The document presents a compilation of creative DIY ideas for making useful items from old or waste materials found at home. It outlines various projects, such as creating flower bouquets from newspapers, making clocks, and crafting decorative pieces, providing step-by-step instructions for each. The author emphasizes the potential to repurpose everyday items creatively, encouraging readers to consider reusing materials before discarding them.

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DIY Ideas At
Home
Make Best Out Of
waste
By
Mary L. Parker
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For my students and friends, who all
selflessly helped me in writing this book.
Special thanks to those who asked,
insisted and assisted me in turning the
seminars in this practical form. All Rights
Reserved 2012-2015 @ Mary L. Parker.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Make Flower Bouquet From Newspaper
Make A Clock From Newspaper
Weaving Baskets With Newspaper
Make Tea Table From Tree Stump
Make Snowman From Old Socks
Use Old Wine Or Beer Empty Bottles
Book Clock Table Number
Comic Book Coasters
Make Purse From Old Books
Make Decorative Flowers From Orange
Cover
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Decorate Old Plastic Bottles
Make Flower Vask With Old Socks
Make Candle From Orange Cover
Make Earring Holder From Keyboard
Make Newspaper Bowl
Glass Candle Holder
Make Pet House From Waste Tyre
Waste Tyre Used As A Planter
Wall Art With Unused Keys
Make Cute Plastic Wallet From Bottle
Make Handprint Photo Frame
Wall Mirror Using Old Bottle Caps
Make Lamp From Plastic Bottles
Make Vask From Plastic Bottle
Make Single Seat Sofa From Plastic Bottles
Make Tote Bag From Old T-Shirts
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Make Garden Light From Plastic Bottle
Make Handbag From Old Jeans
Make Caterpillar From Old Sock
Make A Seater From Tyre
Make Jewelry Tree From Tree Trunk
Make Newspaper Bags
Decorate Wall Using Newspaper
Make Ear Rings Holder From CD
Decorate Old Tea Kettle
Make Bangle From Cd
Make A Flower Vask From Tree Branches
Use Fused Bulb
Make Candle Stand From Can
Make Christmas Tree From Spoon
Make Pineapple Lamp From Plastic Spoons
Make Pot From Bottles And Cd's
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Do Painting From Plastic Bottle
Make Button Bowl
Make Confetti Bowl
Make Candles From Bottle Caps An
Crayons
Make Gift Item From Cds
Make Mobile Holder From Lotion Bottle
Make Sticks Flower Vask From Can
Make Mirror From Plastic Spoons
Make Earrings From Bottle Caps
Make Earrings From Buttons
Make Candles From Egg Shell
Make Buttons Calendar
Make Key Rings From Buttons
Make Rings From Buttons
Make Fringe Garlands
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Make Paper Chain Backdrops
Make Handmade Banner From Ice Cream
Sticks
Make Gift Box From Tape Roll
Make Lamps Using Plastic Bottle
Make Decorative Lamps From Old Cd's
Make Decorative Lamps From Old Bangles
Make Coaster From Old Cd's
Make Lantern From Paper Cups
Make Spiral Window Hanging
Make Keychain From Computer Keyboard
Make Pen Stand From Keyboard Keys
Make Keyboard Clutch
Decorate Your Scrapbook Or Personal
Diary With Keyboard Keys
Make Easter Egg With Chocolate Inside
From Threads
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INTRODUCTION
Here in this book I am going to
share with all some creative ideas on how
to use old and waste material in your
house. You will be amazed to know that
you can make useful and creative items
from those materials at your home only. I
myself tried these ideas and get praised
by family and friends. So, I thought to
share it with you all. I have made different
sections in the book, so that it becomes
simple for you. So, before throwing any
item from your house, first go through
this book, might be you get some idea to
re-use that item.
With old and waste items in house, you
can make flowers, wreath, show pieces,
decorative items and many others
ornaments for decorating your house. You
can even make very creative and unique
items for home like frames, cards, toys,
wall hangings from those items. So, don’t
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threw them, they could be used for
decorating your home. Here, in this book I
am sharing with you interesting things
you can do with old items in your house.
Have a look at them.
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Make Flower Bouquet From
Newspaper
What all you need is Newspapers,
Scissors, glue gun (or simple glue),
Floral cloth wire and a Ribbon.
First take a newspaper and cut it into a
circle of around 10 inches in
circumference. Now cut a spiral into the
circle, allowing at least an inch border
around each cut.
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Start it rolling from the outside edge, and
continue until you reach the center.
Once you finished rolling, place the rolled
paper flower on your work surface and
allow it to unroll a bit. To create curled
petals you can even press down on the
edges.
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Put some glue at the base of the flower
and press it.
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For stem for the flower, slightly angle the
end of a floral cloth wire and place it with
a dot of hot glue. You can cover the
exposed wire with a small piece of
newspaper.
Make around 20-30 flowers the same
way, then Bunch them together and then
use one of the cloth wires to wrap around
the stems. Trim the ends from the wires
using scissors.
