Blog Posts - Recycling

Here is an easy last minute card or gift tag idea that helps bust your stash of decorative tapes and paper scraps, and diverts old book pages from the landfill. The use of classic holiday ornament shapes, allows you to successfully use non-holid...

DIY KEY RING I can’t believe Christmas is a week away!  In Australia, December is also the end of the school year and I have made it a tradition in our family that the boys gift something handmade to their teachers and daycare carers.  Christmas...

Don't you just love old fashioned Father Christmas decor?  Father Christmas ornaments always seemed a bit intimidating to me, so I never tried making them myself, until I discovered how easy this papier mache method is. I was watching some...

A Triangle-Circle Clown If your child is just learning the difference between different types of shapes, you can review them by making a triangle-circle clown. Your child will enjoy building basic math skills by creating an entire picture out of not...

These adorable little snowman hat ornaments are easy and fun to make, using recycled cardboard tubes and boxes. Last year, on a trip to Arizona to visit family, I wanted to bring my sister-in-law a set of handmade ornaments with her kids' names...

Gifts are coming ! Today little tutorial how to wrap gifts in eco and unique way plus few nice ideas for presentsPakowania prezentów zacząć  czas start !Jak zapakować prezent tak, aby wyróżniał się na tle innych i nie spłukać...

A good friend was recently visiting from Colorado, and she gifted me with a Spicy Farkel game. This was the same friend who gifted me with a regular Farkel game a few months ago. I loved that game, and decided to alter a little round mint tin to make...

DIY EGYPTIAN NECKPIECE My Big boy is obsessed with Egypt… and dinosaurs (but that’s a story for another day).  At the library, he always gravitates towards books on Egypt.  He loves paging through (as he can’t read yet) books on Pharaohs,...

Who doesn't like leggings ? I don't know such person ! They are perfect for almost all body figures, extremely comfortable and fashionable. There are also very easy to sew, perfect for begginers :-)But before sewing you must make a pattern for it , d...

''Holidays are coming'' ... yes , it's truth, maybe not as quickly as shops try to suggest us but they coming and gifts with them. I don't know why and if  I'm the only one but I always connect holidays with bows.. maybe because I always decorat...

Jeżeli czytacie mojego bloga na bieżąco, to na pewno wiecie, że często miewam takie "fazy", dotyczące jakiegoś tematu, który mnie dręczy i dzięki temu mam tutaj o czym pisać, a przy okazji mogę...

We've all got them. Maybe they're stuffed in a drawer somewhere, maybe they're up in a closet, or maybe they're in the "donate" box in the mud room.  Every thrift store has them, too. They are the (often unopened) event specific thank-you...

DIY UFO Spaceship The boys have really enjoyed playing with the toilet roll aliens we made last week and it’s made them really curious about aliens and the possibility of other life in the universe. Being typical little boys they were most cu...

TOILET ROLL ALIENS The boys and I discussed and explored the subject of outer space recently. We discussed planets, aliens as well as the possibility that aliens could exist.  This concept really captured their imaginations and so we decided to mak...

My dear friend sent me a game of pocket Farkel recently. I had visited her on summer vacation this summer, and she attempted to teach me to play. I loved the compactness of the pocket game, but was concerned that the plastic zipper bag would not...

Under the Sea Seashell Craft For the first 26 years of my life I lived in a city called Johannesburg in South Africa.  Johannesburg is inland and the nearest beach is more than 550km away, so a trip to the  beach was always a real holiday treat and...

We adopted two cats this summer. I was scrolling through our local Nextdoor forum, and noticed that someone was looking for a home for their cats, as they were soon to be moving. I was a little shocked, at first, after all, who leaves their cats when...

DIY RAPUNZEL TOWER Both my boys have always enjoyed telling me their favourite fairytale stories – often with their own imaginative little unique twists. One of their favourites is the classic tale of Rapunzel – which may have somethin...

From the scene of the fire (Photo London Fire Brigade)From London Fire BrigadeEight fire engines and around 60 firefighters and officers were called to tackle a fire at a single storey warehouse used as a recycling depot on Hannah Close off Gr...

Lulu the Bee Lulu the Bee is a little button bee puppet, made using a recycled toilet roll, a popsicle stick and a few other decorations.  The popsicle stick makes it easier to hold her and fly her around the room and the button (or other decorati...

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