It’s Go Green Month at Sew Much Ado, and there are some great tutorials there for green creativity. Refashioned Tutorial: Toddler Ruffle Skirt – turn an adult t-shirt into a cute toddlers skirt. Jen’s Cloth Diapering and Doubler Tutuorial – make your own reusable nappies. There’s also a composting tutorial if you’ve been thinking about …
There are 50 all-time favourite new uses for old things over at Real Simple, like this toilet roll cord organiser and tomato sauce bottle pancake batter dispenser. I’ll add one of my own new things made from old toilet rolls. Take a look. 50 All-Time Favorite New Uses for Old Things [Real Simple] Recycled loo …
Becky Stern’s cool bike tube headband at Craft: is simple to make and a great way to use up punctured bike inner-tubes. We get through these in our family. Lots of thorns in South Africa. Bike Tube Headband [Craft:] [ad#adify]
A cool urban pool made by lining a dumpster. Brainchild of Macro/Sea. Dumpster pool [Recyclart] [ad#google]
I like this idea for an Easter egg receptacle. We’re going to be away from home this Easter and staying in a B&B, so this is a good idea for somewhere for the Easter Bunny to leave eggs for the children. It’s messy and a great kids’ craft and it’s made of stuff that is …
Being green can have everything to do with saving money, which is why I love shopping at second-hand shops. There are charity shops, dress agencies and also the school second-hand shop for used school uniform. The internet is also a great place to pick up second-hand goodies, good places to start including Freecycle and Ebay. …
Here’s a head’s up on a new, exciting opportunity from the Sierra Club that could just be The Best Internship on Earth. One lucky young person will get to spend this summer travelling around the US to Sierra Club’s outdoor youth programs, including Inner City Outings, Volunteer Vacations, and Building Bridges to the Outdoors. The intern …
Marin Camille Hood has made a few really cool chandeliers out of old bicycles and bicycle bits. This is one of them. The rest of them are here. chandeliers [artwork by marin camille] Recycled works by Marin Hood [Recyclart] [ad#adify]
These are good looking tote bags from Olive & Myrtle. They’ve teamed up with San Francisco based Lab Partners on the Fruit & Veggie bag below (you can see their other two designs on the Olive & Myrtle website). I also really like the Olive & Myrtle in-house Endangered Species bag. The designs are silk …