Spotted: How to Dye Fabric with Tea
Got some plain fabric handy? Check out how to dye fabric with tea for a natural, earthy look.
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Tools + Supplies
Kids Can Upcycle!: 15 Upcycling Projects for Kids
Kids love to make their own toys, and when they upcycle those toys from stuff that you’d otherwise put in the trash or the recycling bin, then they’re not only having fun and saving money, but also learning valuable lessons about eco-friendly creativity.
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How to Grow Microgreens in Plastic Salad Containers
I eat a lot of grocery store salad throughout the winter, but I don’t stress about those awful plastic salad containers.
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20 Upcycled Bookshelf Tutorials
Need a new bookshelf? IKEA is NOT the answer.
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Solving The Printables Dilemma
I love printables as much as the next gal. How can we make our printing as eco-friendly as our crafting?
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GOTS: The Key to Truly Sustainable Organic Cotton
Organic cotton is much better for the planet and the people, and GOTS certification can help you be sure you’re getting the most sustainable organic cotton available.
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15 Awesome Junk Mail Crafts
Are you sick of the junk mail stuffed into your postbox? If you can’t get the flow of junk to stop, try out some of these junk mail crafts!
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Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe–It’s a Money-Saver!
We ALL have laundry to do (right now, probably…), but conventional store-bought laundry detergent, with its petrochemicals, optical brighteners, and synthetic fragrances, isn’t great for the environment OR your skin. And the super-fancy natural stuff? Well, it’s out of *my* price range, for the most part.
Instead, I rely on my homemade laundry soap. It’s easy to make, the ingredients cost pennies per load (about three, give or take a penny), and it’s much healthier for your body and the environment than most store-bought laundry detergents.
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34 Awesome T-Shirt Crafts
Grab a tee from your closet or the thrift store, and let’s make some t-shirt crafts!
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24 Water Bottle Crafts
Keep some plastic out of the landfill with these water bottle crafts!
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Kids Can Sew with Felt and Embroidery Floss
Got a kid who’s eager to learn to sew, but you don’t have the skills to teach them?
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Why I Don’t Craft with Leather
Leather crafts are super hip right now, and as a vegan crafter, that bums me out. I’m probably going to take some flack for speaking up about leather, but the poor animals who suffer because of the leather industry can’t speak for themselves.
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Hemp Legalization in Colorado!
March 1, 2014 is going to be a great day for sustainable fabrics when hemp legalization becomes official in Colorado!
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Holiday Crafts: The 2013 Upcycled CD Wish List Ornament (with Free Printable Template!)
Want a way to preserve the memory of what your child wants most for Christmas this year?
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Holiday Crafts: Filled Christmas Ornaments
Got some teeny-tiny treasures?
Some scrap craft supplies?
How about just some of the colored sand or rice or pony beads that your kids play with?
If you do (and you totally do!), then you’ve got almost all the makings for an easy, special, stash-busting Christmas ornament craft.
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Food Safe Fabric for Sandwich Bags: A Follow Up!
Have you been hunting for food safe fabric to make DIY snack bags? I found a solution for you!
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Clothing + Fashion: How to Shorten Bra Straps
I’m really short, y’all.
And I have really big breasts.
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Hemp Craft Supplies from Hemptique: Review and Giveaway!
The awesome folks at Hemptique sent me some of their sustainable hemp products to craft with, and they’re generously offering up a prize pack to one Crafting a Green World reader!
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Paper Crafts: Choosing Eco-Friendly Paper and Embellishments
Are scrap booking and other paper crafts your thing? Here are some recycled and reclaimed supplies for all of your paper projects!
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Craftivism: Talking Human Rights for Blog Action Day
Craftivism is about more than using your crafts to make a difference. Let’s take a look at the link between craft supplies and human rights.
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Knitting and Crochet: Finding (and making!) Eco-Friendly Yarn
Do you love knitting or crochet? You can make or buy beautiful yarns that are also good for the planet!
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Sewing: 8 Eco-Friendly Fabric Companies for Your Sewing Projects
Finding the right sustainable fabric for your next sewing project now is easy as pie! Check out these beautiful options.
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5 Unusual Sources for Green Craft Supplies
Looking for green craft supplies and getting a little bit bummed that the big box offerings aren’t as eco-friendly as you’d like? Sometimes you have to look in less conventional places!
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Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright
How to make your own greeting cards that aren’t super cutesy and twee?
Include something vintage!
