his home. So, there he is! My little bird-in-a-bag, made from love and less than 10 dollars.

Beachcombing treasures.

With the exception of a dozen rusty finishing nails (Retrieved from the trash and recycled)all materials were found on the beach at Sandy Hook, NJ; including the pieces of snow fencing used to make the frame.