Category Archives: Quick Repurposing

Flower Display-Vanilla Bean Tube

Our next re-purposed flower display container is a vanilla bean tube. If you have never purchased vanilla in it’s natural bean form we highly recommend it.  The taste is incomparable to vanilla extract.  Oh, and you can use the empty tube … Continue reading

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Flower Display 101

With half of citymade out of town this week, we chose some low-maintenance re-purposing. It’s the time of year when the flowers are blooming and we are trying to soak up as much warm weather as we can before the … Continue reading

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You can hang your hopes on this iPad stand

Ok, so you have the iPad and you want to lay in your bed and watch movies from the Netflix iPad app. But you want to hold you significant other’s hand while you watch Zombieland. How can you hold the … Continue reading

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MacBook Not Afraid Take a Stand

Christian is a whiner baby and has to have everything “just right.” Everyone agrees that this gets old real fast. Continue reading

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It's a stimulating beverage AND a furniture cleaner

Jeff’s coffee addiction and filthy chair cancel each other out in today’s repurposing post. Continue reading

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Ribbon Board

We are concluding furniture week with a quick and easy re-purpose: Old bulletin board to ribbon board.  We had this old bulletin board that was not being used.  By covering the front with some batting and fabric (using a staple … Continue reading

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Beat the Back-to-School Blues

Our final project for Back-to-School week is this cute first week countdown. Make that first week back easier by giving the kids a surprise to begin each day. We took toilet paper rolls, painted them, and glued numbers on them … Continue reading

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Notebook Re-do

Turn a plain notebook into a one-of-a-kind notebook for your little student.  We used ribbon scraps and come glue to design our notebook. The possibilities are endless: stickers, pipe cleaners, magazine clippings, bottle caps or fabric scraps can be used … Continue reading

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Ice Cream Bucket to Ice Bucket

Gotta love the easy ones! Ice cream bucket to ice bucket. With the hot weather we at citymade are going through a lot of ice. Now that we use the ice cream bucket as an ice bucket, it can be … Continue reading

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Popsicle Sticks to Plant Labeler

Summer+Popsicles=Popsicle sticks. Once the popsicles are gone, what to do with the sticks? Use them to mark your plants in your garden. They are easy to stick in the ground and will hold up through rain. We just wrote the … Continue reading

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