Quick Tip: Wine Corks

If you are planning on having a dinner party or planning a wedding anytime soon, start saving your wine corks now! They make great place card holders. CasaSugar has a great DIY instructional for wine cork place card holders. CLICK HERE to visit the site.

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Eco-Friendly Super Bowl

Eco-Friendly Super Bowl

So the Super Bowl is coming up this Sunday. Here are a few tips to keeping your party eco-friendly. I think most people will cheer for the “green” team. Tips for an Eco-Friendly Super Bowl: Digital Invite. Instead of sending out a paper invitation, send an online invitation through a site like evite.com Use...

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Creative REuse Artist: this chickadee

Creative REuse Artist:  this chickadee

I have an etsy shop, so I spend a great deal of time on the site.  Last week, I randomly found this chickadee and fell in love with her products and ideas for creative reuse.  I sent her a quick email to see if she wanted to tell us a little about herself and...

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How to make your own Glass Cleaner

How to make your own Glass Cleaner

Vinegar is heavily underrated.  Ok, maybe it’s not.  Anyway, I think the vast amounts of goodness that can come from vinegar are amazing.  Not only can it dress your salad, add a little somethin’ somthin’ to your sauce, but it can clean your glass and mirrors! Today, I am celebrating that which is VINEGAR!...

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Quick Tip: Reuse Old Socks

I don’t know about you, but I hate when my socks get holes in them!  After sewing the holes a number of times, socks just need to be retired. How about this: Use old socks to polish items and stain wood! Socks are great to use as rags for polishing shoes, silver, whatever and...

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How to Reuse Old Photographs to Make a Personalized Wallet

How to Reuse Old Photographs to Make a Personalized Wallet

I have boxes and boxes full of old prints.  Now most of my negatives are becoming digitized, so I wanted to do something with my old photos. Here’s one idea! How to Make a Wallet from Old Photographs: 1.  Pick 6 favorite photographs. (I’ve used landscapes, but you can use anything.) 2.  Cut each...

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Spotlight: CosaVerde.com

Spotlight: CosaVerde.com

Today’s spotlight is on CosaVerde.com Literally translated from Spanish it means “Green Thing.”  Cosa Verde is a website that hosts small shops for people who make items that are environmentally friendly, that have reused materials in them, that are reusable themselves, organic, vegan, conflict-free, all that good stuff.  There are so many artists out...

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