I came upon this rolling bar made out of a vintage trunk the other day. It looks like there was once a tutorial for the project but it doesn’t exist anymore, but I found an approximation here.

Vintage trunks show up with surprising frequency if you keep your eyes open. This is an awesome way to put one to good use.

Unconsumption points out a use for old chairs: turn them into swings. Looks like all it takes is taking the legs off the chairs, painting it, and attaching the rope.

Peppertowne had a similar idea. Different chair, equally whimsical results:

I love this idea from Rosebud’s Cottage: turn an old globe into a pendant light.

This would be so easy to make and such a cool use of an old globe. All it would take is cutting the globe in half (sometimes they just unscrew) and attaching it as a shade to a pendant light. Brilliant. [Unconsumption]

Tis the season for organizing. I spent a couple of hours yesterday organizing my office, and I have three rooms still to go. Yikes.

Anyway, you could buy your storage bins in the store, or you could make your own. Case in point, Awesome Sauce & Asshattery has a post on turning old diaper boxes into storage bins. All it takes is cutting the boxes up, gluing them together, and then covering with paper or other decorative material.

I especially like that since you are making your own storage bin, you can shape it to fit any of your organizing needs. I just got a big box yesterday, so I might give this a try.

These Reclaimed Wonderland glasses from Birkiland are tea cups attached to the stems of wine glasses. This wacky design can be used for tea OR wine, so you see they are really great multitaskers for your entertaining needs.

For some reason, these glasses costs $50 each, but you know what? They remind me of the Christmas cake plates I mentioned in the 10 Fast DIY Christmas gifts, which are half plates and candlestick holders that have been glued together.

I wonder if you could take a similar approach with this idea. Hmmm… [re-nest]

A spiffy idea from Recyclart: make a wine rack from recycled tin cans. You simply paint the tin cans and then glue them into this beehive-like shape. The tin cans need to be 3 inches in diameter to fit wine bottles and 4 inches for champagne bottles.

No word on how sturdy this wine rack is, but it looks pretty cool.

Lines Across My Face took the scribbles her baby daughter made and turned them into nifty gift bows. She has a tutorial on her blog on how you can do the same.

While it usually doesn’t make financial sense to make gift bows–you can buy a bag of them for less than a dollar and reuse them year after year–in this case, this is a great way to give the gift of the baby’s early “artwork” along with the present. [Recycled Crafts]

Here’s a great project from Curbly: turn a filing cabinet into a rolling kitchen cart. Chrisjob took an old filing cabinet and added wheels, a butcher block top, and towel racks on the side. He even painted it a spiffy shade of blue.

Since kitchen carts are often the wrong size, this is a great way to customize one the way you want. File cabinets are regularly available in thrift stores, too. [Apartment Therapy]

Make has instructions to turn a wooden cigar box into a guitar. There’s also a video going over the project:

So with some wood, tools, nylon string, eye bolts, and a cigar box, you can make a three-string guitar that actually plays. The problem is, I’m not convinced this thing plays very well.

However, this project is a great way to make a toy guitar for cheap. If a child is interested in music, you could give him one of these first before investing in a real guitar. Sometimes you have to see if the interest is really there …

Of course, this is just scratching the surface on cigar-box cigars. Some of them are pretty neat. For more information, click here.

Daniel Hepper took old soda bottles and turned them into a Pac-Man ghost lamp. The project is pretty straight-forward: cut the bottles into ghost shapes, paint them, and hang them on a lamp.

Geeky and cute. [Craft]