Upcycling workshop 2020

Today I attended the upcycling workshop at NochMall GmbH - https://www.nochmall.de.

Prologue
NochMall GmbH is a small company of Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe Aö. NochMall GmbH is a second hand department store (Gebrauchtwarenkaufhaus). They just opened it recently on 8 August 2020. I visited the store to know how it looks and what they offer. I find some products and most of the articles are in purchasable condition and quite clean. The next time i visited the store i attend the workshop "upcycling.

Instructor

The workshop upcycling is conducted by Safak Yüreklik. She has an online shop - https://en.diedrittehand.berlin/ where she sells upcycled products.

From the workshop there were several items repurposed to different uses. For example the pepper and other spices small bottles are repurposed as painting brush holders and for cleaning paint brushes.

In the workshop everyone was given a choice to pick up a product that they want to create or upcycle. I chose to upcycle a dishwasher gel bottle. The instructor gave us printed instructions to help us in the process and she was also explaining and showing how to use different tools. Below is the instruction sheet in German.

I marked the bottle with a black marker to cut it out to match with the finished product which is a small pocket holder bag - Etui.

In order to make the small pocket holder bag or Etui. I used a small driller and made holes at the bottle cap neck area in order to have space to keep the scissors to cut at a small distance close enough to the marked line on the bottle. After the initial cutting I did the second cutting on the marked line. After that I used a lighter to smooth the rough edges on the cut area. Then I used the hair dryer to make the bottle softer to bend and form a closing for the bottle. Next I drilled five holes.

one hole is for the button
two holes for the thread
two holes for the plastic wear to lock the bottle.

This is the finished product

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