crafting with recycled materials

5 min read 2023-04-10 20:18:13

DIY Cat Scratcher from Upcycled Cardboard Boxes

This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corrugated cardboard boxes. Cats love it, and it’s a useful donation to

6 min read 2023-04-04 18:31:16

My least favorite thing about any commercialized holiday is how much consumer waste gets produced, and Easter is no different. To be perfectly

5 min read 2023-03-20 18:40:10

Where I live, this is the transition time between Fool’s Spring and Second Winter. Swamp Spring is yet to come, but it, too, will be here soon.

3 min read 2023-03-05 19:02:11

You’ll never burn all of the wax in your jar candle. Whether you’ve made your jar candle or bought it, there will always be at least a little wax

4 min read 2023-02-23 19:45:49

What better way to occupy my time while spending five days hiding in COVID quarantine in my bedroom (sigh…) than to dream of Spring?!? I’m busy

6 min read 2023-02-04 23:08:50

Kid crafts can be SO CRAPPY! And I’m not talking about the finished products. We all know that kid crafts ought to be process-oriented, not product

5 min read 2023-01-10 19:08:36

Did you Live, Laugh, Love in 2008? Did you have a weekly commitment to Instagram your letterboard in 2020? Do you now, or at any time, have a sign

6 min read 2022-12-16 22:39:04

There are so many DIY Christmas garland options using one of the most eco-friendly and economical materials out there: paper! If you’ve got some

4 min read 2022-12-09 23:15:32

Here’s a craft that’s old enough to be a classic: the paper chain! Okay, hear me out: paper chains are AWESOME. Yes, you did them in preschool.

3 min read 2022-11-11 02:23:13

You’ve picked out an old book and prepped its pages–what’s the next step in creating an altered book that you’ll love? Let your imagination

5 min read 2022-09-28 18:30:55

For my newest altered book project, I plan to make a junk journal for October. In it, I’ll combine cast-off papers and wrappers and other bits of

4 min read 2022-09-13 18:26:14

I’m fairly sure that I have made every mistake that it’s possible to make while trying to mail my handmade envelopes through the US postal

6 min read 2022-07-18 17:46:10

After all that plastic bottle angst, I actually now have a plastic bottle craft that I’ve been loving so much that I’ve literally been begging

4 min read 2022-07-11 18:19:30

Some of my most-favorite people directly caused one of my least-favorite scenarios a few weeks ago, when I hosted a party for my Girl Scout troop.

4 min read 2022-05-05 23:05:21

The Problem of Plastic Waste We already knew that we have a problem with plastic waste. I mean, if the side of your nearest highway isn’t evidence