{"id":12541,"date":"2011-04-27T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2011-04-27T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T08:15:13","slug":"reader-question-what-to-make-from-empty-keurig-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/2011\/04\/reader-question-what-to-make-from-empty-keurig-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Question:  What to Make from Empty Keurig Cups?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/keurig-cups.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12566\" title=\"keurig-cups\" src=\"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/keurig-cups.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Keurig coffee makers, they are a single-cup style of brewer that uses small cups of ground coffee with built-in filters for the brewing process.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a great solution for people who only want to brew a cup at a time, and while some models are compatible with a refillable filter cup, they are commonly used with disposable, single-use cups.<\/p>\n<p>DSC Reader Mae has been saving her empty Keurig cups, but isn&#8217;t sure what to do with them.\u00a0 I think they would look cute as little shades on a set of Christmas lights.\u00a0 What other crafty things can you make using the empty cups?<\/p>\n<p>[photo courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:K-Cup-Silo.gif\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Keurig coffee makers, they are a single-cup style of brewer that uses small cups of ground coffee with built-in filters for the brewing process.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a great solution for people who only want to brew a cup at a time, and while some models are compatible with a refillable filter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[58,2162,904,2161,1310],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-readers","tag-coffee","tag-coffee-cup","tag-questions","tag-reader-question","tag-recycled-crafts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reader Question: What to Make from Empty Keurig Cups? 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