My long time readers know that I have an addiction to magazines. I have shared several ideas on how I recycle them and what do you know? I have yet another one!

This was definitely a fun project, one that the whole family got involved in, along with a few friends that dropped by. Some of you wonder how I find time to do all my crafts and make all my own cleaners? Well, this is how. I never stop doing something.

When my friends dropped by to chat, I sat there and folded magazine pages and rolling them. Eventually they decided to help out. I had didn’t even have to bribe them with cake.

I do have to warn you, Nutmeg, this project ranks up there somewhere near the grating soap incident of 2007. While it does take time, it is fun, dangerous (hot glue gun involved!) and would make a great gift.

I got this idea and directions from A Little Hut, so much props and respect to Patricia.

To start, you go to your freezer and grab some magazines. Next you rip out some pages. Take a page and fold in half.

Continue to fold the page in half, four more times until you have a long, thin strip left.

After you have your page like this, you curl it around a pencil, a chopstick or anything else similar you have laying around.

Then you take the hot glue gun and apply a thin strip securing the rolled magazine strip in a tight coil. I found that the tighter you could get the strips together, the firm and more durable the bowl will be. To achieve this, I pressed down on the coil by rolling the bottom of the bowl sideways.

To attach one strip to the next, you take the first coil end (with the raw edge facing upward) and insert the second strip with a little glue.

Once you have a base as big as you would like, you continue to roll and apply strip after strip and begin to layer the strips about half way up on top of the next row.

Once you get the bowl the size you would like to be, flip the magazine strips and put the raw edge down. Complete one entire rotation, finishing off the top.

Ta-dah! You are finished. As you can see, I used my bowl for a planter. Simply slip a plastic liner or a large recycled glass jar and you are good to go!

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