You may or may not have noticed, but I am a bit of a fan of Kirstie Allsopp, and especially her latest TV offering, Fill your House for Free… Well, you can imagine my excitement when I had an e-mail inviting me to the 1st day of Kirstie’s Handmade Fair in September! The Handmade Fair … Continue reading
I’m going to be slowing down the blog posts for a bit. It’s the summer holidays, the Smalls are home and I want to be spending time with them. And I’m trying to pull together the Make Do and Mend-able Back to Basics book. And I’m sorting out the new website. So something needs to … Continue reading
I made a bag. From trousers. I was planning on making this post into a tutorial, a ‘How-to’, as you would all be so dazzled by my fabulous upcycling, that you would be desperate to have a go yourselves… Well, ermm, my planned trouser to bag upcycle did not go exactly to plan. It looks … Continue reading
Ever since going on a Rubbish Diet, to Slim our Bins, in the January of Make Do and Mend Year, I have been so much more aware of everything that we put in the bin. I am now positively twitchy whenever we put anything in our black bin, and feel a big pang of guilt … Continue reading
Here we go with the round-up of this week’s #makedoandmendhour Twitter chat 🙂 Pics we shared: 1. Bargain 10p vintage pillowcases from a car boot! @Shelleykitten is going to use these for a patchwork quilt 2. @lovesusiestars found this canvas in the recycling bin, and hot-footed home with it, to turn it into… 3. This! A … Continue reading
Apologies for the lateness of this round-up of this week’s Fill Your House for Free-the summer holidays are making it harder than ever to get things done..! BUT the good news is, that this week’s Fill Your House is not the last one, as I thought, but there is another episode next week-HURRAY! As usual, … Continue reading
Here’s the second in the new Making, Making Do and Mending series. The idea is that we all share each month what we are Making, Making Do with, and Mending, and if you have a blog, you can link up your posts for us all to come and see! (If you don’t have a blog, … Continue reading
I’ve been invited to take part in a Creativity Blog Hop! You may well be wondering what a Blog Hop is. It kind of does what it says on the tin, and ‘hops’ from one blog to the next, with the aim of introducing people to other blogs, and sharing the love. This Blog Hop … Continue reading
Here’s this weeks round-up of our #makedoandmendhour Twitter chat-every Thursday 8-9pm! Pics we shared: 1. Beautifully painted and re-vamped furniture from @petitmiracles 2. Another great example of what lick of paint can do to an item-I LOVE the painted shelves! From @raebyrae 3. and 4. raebyrae works at REWORK London, and tweeted these before and after … Continue reading
We are coming to the end of our first full week of the Summer holidays here in the UK, and it is at about this time, when the euphoria of making it to the end of another academic year is fading, that the thought of keeping Small people entertained during the weeks ahead may be … Continue reading
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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!
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