Just a very quick one to say Thankyou so so much for all your lovely comments and support following on from my little bit of navel-gazing and snivelling..! I am touched and re-motivated that so many people are being inspired by My Make Do and Mend Year. In case you haven’t had a chance to … Continue reading
Those of you with children, will be well aware that it is half-term this week. And it has started raining. Again. So I thought I would share a quick and easy kid’s craft that we made earlier on this week at our Make It Better Mini-Swish and Socktopus making workshop with Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. It … Continue reading
What exactly am I doing? Where am I going? What am I trying to achieve? I am sat here, tired, with a headache. My house is a mess. My kids are playing upstairs on their own, when I should be inter-acting or making some wonderful craft with them. I have a pile of jeans that … Continue reading
Knitting ideas, inspiration and free patterns, plus crochet, weaving, and more
Other than my pants, the rest are charity finds
A money-saving, growing-our-own, making-do-and-mending husband-and-wife blog
Some of the cool and useful food, craft and sustainability skills that your grandparents knew, but probably didn't teach you!
Inspired by Make Something Month
Author, trainer, coach
connecting people, place and planet
by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'
Let's fix our relationship with electronics
Every month (except December) we bring people together* to give the objects we share our world with a second lease of life and to chat and have a cuppa whilst we're at it (*currently online)
Makes, remakes, mends, darns, sews, arts, and crafts.
thrifty, creative & eco-friendly ways to raise children
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Proof that "We're going to live in a tent in a field" is easier read than done
My Make Do and Mend Year 