Upcycling gifts for Christmas

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Here are some inspirations to get creative for Christmas. Instead of buying new things (that are going to be wasted) we can just upcycle materials and get these beautiful results out of them:







The products are made by people who are part of the project StartUpcycling (Starkmacher e.V.).

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