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"I love to repurpose and salvage and reuse wherever I can."
"One is created using a teddy bear that I got at a thrift store and the other is made entirely from scrap fabric."
"The actual stuffed animal I'll be using is this circa 2011 number that appears to be a Walmart Valentine's Day castaway."
"The beauty of DIY is not just in creating something new but in giving new life to something old."
"The future belongs to upcycling methods and plastic-free materials such as mushroom and algae."
"Our packaging is completely recyclable and biodegradable... everything is upcycled and recycled."
"Forging hope out of hate. Turning spent bullet casings into jewelry."
"Reacting is easy, staying in stillness is difficult."
"I love the fact that I was able to just repurpose something and give something a new life."
"I love this, I love the way it looks, it's a great way to use up your scraps."
"It's so cool to see broken-down trucks salvaged for homes."
"I just love that you can take really inexpensive items and turn them into such high-end decor."
"We all should recycle our careers every once in a while. You're not starting from the bottom, you are recycling, you're upcycling."
"You need to deserve success, wealth, and health by vibrating at a higher level."
"I appreciate the upcycle and sustainability element."
"One man's trash is another man's treasure but one man's broken fan is another man's... lamp?"
"Repurpose an old table lamp and a tin can into a stylish desk lamp."
"Rather than let the beautiful wood go to waste, this crafty creator decided to convert their old baby grand piano into a bookshelf."
"I can probably say that eighty percent of the furniture in our home has been stuff that I have found in the dump and brought home and upcycled."
"This may not seem like upcycling but remember this started out as a box."
"Getting more comfortable with upcycling some of the items you already have... is a much more effective solution than just going out and replacing the item."
"Trading up: from crate items to painted treasures, the journey unfolds!"
"There's no better feeling than taking ordinary items and reorganizing them into something completely different."
"It's amazing what you can actually do if you upcycle and recycle things."
"My dad is the best, is that just the front of a car? Oh, he turned it into a grill, what? That's sick!"
"A quick coat of spray paint has totally transformed this fridge."
"Countless YouTubers have taken these discarded relics and transformed them into glorious pieces of furniture."
"If this is your hobby and you enjoy upcycling trash into something valuable, that's a triple win."
"One person’s trash is another person’s weekend project that spiraled out of control and turned into a years-long obsession."
"This was actually part of an old tablecloth that I used in my garden and actually I love the result."
"You can reuse and upcycle things you already have."
"I've taken discarded items from the trash and dump and turned them into incredible treasures."
"You can upcycle them and turn them into beautiful signs for your garden."
"I hope this video has sparked your creativity encouraged you to explore the potential of upcycling thrifted seasonal decor rather than contributing to the overflowing landfills with new purchases."
"I love the way that it turned out and I love it even more that I was able to upcycle an old front of a dresser drawer that was in the landfill."
"I get quite a few messages from people who tell me they want to upcycle clothes but they're nervous or they're scared... But I want to say, why so?"
"I think the upcycling is one of the best and easiest ways that we can help to both save money and also help the environment."
"I'll be showing you how to upcycle cheap and easy to find thrift store items into expensive looking vintage decor."
"This right here is just an old t-shirt and some scrap Fabrics."
"Trash to treasure with Jenny: making memories and masterpieces."
"Don't throw out doll heads you can turn them into handy night lights for your kids."
"Anytime you can upcycle an older item to use for your decor and costumes you're not only creating a one-of-a-kind creation but you're helping to keep all that waste out of landfills and helping the environment."
"Let's get creative and flip that trash to treasures."
"Unleashing the magic of upcycling, turning trash into treasure."
"Trash to Treasure makeovers: turning literal trash into stunning pieces."
"I love doing upcycling clothes because it really is creative and free-flowing."
"It's amazing how just a small touch-up can breathe new life into a thrift store treasure."
"Let's try to upcycle one item a day for a more sustainable future."
"Here's how I upcycled it: a beautiful spot to keep some of my potted plants."
"Don't forget that when you are thrifting. If you see a shape of something or a quality that you want in a sign but you don't like what's on it, go ahead and pick it up because you can turn it into whatever you want."
"I hope this encourages you to upcycle some of the things you already own and to keep your closets sustainable and fun and expressive."
