Reading Time: 7 minutesAre you looking round your house and feel it needs a complete overhaul? Or, have you found your ‘forever’ house, but, it needs a lot of work? You may think it’ll break the bank, but frugal and zero waste house renovation tactics might be the answer. Not only that, but these tend to be ways […]
Recycling and Repurposing
Greetings Cards from Repurposed Materials: Five ways
Reading Time: 5 minutesMaking your own greetings cards can be fun, creative, and a way to send cards that strike a cord with your friend or family’s likes and tastes. Here are five ways to make greetings cards from repurposed materials. Your card making can be sustainable and will cost very few pence/cents. These are not exactly high […]
Clothes From Scraps: Zero Waste Clothes
Reading Time: 7 minutesZero Waste Week has had me thinking about many aspects of zero waste. My focus has recently been on the waste and pollution associated with clothes. Now, fabric, trimmings and yarn waste, and the idea of making clothes from scraps, is my focus. Fabric waste, in particular, is a huge problem for the fashion industry, and […]
Sustainable Life: Everything Has to Come From Somewhere
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen I see advice on how to live a sustainable life, the words everything has to come from somewhere always come to mind. It’s something I find I keep saying to myself. We can so easily be seduced by a new ‘sustainable’ product, forgetting that it still has to come from somewhere. Perhaps sometimes there […]
New From Old: Recycle Your Greetings Cards Into Next Year’s Cards and Gift Tags
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever thought to recycle your greetings cards? You will probably have seen enough of Christmas cards, once Twelfth Night has gone and you have taken them all down. Before you throw them into the recycling bin you might want to look a little carefully at them. For they have the potential to become […]
Flea Fairs For Vintage Fabric
Reading Time: 3 minutesFlea Fairs for vintage fabric are my latest find. Recently, I went to the Malvern Flea Fair (my nearest flea market) and came home with two pieces of charming fabric. One was a vintage tartan, and one was a cotton fabric of – I don’t know what age – but I liked it. I frequent […]
