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  Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design

  by Steve Dodds

  Previously Announced. Recycle. Restore. Repurpose. This unique book inspires art, creation, and environmentalism with 50 projects that transform yesterday's trash into today's stylish and useful objects. Using found, discarded, and cast-off items as a foundation-from old computer cases, soda cans, and record album covers to foam packing-readers can fashion stylish clocks, end tables, frames, and much more.
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  Nothing to Lose

  by Lee Child

  Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn’t the welcome... (more)
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  Dream Bedroom: Use recycled materials to make cool crafts (Ecocrafts)

  by Rebecca Craig

  Become a makeover master with these stylish and environmentally friendly ideas for bedroom decorations, storage solutions, and even furniture. Dream Bedrooms contains twelve projects to transform every child's bedroom using recycled materials. From a shoebox treasure chest and candy-wrapper stained glass to a plastic-bag pennant and papier-mache cacti, simple steps transform practical items into pretty bedroom... (more)
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  Ecocrafts

  by Rebecca Craig

  Wow friends and family with eco-conscious, cool, and highly individual gifts that cannot be found in any store -- perfect for birthdays, holidays, and much more! From cute and colorful sock puppets for a younger brother or sister to a stylish stationery set for Dad and a beautiful bracelet for Mom, these accessible and easy-to-follow projects will keep children engrossed for hours.
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  Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures

  by Amanda Blake Soule

  Handmade Home offers simple sewing and craft projects for the home that reflect the needs, activities, and personalities of today’s families. Filled with thirty-three projects made by reusing and repurposing materials—from vintage feedsacks to old sheets and towels—and including some projects that children can help with, all of the items here offer a practical use in the home. Amanda Soule does much more than... (more)
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  Hunk of Junk

  by Janis Asad Raabe

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  Why Recycle

  by Newbridge

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  Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids

  by Gail Gibbons

  Explains the process of recycling from start to finish and discusses what happens to paper, glass, aluminum cans, and plastic when they are recycled into new products.
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  AlternaCrafts: 20+ Hi-Style Lo-Budget Projects to Make

  by Jessica Vitkus

  First came indie rock bands and indie movies. Now, thanks to Jessica Vitkus, the indie movement has reached the world of crafts, where traditional techniques such as knitting, mosaic, embroidery, metalwork, sewing, and collage are being used in brave new ways. With an emphasis on recycling, improvising, and making things from scratch, AlternaCrafts offers more than 20 projects that provide this newest... (more)
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  The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts: Fifty Fabulous Projects from the Fifties and Sixties

  by Leah Kramer

  You’ll find no die-cut teddy bears, cross-stitched friendship plaques, and ducks painted with bonnets in THE CRAFTSTER GUIDE. A hip collection of easy-to-make, fun-to-wear, and stylish-to-display crafts from the fifties and sixties, it features 50 projects culled from vintage craft publications, including more than 10 new retro-inspired projects. This unabashedly tacky craft compendium includes clear instructions,... (more)
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  Kitchen Junk (Studio)

  by Mary Randolph Carter

  America's triumphant Queen of Junk homes in on where the heart dwells--in the kitchen--with vintage treasures that add spice to life and cost next to nothing In the effervescent yet practical style of her American Junk and Garden Junk , Mary Randolph Carter tracks down and rescues kitchen gems everywhere from thrift shops to tag sales to country auctions. Kitchens are often the source of our earliest... (more)
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  Craftivity: 40 Projects for the DIY Lifestyle

  by Tsia Carson

  From the creators of the hugely popular craft site, Supernaturale.com, comes a hip and funky compendium of new DIY projects that reshape, reuse, and redefine the concept of "handmade," moving away from country–cutesy, granny craft into utilitarian craft art for the 21st century. Got a pile of extra buttons and don't know what to do with them? Make a cool bracelet. Need some pillows for your new couch, and have... (more)
• Second Stitches: Recycle As You Sew (Creative Machine Arts)Susan D. Parker

  

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  Second Stitches: Recycle As You Sew (Creative Machine Arts)

  by Susan D. Parker

  Over the past few years, recycling has become a way of life in many households. More and more people are becoming aware that it is vitally important to recycle products; and with increased facilities now available, this is easier now to put into practice. This book provides a thoughtful look at environmentally conscious sewing and shows that no one need ever throw out a scrap of fabric or article of worn out... (more)
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  Earthfuture - Stories from a Sustainable World

  by Guy Dauncey

  As we enter the 21st century, the greatest challenges we face may not be environmental, but psychological - a failure of vision prompted by a world beset by so many problems that people have lost hope and fear that things can only get worse. Earthfuture restores optimism by providing us with positive, and achievable, alternatives. Earthfuture presents over 40 provocative and inspiring glimpses into a world that... (more)