Mason Jars into Elegant Garden Lanterns

Mason jars work great as upcycling material: they look pretty (no need for extra decor) and are rather thick and reliable (they aren't even afraid of open fire).

Here's a detailed tutorial on creating stylish mason jar lanterns to decorate your garden.

You will need:

• 1 pint or ½ pint mason jars
• 2-2 ½ feet of bailing wire per lantern
• Sand
• Votive or tea light candles

Tools:

• Pencil
• Wire cutters
• Needle Nose Pliers

More cool DIY ideas for garden lanterns

• DIY Metal Cans Garden Laterns
• How to Make Recycled Wine Bottle Torch

Plastic Bottle into a Bird Feeder

Bird feeders are always fun to make as you can easily enroll your kids into the process. It is awesome to watch birds coming and it also teaches your children to care for the Nature (which, in turn, makes them kinder, more responsible and eco-conscious).

Here are a couple of nice-looking useful and smart ways to re-use your old plastic bottles into bird-feeders:

1) For this one, apart from a large plastic bottle, you will also need two wooden spoons that work as actual feeders. The wholes above the spoons will let bird seeds out, but not too much:

2) I fell in love with this one: the roof looks fantastic! And your kids will love the idea of "Welcome home" message. It must really feel at home there:

Recycle Old-Fashioned Belts into a Garden Chair

If you have an old lawn chair that is already too old to offer your barbecue guests to sit on it, here's a great idea to renovate it: use your old forgotten western belts as webbing for the tired chair.



Breathe new life into your backyard chair!

Plastic Bottles into Upside Down Herb Planters

If you love planting and adore original designs and ideas, you will find this idea simply awesome! Plant herbs upside down and use old plastic bottles for this!

• These save plenty of space;
• They look amazing and fun (your guests and friends will love it!)
• That's an awesome way to reuse old plastic bottles.

Here's the detailed instruction as well as another way to implement the idea.

More ways to re-use those plastic bottles:

• Recycle a Plastic Bottle into a Box
• Plastic Bottle Sand Watch
• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• Plastic Bottle Candle Holder
• Sandals for the Beach Made of Plastic Bottles

Light Bulb into a Mini Green House

If you are into in-house planting, you'll love this fun idea: turn a light bulb into a tiny greenhouse.
Here's the detailed instruction (and make sure to look though the comments as well).

I am not sure what happens if / when a plant outgrows the bulb - but I guess there's a way to find a really tiny plant for it to grow inside for a long time.

Ideas?

Here are a few interesting takeaways from the comments:

• Will the plant need air?
  
  If you give the plants an airtight house, you create a mini ecosystem and the water that's inside will eventually evaporate to the top, condensate on the glass, and fall back down like rain.  It will keep doing that over and over, and you end up hardly ever having to water
• Do the plant grow, and does it stop growing?
  
  The plants don't really grow much- a little bit, but they have stayed small enough to not outgrow the terrarium.  A few of the little fern babies have doubled or tripled in size over the course of many months, but they were very tiny to begin with.

More plants in a bulb:

 

More greenhouse and planting gadgets:

• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• A CD Case into Garden Cloche

Vinyl Record Covers into a Box

We have had quite few DIY ideas on how to recycle vinyl records including several projects in upcycling them into check bags and purses (Stylish vinyl records purse and cool vinyl records bags) as well as other, more creative ideas (like cool vinyl records bags and vinyl record into a cool necklace).

But how about the vinyl record covers we all store at home? How can we reuse them as well?

Here's a fun and very useful idea: vinyl record cover box (find the full tutorial here).

Gotta love the stylish design that would make a perfect match into a retro interior! And it looks like a useful storage utility too! On top of all, it looks easy to do and is absolutely free.

Thanks to Kate of Silver Prices Today for sending this cool tip!

Wine Bottle into the Garden Borders

If you like gardening and recycling, I am sure you are always looking for new creative ways to combine the two.

Here's an awesome tip for you: use wine bottles as borders and edges: this looks nice and is 100% eco-friendly. They can be arranged in a pretty way and they will never get old: will last as long as they want to keep them in the garden.

You may enroll you whole neighborhood into collecting the bottles. This should be fun!

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More ideas on recycling wine bottles:

• Wine Bottle Chandelier
• Wine Bottle Torch

More gardening DIY projects:

• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• A CD Case into Garden Cloche
• DIY Metal Cans Garden Laterns
• Skateboard Table for Your Garden
• Solar Powered CD-Case Bricks