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18 creative Designs Made out of Plastic Bag

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Plastic bag is always considered as a threat to environment. Hence some creative people just come up with some brilliant ideas to repuoposing plastic bag. Check following products, here are 18 creative objects made entirely from these evil fluttery pieces of grocery-carrying plastic. They may not be things we are all capable of making, but at least they are cool to look at.

inkuku by Ryan Frank [link]

Inkuku is a chair made entirely from plastic shopping bags combining traditional craft techniques and recycled material. The inspiration for the design has been taken from a South African crafted chicken ornament.

inkuku by Ryan Frank

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Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes

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Incredibly realistic scenes from rural life have been painstakingly recreated by a British artist in her own living room – using just a needle and thread.

This patient artist is Jill Draper, 62. She creates embroidered tapestries, recreating scenes with astonishing accuracy from photographs. Each picture measuring around 15 by 30 inches contains hundreds of thousands of stitches done by hand and machine.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
She picks from her thousands of colours of household cotton or Terylene and applies them with a sewing machine or darning hoop. She hand-sews special detail with pure silk. She sews for around six hours every day and relies on natural light to distinguish between the hundreds of similar shades.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
A photograph [left] taken in Autumn 2009 of a heather path, and Jill Draper’s hyper-real tapestry of the scene.

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Incredible Sophisticated Miniature Food Made of Clay

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I have been seen some delicate clay food model, but still got shocked when I saw photos in this post sent by my friend. These mini clay food is incredibly detailed and it must be a painstaking process to make one. They are so realistic that you might think they are real if there is no reference (coin) in the photos. They are not only realistic from outside but also inside. If you cut them in half, you still can see the distinctive texture belonging to that type of food.

Incredible Sophisticated Miniature Food Made of Clay

Incredible Sophisticated Miniature Food Made of Clay

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Handmade Flower Ring, So Lovely

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Handmade Flower Ring

Summer is a splendid season… you need something colorful to decorate yourself… How about a handmade flower ring. In this post, we will show you how to make a lovely flower ring step by step. OK, I admit… It is not as easy to make it as shown on the images. you need to be dexterous, patient and detailed (it is definitely not me…lol). But it is still an enjoyment to see the creation of such pretty ring.
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