"I love to upcycle clothes, purses, accessories... and turn them into one-of-a-kind wearable art."
"I love to upcycle clothes and turn ordinary thrifted items into beautiful artsy pieces of clothing."
"...I hope that I have inspired you to upcycle and reuse, especially nowadays when a lot of things are being ordered online and they come in shipping boxes."
"I recently thrifted this old tin tile and wanted to do something different with it."
"I did it all by using just the thrown away Furniture I found."
"I'm always looking for ways to upcycle and use items that already exist to turn into new things."
"...it's always refreshing to find an item that has been made out of vintage silver almond heirloom silverware has created some amazing things"
"I pretty much take old busted, discarded unwanted furniture and try to turn it into something cool, unique, and buffed out."
"So for this particular project think ugly vases that you have or that you see, you know in the dollar store or in your local thrift store so ugly vases could be made to look beautiful."
"Try and give them a new lease of life if you can. Do not just automatically throw everything in the bin."
"You can make it from basically the first junk journals were made from junk."
"I love to take secondhand pre-loved items and make them over."
"I just love taking unwanted, unloved, outdated items and just giving them new life."
"A true Trash to Treasure in my opinion and a really gorgeous piece of home decor."
"The one thing these all have in common is they were made very inexpensively with upcycled pre-owned thrifted items."
"My love for upcycling and old things only heightened and only got bigger."
"I love to take secondhand finds and make them over for you all and share the process with what I do to each and every one of the items."
"Transform discarded items into beautiful and functional pieces."
"That's the thing with upcycling, you change its purpose, you change its function."
"Love it even more that I was able to upcycle."
"Let's be good, you guys. Upcycle and support your local thrift stores."
"Welcome back to Upcycle by Tito, where I take all forgotten items and give them a new life."
"I'm gonna be doing a challenge video today where my friends get to pick out what I upcycle and I have absolutely no say in what they choose."
"I want to show y'all another little mirror that I picked up at the thrift store... and this is how easy it was to upcycle a small little mirror."
"A retro gas stove grate can also turn into a beautiful panel that will decorate your interior. Glue the edges together to create a grid, then wrap the grid around with string lights and enjoy your decor."
"Trash to Treasure: Transforming everyday items into shabby sweetness."
"Don't throw out dollheads, you can turn them into candy night lights for your kids."
"Everyone needs to know about upcycling, let them know."
"You can take just your discard boxes, leftover paper scraps, whatever junk and turn them into your own custom handmade buttons."
"And who would have thought that tuna cans could be so cute?"
"Everything here was rescued out of the recycling bin and given a new life."
"So what did y'all think about those transformations? Do you love how I upcycled these cabinet doors?"
"Upcycling is a lot about improvising, engineering a little, art a little bit of everything."
"And I just kind of styled my tin can pumpkin pads with one of my hand-lettered signs. I love it so much, and it's just amazing that we can make cute home decor just with some recycled items from our pantry."
"It's just such an easy method to upcycle some of your old furniture."
"Transform junk and turn it into home decor."
"I love me a good thrift flip project."
"You can grow flowers from your fabric stash!"
"Turning real Trash to Treasure, it's so rewarding, and it's good for the planet."
"Make something beautiful out of just small scraps that you have saved."
"You see how I just kind of laid the papers? These are the strips that were left over and ended up making a card, so that's just another idea that you can do."
"I think it turned out so beautiful what a great way to use this glass as well as the Butterflies from Dollar Tree and it's the thrifted item I didn't spend much"
"How fun is it that we were able to take those leftover Christmas signs... and turn them into a gorgeous decor piece that you can enjoy all year?"
"I just love repurposing anything and just sort of making things from other things."
"You can get really creative with this and use different colored glass or broken pieces of glass."
"It just amazes me how these plain old items are just being transformed into some amazing home decor."
"Handmade vinyl record bowls, perfect for cereal."
"Chairs and tables made from a damaged bathtub, creativity at its best."
"This big old light bulb... I think it's going to be a fun project to work on to gut this light bulb and make it into a terrarium."
"This is a great use for scraps that you might have sitting around that are too good to throw away."
"Upcycling is a great way to start."
"You find things on the side of the road or buy them on Craigslist and you just kind of rebuild them in the way that you want."
