Recycle bottles and jars into special accents for your home.

It's easy to create this beautiful accent table with the Armour bottle and jar cutter and Pinata Paints!


Using the Bottle and Jar cutter, you can create some beautiful and unique decorator pieces for your home that will be one of a kind.

For this table. I cut off three wine bottles at different heights and glued them together to form the stand. The bottom piece is a glass cake stand turned upside down. I then sprayed the stand with Krylon webbing spray.

For the table top, I Purchased a 24” round glass table top at Target store. Piñata paints were used to paint the table top. A very quick and easy project!

The Bottle Cutter and Pinata Paints can be found on the Open Stock page of MarleneWatson.com.

recycle empty cereal boxes into special gift boxes

Recycle your empty cereal boxes into an exciting and inexpensive way to create a special box in the size and shape you want.

Using cereal boxes, poster board or the cardboard pieces that come inside clothing, you can find many things to use for the box blanks.

All you need to create boxes is the Box Making tool available from http://www.boxcrafting.com/.


You can recycle just about anything into a great box. Turn a special greeting card into an elegant keepsake box and transform a cereal box into a fun gift for a child.



You can cover the box blank with fabric, decoupage paper, napkins, wrapping paper or even paint your personal design to make a box that is unique and one of a kind.

Create a wedding cake design for a wedding reception table by Making 5 or 6 boxes in graduated sizes and glue together in a stack. Place a pretty bow on top or cut a slit in the top to insert cards.

Crafting and recycling

Crafting has always been a big part of my life and I love to recycle products into useful and decorative projects.

One of my favorite products to recycle are brown grocery bags.


Cut the bags apart to make each one flat. Then glue several layers together. If you glue enough layers together you can create a sturdy piece much like a piece of wood. I've found that the best glue to use is Aleene's Tacky glue. Let the glued together bags dry over night. Now you can trace patterns onto the dried bags and paint them like you would paint a piece of wood. Cut the design out with scissors. Paint with acrylics or oil paints and apply a finish over the dry paint.

Check out the patterns section of my web site, MarleneWatson.com, to see a completed seascape set I made for my bathroom. Have fun!