My dear friend saved these seed sacks from a garden project and asked me to make them into pillows for their living area. I waited for months and months because I wanted to find pillow forms for the project; pillow forms are like a plain, muslin covered pillow that remains in pillow shape so you […]
How to Make Your Very Own Sleeping Bag Liner
Do you have warm old bed sheets that don’t match anything else? Maybe those sheets are warn out and you need a new use for them because you don’t want to throw them away. How about upcycling them into a cheap but very effective sleeping bag liner. These liners can cost a fortune to buy […]
25 Ways to reuse empty feed bags
How many feed bags do you have laying around? At any given time I probably have about a dozen. I get feed from 2 different places so I have 3 different types of bags. The chickens eat at least 3 bags of feed a week so I always have a fresh supply, which brings me […]
Lockers for Organizing: 3 Tips for Upcycling Lockers
In this post I will show how I put an old set of lockers in a place in my home lots of people wouldn’t expect and I’ll share how totally useful they are in what might be the busiest room of the house.
20 Things We Do Not Throw Away
Every year, more and more trash is accumulated in our landfills due to our wasteful habits. Many people will only use something once and throw it away. Many people still do not recycle their packaging despite the increasing availability of recycling centers. And many people would rather throw away their old things rather than take […]
Recycled Crayons – A Recipe for Creative Play
Crayons were probably your very first art supply. The box of brand new colours represented imaginitive dreams and artistic lines at every age. The new adult colouring pages trend have even brought adults back into the crayon fold. But crayons are an enigma. According to the Crayon Initiative, there are 60 tons of paraffin wax […]
