Juice Carton Wallet

Here's one to leave your money smelling like oranges; rather than stinky cow hide.

Supplies:

orange juice carton

adhesive velcro

Tools:

hot glue gun and glue sticks

scissors

ruler/yard stick

paper scorer

1) Rinse and dry an empty juice carton. Open the carton carefully along glued down seams.

2) Cut and discard top and bottom flaps and two small side flaps.

3) Rescore carton's previous fold lines and score a new line vertically down the center.

4) Cut and discard negative areas (see picture for example).

5) Fold over along vertical seam and over along horizontal seams.

6) Using the hot glue gun, carefully glue down only the outside edges of the two end flaps.

Glue down only the right end of large center money flap.

7) Using adhesive velcro, attach a piece to each folded in end flap, and close together to secure.

Tip:Add money, ID and CCs and you're good to go. Reinforce scored and folded edges with clear packaging tape.

craft skill level: 3 out of 5

Why I Can't Just Put Out A Blue Recycling Bin

You may need the back story as to why I simply can't take my milk jugs, juice cartons, cereal boxes, sauce jars, and soup cans to the recycling center.

I, shockingly enough, do not live in a big city. I live in a town many people may have never even been to. For an area generalization, I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Where I live, recycling is not a "pick-up your bin on Tuesday" type of happening. Recycling is an option, where, if you choose to participate, you take all your separated items to a transfer station. Not such a crazy thing, I know, but what do you do when said transfer station decides to no longer accept recyclables.

Rather than drive over to Wisconsin and pretend to be a citizen in a town that may have a recycling drop off program, I decided to do what any normal, sane person would do. I will craft.

My goal is to reuse as many and as much of recyclable items as I can ( I'm thinking, roughly, one craft a day), and transform them into usable, hopefully visually appealing items. Some items may be something like, "Oh, I've seen that before." Some items may be, "Hey, I've done that before." But it'd kinda be special for both you and me if I come up with something not so ordinary, but very special. Get your scissors ready. Here's to crafting with purpose.