Upcycle old maps by turning them into gift bags
Over on Offbeat Bride our DIY editor Liz has got a great post on how to make a gift bag out of a map. This tutorial is a great way to recycle something old into something new, AND guarantee you’ll never have to buy gift bags again!
Offbeat Homies Weekend Challenge: anthropomorphize ALL THE THINGS!
Inspired by Sandrine Estrade Boulet‘s awesome street-art inspired work, this weekend’s Offbeat Homies Weekend Challenge is to go out into your neighborhood and anthropomorphize some shit, and then take hilarious photos of it!
This could be as easy as eye-bombing or as complex as using chalk, yarn, or other mixed materials to create a temporary humanoid form out of a found object or natural element.
Here’s how to play…
Leo D’s renting out his beach house this summer so I need 300 of you to give me $500 each
I was recently told that Leonardo DiCaprio is renting his Malibu beach house this summer for a cool $150,000 a month. Reality aside (because seriously: 150k! A month!), I immediately started thinking of all the things I would do in said beach house.
Make these DIY crystal bottle stoppers
Right? Cupcakes and Cashmere has the tutorial on how you can transform a little epoxy, a pretty stone, a cork stopper and into something super cool for the top of your liquor cabinet. Good for gifts, parties, and little presents to yourself. (The presents of which I speak are boozepresents.)
Weekend challenge results: Team Cupcake vs. Team Unicorn
Last Thursday, we posted the first of what we hope will be many Offbeat Homies Weekend Challenges. We gave readers a choice of two DIY challenges: nerdy cupcakes with sanding sugar, or faux taxidermied unicorn heads.
Well, the results are in, and no surprise that they are fucking awesome! We’ve got tentacles, TARDIS blue EXTERMINATE cupcakes, a pet rat, and wait until you see the jackalope…
Behold: a rec-room staircase crafted from rocks
When you buy a house from the owners of a patio design company, you’ve gotta hope for an interesting house. Redditor kyky05 got one — that’s how his house came to have a built-in stone staircase/koi pond leading to the downstairs rec room.
Don’t worry — there’s a normal staircase, too.
Build a greenhouse out of recyclables
‘Round my parts, it’s pretty damn easy to find old wood-framed windows. They come out of farmhouses, falling down foreclosed homes…I see them in so many projects I wonder if there isn’t a country-window-growing breed of tree propagating in the Midwest. Well, here’s a way to use ’em up.
The House of Yes: almost nothing cost more than $150
A couple years ago, I had to disassemble my adorable apartment, passing along my furniture to my students and packing everything else into my car. But before I began the process of getting rid of my worldly possessions, I thought my little flat deserved a bit of a photo shoot.
98% of what you see here is second hand. And with the exception of electronics, nothing cost more than $150!