Kid-Friendly, Eco-Friendly Face Paints
This Halloween, be proactive and provide your kids with face paints that are safe and eco-friendly as well as fun.
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Crafty in the Kitchen with SodaStream
Christmas is coming, do you want a home soda making machine? I didn’t because I thought they were complicated. But boy was I wrong, they couldn’t be easier to use.
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Make An Expandable File Folder from a Cereal Box
Cameron Blazer from the Cottage Industrialist has created a wonderful tutorial for creating a simple DIY expandable file folder from a cereal box and some other crafty bits.
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How-to: Thrift Store Figurine to Revamped Decor
A quick project that transforms forgotten figurines into unique pieces for your home.
Ten Tea Set Crafts
Take thrifted tea sets and turn them into unique projects for your home!
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Crafters Making a Difference
At its heart, crafting is about channeling our creative energy into something tangible. Sometimes we keep what we make, sometimes we sell it, sometimes we give our creations as gifts. Wouldn’t it be great if we could use our crafty skills to help people in need?
There are tons of crafty charities out there doing just that! Here are a few options for charitable crafting.
Getting Crafty in the Kitchen: Homemade Tea Blends
Does the chilly weather get you craving hot beverages? Sure, you could pick up a box of store-bought tea, but wouldn’t it be more fun to mix up your own creations? Here are some tea recipes to get you going! If you’re feeling super crafty, you could even brew them up in homemade tea bags.
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Essential Oils for Cleaning Your Home Naturally
Green living entails green cleaning. Here are 5 essential oils for cleaning that will give you the power that you need, minus harmful industrial chemicals.
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Switch Your Balancing Butterfly to a Balancing Bat for Halloween
Whether or not you’ve made a balancing butterfly before, you’ll find the balancing bat to be just as magical, and perfect for Halloween.
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Recipe for Garden Fresh Salsa
Every year I end up with way too many tomatoes from my garden. Which means I am usually giving away boxes of them to friends, family, neighbors, or to anyone who wants them.
This year I decided to take a different approach- I wanted to use them. Salsa was the first idea that came to mind since I have fresh peppers in my garden as well as tomatoes. So I gave it a try.
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Discover Eco-Eye Candy at Recyclart
If you’re board and want to check out some cool recycled stuff, you’ll love Recycled Art and you’ll quickly become addicted by scrolling through all of its awesomeness.
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How-to: Thrift Store Wood to Refrigerator Magnets
Create one-of-a-kind magnets using recycled pieces of wood.
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How-to: Recycled Paper Envelopes
This how-to will show you how to create easy decorative paper envelopes from paper found in your recycle bin.
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5 Halloween Costume Ideas Using Recycled Materials
Besides candy, my favorite thing about Halloween is creating fun and interesting costumes with recycled materials. The challenge of turning junk into a one-of-a-kind costume is one of the things that makes this holiday so much fun. Here are five eco-friendly costumes you can make or to get your creative juices flowing!
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Pack a Crafty Lunch: Bento Eye Candy
Lunch time at work or school can be wasteful and quite pricey. Here are some ideas to inspire you to pack cute, crafty lunches that won’t disappoint!
Edible Crafts: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Playdough
Store bought playdough is full of artificial coloring, and after a while it starts to get dried out and unusable. Homemade, edible playdough is free from chemicals and creates much less waste, since the kids will eat their creations!
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Home-Baked Bread over Health Insurance: Radical Homemakers
Explore the world of families who’ve given up their day jobs to live full-time eco-crafty lives in Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes.
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Nature Craft How-to: A Watercolor and Tree Twig Pinwheel
A pinwheel is a gentle, natural, peaceful autumn toy that you can help a child make out of his or her own watercolor drawing and a straight twig fallen from your favorite tree.
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Review of Creating Floral Centerpieces
Creating Floral Centerpieces is a must have for any floral designer or flower arranging enthusiast looking to breathe new life into old designs.
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Eco-Friendly Halloween Etsy Finds
Find cute, handmade and eco-friendly goodies on Etsy.
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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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How-to: Cereal Box Notepad
A quick and easy project, that shows you how-to reuse your cereal boxes and create fast and cute notepads.
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Public Fruit Jam: Canning Celebrates Community
I have canning on the brain these days! It seems like I run across tasty canning recipes constantly. Last week, I stumbled on yet another great canning idea: public fruit jam.
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Beat Holiday Waste with Reusable Gift Wrap
The U.S. generates an average of five million tons more waste during the holiday season, and the bulk of that is all of that beautiful, paper giftwrap that goes straight to the bin after we open our gifts.
Luckily, we don’t have to resort to disposables when it comes to wrapping gifts. There are a few more eco-friendly options out there. Here are some of my favorites.
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How-to: Pizza Box Playset
Two recycled pizza boxes, hot glue, and waxed paper or aluminum foil are all you need to make an easy, versatile playset for your child.
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Harvest a Year’s Worth of Natural Crafting Supplies in Autumn
Now’s the time to gather enough pinecones, acorns and other natural autumn treasures to enhance your crafting for the entire year.
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8 Great Eco-Halloween Kid Crafts
It IS possible to have an eco-friendly Halloween!
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A Review of Sewing for Dummies 3rd Edition
Is Sewing for Dummies the answer to a stitchless life?
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Three Tips for Canning Safety
Yesterday, we talked about how to get your craft on and preserve the summer bounty at the same time. Home canning is fun and rewarding, but you want to make sure that those tasty canned fruits and veggies are safe to eat when you pull them out of the pantry.
Getting Crafty in the Kitchen: Five Tasty Canning Recipes
Summer is officially over, which for folks in the northern hemisphere means the end of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other summery fruits and veggies. If your garden has been productive, or the farmers market or CSA is overflowing with produce, now is the time to preserve that all of that good summery food!
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Five Newspaper Crafts to Help You Reuse before You Recycle
Before you recycle your newspaper, reuse it one last time to make one of these eco-friendly newspaper crafts.
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The Classic Newspaper Hat Tutorial, Now with Your Choice of Paper!
Ever wondered exactly how to make a newspaper hat? Here’s a variation on the classic newspaper hat tutorial that can use any paper you like.
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Give Halloween Costumes New Life with the National Costume Swap
Make Halloween green this year by participating in a costume swap.
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Win a REVEAL Recycled Handbag
Win a luxurious eco-friendly handbag from REVEAL.
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