"This is a cool idea. I'll tell her about it, and if for some reason it does die, a woodworker could make a piece of furniture from the old tree."
"So hopefully this will just give some of you some inspiration and some ideas on what you can do with the scraps from that collection."
"I really love that you can just use your scraps, use your leftovers, and make something out of nothing."
"Don't you just love using basic supplies you can find around the house or easily at a garage sale or a thrift shop and turn it into something amazing?"
"There is something very therapeutic about upcycling things."
"I love love love the way this turned out, the brightness, the freshness, so beautiful, and we used cans."
"I love it, we used a can and it cannot look any more beautiful."
"I love to take secondhand finds, thrift finds, things that others might throw in the trash, and make them over here on the channel."
"I love that they are turning old things into brand new beautiful things; that's just so awesome."
"Baskets are readily available and super cheap at the thrift store, but instead of using them for home decor and storage, I decided to turn one into a bird house."
"Welcome back to my channel, some of you may already know how much I love making things from upcycled clothing."
"I'm going to show you how to upcycle glass jars into beautiful works of art."
"Upcycling is a key part of all those advantages."
"I hope you got lots of inspiration for creating beautiful home decor using common thrift store items."
"I've always been fascinated by the amount of creativity these creators use to see everyday items and even trash and turn it into something amazing."
"My ultimate creative goal is to make upcycling a more popular thing, to be able to show the potential of waste."
"You're actually using what you've already got and just exposing the beauty of it."
"You guys know that I love a good DIY, a good thrift flip to get that high-end luxe look for less."
"I am so happy with how this upcycle turned out."
"I love giving new life to old discarded items and finding unique vintage pieces that add character and charm to our home."
"To be able to use some of that up and make it into really cute home decor is some of my absolute favorite things to do."
"We got some rusty crusty kitchen items that are always great to make into the cutest little Christmas display."
"I got this piece for free from a picker who goes into houses and gets stuff out for estate sales, and he actually no place would take the Salvation Army wouldn't take this, but I was like let me try to give it new life before you throw it out."
"Thank you for joining me, I'm Tracy, and this is an upcycling DIY channel."
"Farmhouse decor is my specialty, so I love to take Dollar Tree items and turn them into extremely high-end farmhouse decor and much more."
"Finding stuff at the thrift store is the art of seeing what it can be, not what it is."
"I love to take trash, treasure, junk, second-hand items and make them over and share the process with you all of what I do to these items to give them new life."
"I upcycle clothes. I love to make fun, edgy pieces out of thrifted finds."
"I love to upcycle clothes and turn unwanted discarded items into beautiful, fun, whimsical pieces again."
"I absolutely love upcycling and refashioning, and basically turning things into other things to wear and use."
"It's not a case of throwing things away; I want to inspire them to reuse, revamp, and add to what's already here."
"Customizing the fit of a hoodie is a great place to start if you're new to upcycling."
"I am super excited because we are getting back to doing some more extreme type upcycles."
"I have a passion for upcycling clothing."
"We're literally taking waste that would end up in a landfill and creating something beautiful and useful for your home."
"Glass really, while we don't not want to recycle it, we definitely want to recycle it, better than that honestly is upcycling, repurposing, and reusing that glass."
"I love to go treasure hunting, I love to look for secondhand pre-loved items not only to decorate my home with, to resell, but I also love to make items over."
"I also take outdated unwanted thrifted items and flip those items into beautiful home decor to sell in my retail booth."
"It just goes to show that you can easily take a piece of trash and turn it into something new and beautiful."
"It's action-packed with unique ways to upcycle some things you may already have around your home."
"This is a great way to take a book that you've thrifted... and update it to something that will look amazing in your home and your own decor style."
"Repurposing doors like this by re-paneling them is the sort of job that gets done at the corner of Repurpose Road and Dumpster Drive."
"So the goal for me is to take these dresses and remake them into something that I will actually love and wear."
"Isn't upcycling fun? You get to use your imagination, while taking less from nature."
"I hope I inspired you to number one make something beautiful and number two maybe use some old supplies that you already have."
"Together we pull our projects from the weeds, find them in chicken houses and junkyards with a purpose to rebuild and revive treasures people have thrown out as trash and forgotten."
