NPR in a Mason Jar: The Single Station FM Radio Kickstarter
What’s the COOLEST thing that you could make with a Mason jar?
An FM radio, is what I’m thinking.
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Crafters We Love
Meet Crunchy Scott: Our newest writer!
Scott Meeks – aka Crunchy Scott – is the newest member of the CAGW team, and we are so happy that he is here!
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Sister Site Love: Meet Andrea Bertoli from Vibrant Wellness Journal
I’m excited to share an interview with Andrea Bertoli, site director at Vibrant Wellness Journal. Andrea is a vegan cooking wizz, and you’re going to love her delicious, healthy recipes.
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Sister Site Love: Meet Feelgood Style’s Liz Thompson!
Liz Thompson is my editor at Feelgood Style, and she is a natural beauty superstar. She was kind enough to answer a few interview questions about herself. Get to know Liz!
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A DIY TV Show That’s All About Upcycling!
Are you ready for upcycling to hit the mainstream? A new DIY TV show may be just the nudge we need to popularize real crafty reuse.
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Spotted: Handmade Necklaces Featuring Real Plants
Aren’t these handmade necklaces encapsulating natural ephemera beautiful?
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Spotted: Summer Pajamas from The Mother Huddle
Does flame retardant bother you, too? If so, what do you do about your kids’ pajamas?
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Spotted: Healthy Food Art from Meet the Dubiens
Need to get healthy food into a kid? Sometimes you have to get creative!
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Celebrate Earth Day with Retrash (and a giveaway)!
Celebrate Earth Day by supporting Retrash — a new book about upcycling, recycling, and living a sustainable lifestyle.
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Pink Flamingo Ephemera Giveaway Winner!
Are you ready for us to reveal who won the incredible Pink Flamingo Ephemera giveaway? Click to see the giveaway winner!
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Crafters We Love: Pink Flamingo Ephemera and a Giveaway!
Are you guys ready to meet another awesome crafter we’re featuring on our Crafters We Love series? Today, we’d love for you to meet Pink Flamingo Ephemera!
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Crafters We Love: Trashy Crafter and a Giveaway!
Skip Black Friday shopping and buy from crafters we love!
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Craft Shows: Green Crafters at the Indie Craft Experience
The Indie Craft Experience is one of my favorite craft shows in the country.
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Crafters We Love: Everyday Eclectic and a Giveaway!
We had the opportunity to interview the crafty couple from Everyday Eclectic– makers of handcrafted artisan goods like soy candles, natural soaps, and room and linen spray. They are also giving away a prize pack to celebrate CAGW reaching 5,000 likes on Facebook!
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HandCrafting Justice: Proof that Craft Can Change Lives
For a lot of us, green crafting means using eco-friendly materials. Or maybe it means using your crafty skills to replace disposables in your life with reusables. Either way, the environment plays a big role in ethical crafting for most of us. For many of us, though, ethical crafting is about making a difference for individual people as well as the environment, and that’s just as important.
HandCrafting Justice is a good example of folks using crafty skills to change lives.
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Green Crafter Profile: Jamie Smith’s Upcycled Jewelry
Artist Jamie Smith creates beautiful handmade jewelry from all reclaimed materials.
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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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Green Crafter: First World Trash
First World Trash makes functional accessories by recycling billboards and seat belts. The eco-chic items are carried in stores around the world and the owner’s goal is to do what’s good for the people of her hometown than just make accessories. Read more to find out where her ultimate vision lies.
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Green Crafter: Rustic Carvings
Working with salvage wood is a sure way to green your crafting, if you can navigate those heavy tools. One savvy crafter knows her miter saws from table saw.
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Green Crafter: Alex Keller
Alex Keller is a jewelry redesigner who converts vintage jewelry and upcycles them into more modern vintage chic jewelry. Her love of vintage carries into her vintage shop where she sells vintage housewares. Let’s see if she has any tips on vintage shopping.
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Green Crafter: Peaces of Indigo
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, mining precious metals is one of the biggest environmental nightmares. Tons of toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury are used to produce and refine precious metals. It is estimated that about 2.9 pounds of mercury is released for every 2.2 pounds of gold produced.
And with that in mind, Dawanna of Peaces of Indigo recycles silver, gold, and bronze to make jewelry.
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Green Crafter: Fashion Green T-Bags
Green Crater Fashion Green T Bags make reusable grocery bags out of t-shirts on Etsy What a great way not to disposable plastic bags!
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Green Crafter: Twig & Leaf Botanicals
twig & leaf botanical is an uber eco-friendly herbal shop that sells organic, vegan herbal concoction on Etsy. How did she start her passion of making herbal remedies?
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Green Crafter: Debby Arem Designs
Debby Arem is the designer behind Debby Arem Designs. She is a perfectionist and fascinated by detail, texture and color. She creates unique ‘geekery’ jewelry and accessories for the home and office that are sometimes whimsical or abstract and sometimes purely decorative or quite functional.
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Crafty Kids: Tristin and Tyler Document Green Crafts in the City
Don’t you just love when you see kids getting excited about crafting? It’s even better when they’re fascinated with repurposed materials. A new web series featuring 7-year-old twins Tristin and Tyler is chock full of green crafting inspiration for kids and grown-ups alike!
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Green Crafter Profile: Recycled Fabric
Michelle Wilson of Recycled Fabric sources vintage and once-loved materials to create wonderfully feminine accessories.
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Green Crafter Profile: Recycled Brooklyn
Matt Loftice of RecycledBrooklyn found green crafting inspiration 1,300 miles away in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, he saw an article about a man recovering all of the wreckage to rebuild his home after it was destroyed.
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Green Crafter Profile: Green Gypsies
Karin McArdle of Green Gypsies creates one-of-a-kind pieces and truly believes that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
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