i - Inventiveness

Forgive me while I rave about some of these genius hand made accessories for the many iToys we use and play with every day of our lives! 

There are some very cool and nifty docking station devices at Etsy, some so uniquely different I just have to share them with you today!

Take this nifty 50's unique idea! 

Roberto of  LaboratorioAltieri  took an old 1950's camera and turned it into the coolest iPhone 5 Docking Station, oh, if only I knew what I was doing when I threw away 5 of these old cameras from the Estate I am administering!!!  Those puppies actually went out the door for a song and here is this unique article old and no longer in use as a camera being turned into something so useful and appealing.  

Hairqueen48 actually has made a multiple use docking station for your iToys!  Everything being charged and kept all in one place when not in use, a complex and novel idea and very neat and tidy.  I just love the lamp attached to it too!

I have totally fallen in love with this colorful and novel piece, a portable bluetooth wireless speaker from a very old and discarded radio!  Wow a great deal of workmanship went into this piece!  Isn't it just super?  I never realized technology could look so attractive!

This is from BoscaBosca really a piece for those tech loving men, a radical useful techno tool now even outside it works, fantastic novel idea and once this is something that was made from recycled materials...

From FitzWoodys this one is totally my style!  This is so me, the person who must have control and has everything you use everyday in one place!   The type of item for someone like me who really needs to see everything in one place or it becomes a forgotten item.   This is absolutely perfect!  You can also ask for a Custom order, bet you you'd like it in another color, right?

Ohhhhhhhh I found the perfect docking work station ever!  It would suit so many people I know!  This is from the lexioshop!  I could have this one for myself also, I mean there is nothing better after a long day at work to be able to crawl into bed and relax and be hooked up in comfort!  Nothing for you to have to hang onto and you can do something else while still being totally connected to the outside world, to the internet and even do your crossword all in the comfort of the sitting position!  I have an acquaintance who has just had surgery and will be immobile for some time to come, how useful is this for that individual?  Save having to rent one of those slimline hospital tables with legs that constantly get tripped over.  

This is an excellent piece of not in your way equipment for those who are bed -ridden as well.  Maybe you know someone other than yourself who could make good use of this and this would make such a wonderful inexpensive gift to give. 

There are some very talented and skilled crafts people at Etsy, their inventiveness is phenomenal.   It never ceases to amaze me how some people can conceive of an idea and voila it appears and others, such as a person like me wonders why they never thought of it before!

NEW LIFE - NEW PURPOSE

With the arrival in my modest mobile home of another person I soon had to develop a more stringent outlook to the storing of personal belongings. How to do this in an environment already tightly crammed with "stuff" makes one become more inventive, but how to do this was giving me a huge headache!  

So I have turned to the inventive entrepreneurs who seem well equipped and armed with fantastic ideas on how to re-purpose something from the past which seemingly was left behind or thrown away and change the way I thought by making some someone, somewhere thought no longer needed and turn it back to being useful and productive once again. 

TAKE Modernarchaeology1  wow what nifty storage solutions and recycling ideas this shop owner has!   These units can be had one by one or a multiple of units to make this type of storage possible and very reasonably priced for the budget conscious consumer.  

THIS old locker from RusticRealm is just the ticket for additional storage in that it is made from metal, it has 6 clear door fronts to each compartment making for a good visual and its depth can accommodate many personal items in a bathroom, or, a students bedroom, a sewing room, evening in the mudroom!  If your not into the industrial look of this type of cabinet a coat of metal paint will certainly make it look attractive in any space you've designated it's usefulness to serve!  I love it, it is tall and narrow with a large re-purpose factor going and it would fit right into my tiny home!

 Truthfully I never considered industrial cabinetry as having a place in a home, however over the past twenty years the notion of industrial has become innovative and "old" industrial metals such as what this cabinet is made of really makes sense. 

Again, a coat of metal rust proofing paint will make this useful cabinetry fit in any pace and take a look at the space it has.  I could use this as a cupboard to store my preserves and canned goods in, or, to hold fabrics in my sewing area, even in the computer room or area.  It would hold a the actual computer hardware, printer, paper, ink cartridges, software, test books, manuals, in a computer area alone. There are a multitude of ideas which come to mind in which this type of cabinet may be made useful once again.  Thanks to ModonMain this now has the opportunity to serve a new purpose as well as being reasonably priced!

I don't know about your kitchen, but many seniors as well as couples, singles, students live in downsized units and there is never enough kitchen storage for the way we live.  When I saw this unobtrusive sized wall unit I thought how it would serve my purposes in my tiny bathroom.  It would hold a variety of items a bathroom is always inundated with and free up additional space in my vanity shelving as I simply do not have drawers and this little cabinet would serve a very important purpose for the way my home is set up. 
When Etsy shopping I spied this perfect sized unit.  With it being made of a heavier gauge of plastic it would really withstand the humidity of a bathroom during showers and bath times!

You can see it at öpping!

It makes sense to reuse items and keeping them from landfill is agreeable to me as well as being inexpensive solutions to storage problems.  These units of the past will serve you and others for years to come and by re-purposing your also becoming an environmentalist and making a difference to our precious planet.

Today is the last Saturday before the commencement of school here in my area so while my student is off on her very first shopping expedition in Canada I am off to catch up on my reading. 



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