You know how sometimes you have an idea and then you find out others have the same idea? Well, I have been saying for years (every time a palstic shopping bag ripped and my food fell all over the street) "You know, these bags, woven together, would actually be pretty strong!" It turns out that...

I do some of the first two things. I shop at Joann's clearance section and raid my mother's unused stash of fabric... and I also hit up thrift stores for things I can repurpose. One really cool thing to do at thrift stores is to look for knitted sweaters that can be unraveled. (You have to buy...