I made these DIY greeting cards not with rubber stamps of teddy bears or foam stickers of ducks in bonnets, but with vintage book pages. Pages trimmed from a ratty, torn copy of The Turn of the Screw and an old dictionary, embellished with paint, compose the front images of a set of all-purpose blank cards, suitable for either the kids or the adults in the family to use.
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Crafty Book Review: Mason Jar Crafts, by Lauren Elise Donaldson
Mason jars aren’t just for canning!
But perhaps you knew that already? Perhaps you, too, drink frosty beverages out of your Mason jars, or fill them with water and wildflowers and plop them in the center of your table? Perhaps you decorate their lids and store buttons in them?
Perhaps you sometimes get a little crafty with them, hmm?
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How-to: Painted Stones
Stones are completely beautiful in themselves, but sometimes you just feel in your heart that you need something with a little more color.
And that’s okay! Maybe sometimes a plain old grey stone WANTS to be painted, you know?
5 Recycled Felt Craft Projects
Got some recycled felt in your stash? We have some project ideas for you!
LEGOs as an Eco-Friendly Craft Supply?!?: Sustainable Projects Made from LEGOs
Not every LEGO project is a sustainable one–that LEGO TIE fighter set that you bought just to build and look at isn’t serving a purpose beyond helping you get your nerd on–but there are a few specific categories of LEGO projects that do help you avoid further consumption and disposal of new goods. Here are several great, sustainable LEGO projects to get you started.
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How-to: DIY Embellished Business Cards–with a Treat!
Sometimes, if you’re an artist or a crafter, you have the chance to give out business cards that have a lot more flair. Business cards that you give out at a conference or networking event, with a purchase at a craft fair, or in a package that you’re shipping with an order from your etsy shop can afford to be a little fancier, and include a little bonus gift to make you memorable.
These DIY business cards may not fit in a potential customer’s wallet, but they’ll still stand out. Whether it’s a string of hand-painted beads, a small charm, or another trinket, these items may be just more of your unneeded stash, but to others they’re gifts, a little added value that costs you nothing but a few extra seconds of time, but positively impacts how your business card is received.
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How-to: Kid-Decorated Bean Bags from Scrap Fabric
Got some stash light-colored fabric?
Got a bored kid?
These bean bags don’t take much material, so any light-colored fabric from your scrap bin is great for this project. Your kiddos will have a fabulous time decorating them with fabric pens or fabric paints, and when they’re done, just a few straight seams and a handful of beans turns them into a super-fun soft toy.
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Why I Write My Thank-You Notes on Recycled Elephant Poop Paper
You don’t even have to actually tell the recipient of your thank-you card that it’s written on recycled elephant poop paper.
But why wouldn’t you?
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Crafty Book Review: Knits for Dolls, by Nicky Epstein
Got some yarn leftover after your last knitting project?
Wondering if you should stuff it back in your stash for perhaps forever? Pass it on? Trash it?
Instead, how about you thrill your favorite little kid by using that stash to knit him or her the most awesome, clever, modern doll outfits ever?
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Crafty Book Review: Side by Side, by Tsia Carson
It’s no problem to find crafts for kids to do.
It’s no problem to find crafts to do for kids.
Crafts that you can do along with your kids, however? Collaborative crafts that work well even when one participant is young and one is old? Projects that an adult doesn’t have be bored by or bossy about, that a kid can contribute meaningfully to, that they’ll both enjoy just as well?
Yeah, those are a little harder to come by.
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How-to: Upcycled Tile Mosaic Coaster
Need the perfect set of coasters? These coasters, crafted from upcycled tiles, broken glass, and grout, will keep your tables covered. They’re the perfect outdoor project for a summer day, a great project to share with a kid or two, and a useful way to use up extra wall tiles, or even to redo old store-bought coasters. Here’s how to make your own set of mosaic tile coasters.
How-to: DIY Travel Toothbrush Holder from a Washcloth or Stash Toweling
This travel toothbrush holder isn’t the kind of fancy holder with a pocket for your toothpaste and another pocket for your floss. It’s not monogrammed, it’s not sewn from cute fabric, and it doesn’t match anything.
What it is, however, is functional and quick to make. It’s the kind of travel toothbrush holder that you sew the day before your trip when you need a break from packing, the kind of travel toothbrush holder that you’ll actually use because you can just throw it in your bag, the kind of travel toothbrush holder that, if you accidentally forget it in your hotel room, won’t break your heart because you’ll know you can sew another one in about ten minutes.
Here’s how to make THAT kind of travel toothbrush holder.
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Fab Fabrics: New Line of Organic Prints from Sara Lee Parker
Sara Lee Parker creates beautiful organic fabrics, and she just released a new line!
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