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Wrap the flowers with a ribbon and
secure it with glue.
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Your bouquet is ready.
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Make A Clock From
Newspaper
What all you need is newspapers, glue,
thread, and scissor, working battery of
clock, 2 hands (minute hand and hour
hand of clock)
First take a newspaper and make strips
from it.
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Now start rolling the newspaper strip in a
circle and keep adding glue to it, so that it
will stick to the previous layer and form a
circle like this:
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It will look like this once it is done
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In the similar manner, make 12 circled
strips of same size and place them in a
circular form like this
Now make numbers from paper strips in
the roman numbers like I, II, III, IV, etc up
to XII. And stick them onto each circle
strip you made. Also join each circled
strip tightly with each other using a
thread.
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Make one big stripped circled from the
newspaper like this:
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Now place a clock battery and hands in
this big circle.
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Place this big circle in the mid of 12
circles like this and your clock are ready:
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Weaving Baskets With
Newspaper
What all you need is - paper, stapler,
scissor
First take a paper and cut strips of equal
size and fold them in around 1 inch width.
Make similar strips in even numbers like
8, 16, 20, etc.
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Now on a table lay our 8 strips
horizontally and 8 strips vertically like
this:
Now build up the sides. Take a strip and
go around the sides as shown below in
the image:
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Keep about half of the 1 inch of the strip
to fold at the end.
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Keep building the strips as shown in
figure below:
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Use glue to fold the remaining part of the
strip, so that they don’t come out. And
your basket is ready.
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Make Tea Table From Tree
Stump
What you need is a tree stump, round
wooden top, flowers for
decoration, a vask, tea pot
Take a broken tree stump and make its
top surface balanced in a level
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Take a round wooden top
Place this wooden top on the tree stump
and your table is ready.
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You can put any decorative items on it, or
tea or coffee mug to use it.
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Make Snowman From Old
Socks
What all you need is cotton for Stuffing,
old Socks, Fabric Glue, ankle sock, and
craft foam, Card, Buttons or Sequins,
Ribbon, Felt
First take an ankle sock and cut it into
two halves as shown in figure:
Now we will do Stuffing of the Sock, for
that takes ankle sock. But before that cut
a circle out of card and put it into the toe
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of the sock. Now Stuff the sock up to the
heel.
Now tie the sock where you have stuffed
up to. Then cut off the excess, and try to
cut as close to the knot as possible.
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Take a ribbon and tie it around the sock
such that it looks like a scarf is tied in the
neck of snowman. And Put the baby sock
onto the top of the body of the snowman
making it look like a hat.
For final touch you can use buttons to
make eyes and nose and your snowman is
ready.
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Use Old Wine Or Beer Empty
Bottles
What all you need is empty bottles,
rust oleum spray paint of different
types like bronze, copper, metallic
Take empty bottles and wash them
properly
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Now take the spray paint cans, and spray
on the bottles the color you want like this
Let the paint dry before using some fine
steel wool to rub gently over the finished
paint. Rubbing is necessary in order to
make the finish look aged and antique.
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Your painted recycled bottles will be
ready
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Book Clock Table Number
What all you need is a book, pencil,
eraser, bowl, colors, clock hands,
photos, pen
First take a book on which you want to
create a clock. You can also take a vintage
book if you have, that will look better.
Now on the front cover trace a circle for
where your numbers will be placed. Do
this with a pencil so that you can erase
the marks afterwards. To make a perfect
circle you can use a bowl.
With a pencil mark where you want to
display the numbers on the book cover.
And place the numbers from 1 to 12 with
the help of glue on the book cover.
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Now Measure the center part of the clock
face and mark it with a pencil. Put a small
dot at the center on your mark and press
down the bigger of the two clock hands.
After, super glue as necessary to adhere
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the shorter hand. Press down firmly until
it’s dry.
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To make your book look unique, you can
do one thing - Glue some of the first 10
pages together so that when you set the
book upright, the pages will not spread
out so much and then you can paste some
beautiful old memories photos in the
inside pages of book.
Also you can give it as a gift to someone,
so on the front page you can write To -
Your Friend’s Name and at the back end
page you can write, From- Your name.
And your present is ready.
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Comic Book Coasters
What you need is - four 4 x 4 tiles,″ ″
Mod Podge, Clear spray acrylic sealer,
Comic books, scissors, craft glue, a
paintbrush and felt
First take comic book and cut the images
of your favorite characters from it, but
just take care that images you cut should
be of size 3.5"x3.5" so that it can be easily
fitted to 4"x4" coasters.
Cover the backside of your images in craft
glue, and place them on each tile.
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Now with a spray acrylic, give each tile a
quick spray coat and let it dry for 15
minutes. It will keep images nice and
smooth and sealed for mod podging.
Using your paintbrush, paint on a thin
layer of the tiles. Try to coat the tile as
evenly as possible. Let it dry and Repeat
the process 2-3 times, letting each layer
dry thoroughly in between layers.
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Here are your comic coasters ready
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