Thursday, April 22, 2021
Celebrate Earth Day with the Rule of Half and Friday Favorites Week 578
Sunday, April 18, 2021
10 Zero Waste Craft Projects that also Save Money
I recently read an article claiming that zero waste living doesn’t have to be expensive.
That immediately said to an interviewed college student who said that they couldn’t afford a $20 zero waste made from adopted unicorn tears deodorant that the student just needs to change their attitude because they are buying better and more expensive stuff.
Because apparently the superior feeling of spending more money on low waste deodorant outweighs the reality of the starving student having enough money for school books, tuition, food, and shelter I guess?
The author also said that no one who wants to go low waste (which is a more accurate description than the search engine friendly term zero waste) does it to save money. It really burns my cookies that when confronted with the reality of price, a zero waste expert ignores it and tells you to buy it anyway when they are claiming zero waste living doesn't have to be expensive. That's how zero and low waste living gets the (wrong) perception that its only for the privileged!
My family is practically debt free because we don’t waste things. As we started switching from disposables to reusables the amount of trash we make plummeted and extra dollars accumulated in the bank.
For example it cost zero dollars to stop using plastic zipper baggies and plastic wrap for sandwiches and leftovers and start using the containers with lids (many repurposed) I already had. I had no idea how much money we wasted on that stuff until we didn’t need to buy it anymore - and you could see a serious dent in how much landfill trash it kept out of our bin.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
How to Spring Clean Your Dryer Vent and Friday Favorites Week 577
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
How to Sew a Retro 1940's Polka Dot Top
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Decorative Rain Barrel and Friday Favorites Week 576
Sunday, April 4, 2021
How to Make a Recycled Wine Cork Wall Organizer
After putting the job off as long as humanly possible, it is time to clean and reorganize my craft room. Every craft supply and tool found an organized storage space with the exception of my embroidery hoops. I kept moving them place to place during the decluttering project. It didn’t help matters that I added several big and hard to store machine embroidery hoops to the mix when I got a sewing and embroidery machine for my birthday.
Her name is Bernadette. She can sew everything from chiffon to leather and has so many settings and features it is like flying a rocket ship. Cool, I always wanted to be an astronaut!
I sat and looked around the room trying to find a place for more storage. After quite a bit of time (I may have also been streaming Netflix) I found it – blank wall space under a shelf. Great!
One of the things I like about cleaning, decluttering, and organizing a creative space is rediscovering supplies (fancy talk for I forgot I had that!) I almost always end up using the found objects to make storage and organizers for the item I uncovered that don’t have a good store bought solution including this one.