"If I don't pay for the fabric that I get because it's been donated to me or it's fabric I've rescued, I don't charge for the fabric that I use in my bags."
"Shabby mixture using snippets and scraps to make them look beautiful."
"What I love to do is take secondhand finds and make them over."
"You can actually send them back your used up stashers and they're going to recycle or upcycle it into something else."
"I pretty much take busted old discarded unwanted furniture and turn it into something cool and unique and new."
"I've managed to make eight different crossbody bags out of two different swatch sample boards."
"What was a discarded hutch top has now become a freestanding super sweet country-style cabinet."
"Now I am here to show you how I take old furniture and give it a new purpose and a new life."
"I love the way you share with me some things that you have thrifted and how you've turned trash into treasure."
"I try not to buy anything that is new, so I like to buy things either upcycle or secondhand."
"You can turn clothes that you don't wear anymore and turn them into treasure."
"You take what you have and you make something out of it, and there's no junk."
"Next time you have an empty can, don't throw it out. Just remove the label, give it a good wash, and create a rustic vase."
"I like to take things people throw away and then upcycle them."
"This person said they made $115,000 in February alone from abandoned furniture."
"The goal of this challenge is to keep more items out of the landfill and turn them into something useful and give them a second life."
"I think it's so cute; I just love that this was made out of a chair."
"The best things our ability to take something that has a very little value and making into a valuable useful product."
"It's always good to salvage stuff. I like upcycling."
"We're upcycling that ingredient, saving it from a landfill, saving it from a wasteful process."
"This has got to be the most extreme upcycling or recycling the materials to do a house."
"I look at all the clearance jewelry and then I buy the clearance jewelry and I take it apart and I make all kinds of cool stuff."
"I love giving new life to cast-off flowers."
"We take junk that we thrift or get for free and we turn it into home decor."
"Would you believe if I told you that this was actually a plain envelope from the thrift store, and I altered it with a napkin?"
"One cabinet that was bound for the trash has been recycled into a showcase that will have all sorts of wonderful interesting watches inside of it."
"We are trying our best to get to 1 million subscribers, not so much to say that we have 1 million subscribers, but we just want to share the gift, the amazingness of upcycling, with everyone all over the world."
"I hope you enjoyed this Parisian inspired makeover and perhaps found a little upcycling inspiration for the upcoming gift giving season."
"I love to take pre-loved items and make them over for you all."
"When I deconstruct a new or old garment, I don't believe I am destroying him; it is a way of giving it a new life in another form."
"I like to take things I have around the house or items may be that I find on clearance somewhere and just doll them up."
"I get that feel-good factor from using my book pages and turning them into our little tagling journaling card."
"You have nice-looking wood left over from another project; you don't have enough of it to build something big with it, but you can mill it down and show it off in your little organizers."
"Something really fun that you can do is upcycle a pair of jeans."
"I love to take items that I found out in the wild, second hand, thrifted items and make them over, and share the process with you all."
"Transform ordinary items into extraordinary decor."
"I hope this inspires you to take some thrift store items and flip them for your home and yard."
"I'm so excited that we're upcycling this cereal box."
"I'm happy to take something that I wouldn't have used and make it into something that people go, 'Man, I really want that drum.'"
"I'm excited that you guys can make these with spare socks laying around your house. How about that? I think that's just the greatest thing ever."
"This is upcycle, this is recycling at its best."
"I plan to make into more of a mini skirt and then use the extra fabric to make a little cute top with."
"You've just transformed a fashion disaster into a funky, stylish masterpiece."
"Well with the superb help of EJ and Daniel, we've managed to salvage four unwanted items and give them a new lease of life and send some much-needed money to two very worthy charities."
"I've turned it into an umbrella; see, we use every part of a broken chair to make two new awesome things."
"This might be one of my favorite thrift flips of all time because it is so cool, it is a legit street lamp."
"This is her dad's old motocross gear which she's deconstructed and reconstructed into something beautiful and interesting to look at."
"I love making bags myself from upcycled things that I have about."
"I hate throwing things out. Absolutely everything in our home has been something old that I've turned into something new."
"I've turned that passion into a business, transforming items that nobody wants into things that I can sell for a profit."
"Let's not throw it away, let's make it beautiful."