What You Can Do With Old Or Unpaired Socks
by Cecile Cinco
What do you do with your old socks? Too old that they are no longer presentable, either white is no longer white or the garter that makes the sock hold on to your skin no longer does. Sometimes, you cannot find the other, leaving you an unpaired, lonely sock. The problem is, Continue reading »
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Recycled | Comments (5)For Ladies Only: Mrs. McGyver’s Half Slip
by Cecile Cinco
What if, for one reason or another, you needed a half slip now and for one reason or another you can’t buy one nor borrow?
Well, as long as you get access to an old t-shirt and pair of scissors, that would not be a problem at all.
This works because I’m actually loving using it myself. Besides, Continue reading »
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How-To/Tutorial, Recycled | Comments (2)How To Recycle Your Cooking Oil That Is No Longer Fit For Food Plus Complete Olympic Stats From 1920-2008
by Cecile Cinco
Do you cook? Sometimes, if not always, you will get yourself into cooking deep fried fries or chicken, or whatever. I mean, you would use some amount of oil more than usual. Deep fries tend to use a lot of cooking oil right away and you would want to use that oil after it has been used for cooking. Sometimes, another fried dinner will get back that same oil to the pan.
What if you can no longer use it for cooking because it has turned brownish and when you were not careful enough, it could be that it’s no longer brownish, but blackish instead…and you have a gallon of it!
With the dropping dollar, you might be into some frugal mania festival. Being almost always in the needy and scout (resourceful) state, I’ve learned to use that black oil.
Turn it into light!
Rather, make it fuel to give you light. You can use it when you get power outage or if you just want to save some money. It’s surely environmental safe and it does not make your nose blackish, unlike candles.
What you need:
- steeping container like tin can or jar
- strip of cotton cloth
- empty bottle with tin cap
- used oil
What to do:
1. Steep oil for about 5 days in a tin can or jar.
2. Transfer to another container. If it fits the bottle with tin cap, then pour it there. Be careful, don’t include any steeped “trash” that sank at the bottom of the first container.
3. Make a wick out of a strip of cotton cloth (could be the hem of an old shirt). Make sure when
you make a twine that the total length will be more than the height of the bottle.
4. Hammer a hole with a nail through the cap of the bottle. One in the middle (wick hole) and four around (breathing holes).
5. Insert the wick cloth through the hole from inside towards the top of the cap.
6. Get the rest of the wick inside the bottle to get it wet with the oil. Make sure to wet the top wick also–very wet with oil.
7. Close the cap.
8. Lit the wick.
You now have an emergency light that is not chemically dangerous and does not cost electric power and made use of your trash oil.
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How-To/Tutorial, Olympics, Recycled, Saving Tips | Comments (22)Nescafe Sachets Turned Into Snake
by Cecile Cinco
I promised the kids to put this on their site Kids Are Crafting, which is still under renovation. And why not? They were the ones who made this snake. I just taught them what to do with each sachet, how to fold it and what it can turn into. I just want to display it now because it’s really new. 
Maybe I can do some practical joke with it and place them in the shower of some apogee condo south beach units. 
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Crafts, Recycled | Comments (4)How To Recycle Your Old Newspaper To Make Your Own Charcoal
by Cecile Cinco
Oftentimes, the trash that we have the most is used paper. It can be in the form of newspaper, old notebooks, newsprint magazines (separate the glossy paper), manila paper, etc…
What can you do with that lot?
The following instructions will teach you how to make your own charcoal, to make use of your old newspaper and other trashy paper stuff. It is best to do this during summer when the heat of the sun is strongest…and store away in preparation for a rainy day…or when you run out of LPG. Continue reading »
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How-To/Tutorial, Recycled, Saving Tips | Comments (11)Welcome!
by Cecile Cinco
This is basically a craft blog and store at the same time.
I am a crafter in my own right. 99% of my crafts are original and each has no replica because I craft direct from how I perceive it in my imagination to the creation. I am no pattern-maker so I have no pattern for whatever I have created. Also, since I am a recycler, most of my creations are from recycled stuff like juice foils, tetra packs, noodle packs, coffee sachets, tarpaulins, etc…which are detrimental to our environment if we just burn them up. So I design something useful…functional…so that instead of adding to the incinerator, it will still continue to do service to the globe and its inhabitants to make it better by not making it worse.
Having been involved with the Talitha Foundation, I have tried to teach its beneficiaries some of the stuff I make for them to have extra income. Their living conditions are worse. Every money then can earn is an opportunity they will grab. Although we have tried to export, those helping us can no longer do. The Foundation being broke, with too much personal expenses and love from its founder, Ofelia Pantino, the exporting Continue reading »
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