Hello, and welcome to My Make Do and Mend Year, where I Make, Make Do, Mend, Upcycle, Re-purpose, Thrift….and buy NOTHING NEW for a whole year, starting 1st September 2012! Can it be done..? Follow me on my journey and find out!
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Make Do and Mend Silver Polish…
I have a pair of silver earrings that I wear pretty much everyday, and in the way of silver things, they get pretty tarnished. Now, we are not in possession of a vast amount of silver…and even if we were, given the state of the rest of the house, I am pretty sure that polishing … Continue reading »
Ethical Awards
I am very excited. The lovely people at Ecover have very kindly offered me two tickets to the Observer Ethical Awards, on June 13th. And I am very excited! I asked the lovely hubby if he would like to come, but he couldn’t get the time off work (Boooooooo!), so my ‘plus 1′ is going to … Continue reading »
A very visible mend…!
We had a small accident the other day (not the bike crash, another one..) involving SmallSmall and a fish shaped salt pig thing that we keep all sorts of random keys and bits in. He has a fascination with keys and all the sorts of small things that Small children should never be allowed to … Continue reading »
Fused plastic flowers
At the May Bath Artisan Market, the theme was Bath in Bloom, and all the stall-holders had been asked to decorate their stalls with a floral theme. Now, obviously the easy thing to do for my Make It Better…Upcycle Exchange stall, would have been to go out and buy some flowers, or to dig something … Continue reading »
Groovebulb Upcycle…
I hope you all coped with the suspense ok…. The task (in case you had forgotten) was to Upcycle this cardboard packaging from our lovely energy efficient, mercury-free, LED Groovebulb. The most obvious thing that spings to mind is obviously some kind of pen holder. But I wanted to be a bit more inventive than … Continue reading »
Let there be light!
When I first started My Make Do and Mend Year, I have to confess to not really having thought the whole concept through. I just thought it would be a ‘good’ (in many different ways) thing to do, and that this whole blogging thing might be a bit of fun too. And it is proving … Continue reading »
Lampshades…
Of the many things we had forgotten about when we cleared out the garage recently, we came across this… ..and these… So we set to work. Hubby chose the slightly less tedious job of putting together the fantabulous Wombles lampshade, that I would actually really love in our room, but is now hanging looking very retro … Continue reading »
34!!!!
This Saturday, as part of my new Make It Better… enterprise, we Dressed A Girl Around the World! And not just one girl, 34!!! That’s right, we made 34 pillowcase dresses on our sewing day It was SUCH a great day. So many people came and it exceeded all of our expectations. Thankyou so so … Continue reading »
Ups and Downs…
Last weekend, on the Bank Holiday, when the sun shone (yay!) and we cleared out the garage… we also attempted some fun stuff too. Well, actually, we did do some fun stuff, but on our second attempt at fun stuff, My Make Do and Mend Year let us down… On the Saturday, in the afternoon, … Continue reading »
Fun Fun Fun…
This weekend was a Bank Holiday. And, amazingly, the sun shone So what did we do..? We cleared out our garage of course! (We did do lots of fun stuff too…) Last week I confessed to the ‘dumping ground’ that is our spare room. Well, that is ONE of several dumping grounds. The outside dumping … Continue reading »
