Five Upcycled Fabric Storage Solutions
If you’re dreaming about a new way to organize your fabric, check out these five storage solutions that are constructed from eco-friendly upcycled materials.
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Tools + Supplies
Make Reusable Stickers from Upcycled Paper
Leave those nasty foam stickers on the store shelf and show your kids how easy it is to make your own custom reusable stickers. While you’re at it, make yourself some stickers for your scrapbook, and that’s one more aisle that you don’t have to shop!
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Review: Artemis Plant Color Modeling Beeswax
A natural modeling beeswax dyed with plant colors sounds pretty eco-friendly, but how do we know what’s really in it?
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Green Crafting: A Justifiable Means to an End?
Although upcycling and using eco-friendly materials is still preferred but is green crafting a justifiable means to an end when using ‘evil’ materials in the name of upcycling and reusing? What do you think?
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4 Clever Bottle Cap Crafts for Non-Recyclable Plastic Caps
We shouldn’t use plastic bottles but plastic bottle caps are on milk cartons, orange cartons, and even yogurt drinks. We can’t escape them, even if we don’t drink bottled water. So what do we do with all those non-recyclable plastic bottle caps? Collect them and make these cool functional crafts!
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Use up Scrap Fabric with Freezer Paper Applique
Crafting with freezer paper to make appliques and stencils are great way to use up fabric scraps. Here is how to use freezer paper for making appliques and stencils.
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Upcycled Superhero Craft Roundup
A few action figures are fine, but wouldn’t playtime be even more fun with something that has a little bit more heart?
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How-to: Make an Upcycled Magnifying Glass Necklace
Take your magnifying glass on the go when you use solder and an antique glass lens to create your own magnifying necklace.
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Review: Stockmar Modeling Beeswax
How does Stockmar modeling beeswax compare to my own beloved homemade modeling beeswax?
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How-to: Make a Dream Catcher from Old Guitar Strings
You can’t recycle used guitar strings, but you can upcycle them into a super sweet dream catcher!
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How-to: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
Homemade sidewalk chalk in fun shapes and beautiful colors is always at your fingertips with this easy and inexpensive homemade sidewalk chalk recipe and tutorial.
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Hemp Twine: An Eco Alternative to Baker’s Twine
Baker’s twine is all the rage, but conventional cotton leaves a lot to be desired, from an eco perspective. Hemp twine to the rescue!
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How-to: Sew a Rice Pillow to Use as a Heating Pad or Cold Pack
A homemade rice pillow is an easy project to create for your natural first-aid kit. You can use a rice pillow as a heating pad or a cold pack!
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Fab Fabrics: Undyed Hemp Fabric
We got a note from a reader recently who is looking to switch to an eco-friendly option for her hand-dyed and printed fabrics. The trouble is, she couldn’t track down a source for undyed eco-fabrics.
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Finding Green Craft Inspiration
Do you ever feel like you are burnt out from green crafting? Or have you ever hit a dry spell with reusing and repurposing? I mean, how many different ways can you upcycle t-shirts? I’m sure you’ve had moments when you can not think of one more way to use up a scrap of fabric. So where do you find inspiration? How can you find the creativity to continue to craft reusing materials?
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4 Polyfill Alternatives for Sustainable Stuffing
Conventional polyfill is petroleum based, so what’s a green crafter to do? Here are some eco-friendlier options for stuffing that pillow or plushie!
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Giveaway: Win an Artterro Eco-Friendly Art and Craft Kit
Win your own Artterro Creative Art Kit!
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Review: Artterro Eco-Friendly Art and Craft Kits Plus Giveaway
Arterro art and craft kits for children are as eco-friendly as I could want them to be, but how did my own little craft snobs like them? Read on and see!
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A High-Quality Crayon Sharpener will Change the Way that Your Kids Color
If your kids prefer using markers (so much plastic!) to crayons, perhaps all they need is a really nice crayon sharpener to make it fun again.
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Clay, Dough, and Wax: Five Natural Modeling Materials You Can Make Yourself
For a fun craft time without a lot of expense, check out these five kinds of natural modeling materials that you can make for yourself.
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Sewing Room DIY Projects
It’s probably because I just completed a studio makeover, but I’m obsessed with finding little DIY ways to make my sewing room that much cooler.
Here are a few of the sewing room DIY projects that have been catching my eye these days.
5 Ways to Make Custom Stamps Natural or Recycled Items
You don’t have to buy stamp carving blocks to create hand-carved stamps. Check out these five natural or upcycled alternatives!
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How-to: Carve Your Own Custom Rubber Stamps
Need a perfect image for a business card or wedding invitation? Anyone can create hand-drawn, hand-carved custom rubber stamps with a few tools and a little time.
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10 Places to Find Eco-Friendly Art Supplies
10 places where you can shop for eco-art supplies.
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Five Natural Crafts to Make Using Seashells
Have fun on your beach vacation? Put your sandy seashell souvenirs to use, and create a handmade object that will forever remind you of your special trip.
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Green Crafter Ethics: Is it Okay to Collect Seashells?
Is it okay to collect seashells for your own crafty purposes?
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Five Crafty Projects to Upcycle Your Potato Chip Bags
Keep potato chip bags out of the waste stream by upcycling them into one of these five crafty projects.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Knit and Crochet
We’ve talked about vegan sewing supplies and vegan soap making, and I don’t want you fiber artists to be left out! There are lots of wonderful options for vegan knit and crochet supplies. It just takes a little bit of extra attention to materials to suss out common animal products.
Soy-Gel: A Must Have for Furniture Refinishing
Have furniture to refinish? Try soy-gel.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Vegan Soap Making
With a little help from Tracy Perkins, vegan soap superstar, we take a look at common animal ingredients that vegan soap makers should look out for and what vegan soap making supplies are out there.
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5 Crafty Ways to Upcycle Mesh Produce Bags
Those mesh produce bags that your onions and oranges come in are too useful to be thrown away! Check out these five crafty projects that help you upcycle your mesh produce bags.
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The Best Must-Read Soapmaking Resources
Interested in learning how to make cold-process soap, or ready to stretch your soapmaking skills? These resources are invaluable for every well-researched soaper.
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Quilting Day 2011: Eco-Friendly Quilting Supplies
Did you know there was a National Quilting Day? It’s just around the corner, on March 19th. Let’s celebrate eco-friendly quilting this year with some green quilting supplies!
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How-to: Five Crafty Recipes that Use Cornstarch
Don’t let all that cornstarch just languish in a box on your shelf for ten years, not when you can use it up making these five natural, fun, and easy crafty creations.
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Where Did the Eco Go?
Not long ago local store shelves were filled with green products, now they’re nowhere to be found. What happened?
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