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Here's our recent blogposts...
The Art of Repair
Extreme Birthdaying…
Deadstock Fabric
A Toast for 2023…
How to save yourself a trip with the Needle Monster…
Cutting corners - or not...
Upcycling or down?
Remember these?
Yes, those shoes that I thought were the ultimate in recycling. The ones I hadn’t noticed were odd until several weeks after my husband had started wearing them… and only then because he drew attention to said item. Well, it seems I was wrong. Turns out they had much further to go…
Realistically speaking…
The Great Plastic Disaster!
How many plastic bottles are there in your house? Go on, open your cupboard doors and count… it’s not a judgement, more a why? When we know it’s not good for us or the planet – when we know it’s in our food as well as in our oceans and seas and that it endangers wildlife - and more recently that Microplastics have also been detected in live human lungs.
Charitable Thoughts…
In a local charity shop recently I overheard, not for the first time I might add, someone complaining about the cost of an item for sale. At first thought it sounded mean, after all, who would begrudge money going to a good cause?
It’s a good question though isn’t it. The meanies, the miserable, the manically motivated bargain hunter, the in need, the less well off?