DIY for Environmentalists: Crafting, Making, Project How-to's, and more!
Thanks for all of your lovely comments about Anka’s shop! We made a list of your entries in the order you submitted, then used a random number generator to choose who would win one of her fabulous brooches or necklaces. And the winner is….(drumroll please!)
Now that digital fabric printing services like Spoonflower offer organic cotton, amazing new eco-friendly fabric designers are popping up left and right! Jasonda, owner of Dotty Logic and a freelance graphic designer, saw digital printing as an opportunity to see her “designs on something a little more tangible and expressive than a computer screen.” Jasonda [...]
I’m a crafty kind of tourist. Wherever I go on vacation, I like to check out a thrift shop or two, a craft supply shop or two, and any shop that I can find that specializes in indie handmade goods. Any time that I happen to find myself in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I make sure, [...]
Summer is for kitschy children’s crafts. Popsicle sticks, pom poms, the ubiquitous lanyard, plus a few thousand mosquito bites are all that’s necessary for the perfect summer. Kids’ crafts, however, can compete with the eco-friendly lifestyle that we try to teach them. They want foam stickers and plastic beads, and we want them to craft [...]
Looking for fun projects to keep your kids busy this summer? Look to nature for plenty of inspiration and use what you find to make fun crafts. Creating nature crafts makes learning fun and gets you and the kids outside. You can create simple projects like twig photo frames, leaf print place mats, flower and [...]
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Hello! My name is Bonnie Getchell and overall, I'm a craft nerd! I love making crafts, re-doing furniture, and anything along those lines. I especially love creating items that are from recycled materials like toilet paper rolls, bottles, etc. There are so many items that can be transformed and repurposed into something beautiful!
If you would like to see more of my work, I also have my own craft blog called Revolutionaries (http://bonniegetchell.blogspot.com).
I'm the lucky momma of two little blonde daddy-clones--we spend our days doing elaborate art projects, trashing the house, eating cheese cubes and oranges, and waiting for my partner to get home from his day job so we can pester him. When I'm off-duty, I drink coffee and make junk out of other junk. Why buy my kid a pair of panties for $3 when I can spend four hours figuring out how to make it out of an old T-shirt I got for free? Trust me, it really is fun. Visit my blog at www.craftknife.blogspot.com or my etsy shop at www.pumpkinbear.etsy.com for more of my awesomeness.
Kelly covers visual arts in and around Washington, DC for DCist and is editor of Crafting a Green World. Kelly has also been published by Bust Magazine and you can find her byline at Indie Fixx and Etsy’s Storque and has taught in Etsy’s virtual lab on the topic of green crafting.
Kelly helps organize Crafty Bastards: Arts and Crafts Fair, one of the largest indie craft fairs on the east coast and has served on the Craft Bastard’s jury since 2007. Kelly is also co-founder of Hello Craft a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the advancement of independent crafters and the handmade movement. Kelly resides in Washington, D.C. and believes that handmade will save the world.
