The Best And Worst of DIY

I was just browsing the web looking for some new DIY projects to share and found two cool collections of homemade projects.

Top 10 DIY projects: This one from Lifehacker lists some great DIY alternatives of our favorite things.

Worst of DIY: this fun post lists some DIY stuff that actually shouldn't be homemade :)

Life Vests into Cool Bags

It is hard to imagine the situation that one has a couple of extra life vests but in case one does, here's a cool idea on how to recycle them: create a cool recycled DIY messenger bag.

Surely it does look nice and it actually took me a few minutes to understand what it is actually made of:

Plastic Straw Jewelry

The following jewelry items do not look as if they required huge effort to create. Just a bit of creativity and bright colorful drinking straws - and you have the whole set of fun bright jewelry:

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CD Room Divider

We've seen already a cool CD curtain that looks great reflecting the day light. Here's one more, pretty much similar way to re-use old CDs: a room divider.

And here's also a video to get you even more inspired:

Keyboard Rubik's Cube

If you are still wondering for the ways to re-use your dead keyboard this project will turn great fun.

A new face for your old rubik's cube + new rules to play!

More ways to reuse an old keyboard:

• Old Keyboard to Decorate Your T-Shirt
• Keyboard Pins
• Keyboard Rings
• Keyboard Belt

A fun mug lamp

If for any reason you don't need your old cup for mug, there is one fun way to recycle them: create a fun lamp (or even a chandelier) using them (I am not sure how difficult it is to make this but definitely looks like fun!)

Magazine Paper Photo Frame

We'v seen already two cool things you can do my simply grabbing colorful magazine paper and doing some fun with it: magazine bowl and magazine paper hotpad.

Here's one more brilliant idea: a magazine paper photo frame. One more reason to never throw your old magazines away: