You may have noticed my delight at the return of Fill Your House for Free to our screens. Whilst watching this week, Kirstie was wafting around a lovely house filled with all kinds of impressive upcycling and free finds. Including a spiral staircase, and a cast iron bath. Both of which the builder hubby managed to … Continue reading
Since starting My Make Do and Mend Year, and our quest for a more sustainable lifestyle, I have picked up some new habits. Things I now do without even thinking. Things that I now regard as ‘normal’ and forget that other people might see them as slightly weird… Below is my list of the first … Continue reading
I blogged at the beginning of June about the Screw Work Lets Play 30 Day Challenge that I had embarked on. The challenge I had set myself was to create a collaborative Make Do and Mend Back to Basics e-book. I thought I should give you all an update….. I asked you all for feedback on … Continue reading
I got e-mailed this poem last week, and it made me smile. And it inspired me and lifted my day. I wanted to share it, in case anyone else is feeling in need of inspiration and a bit of a lift 🙂
Hubby discovered a great new app last week, that I am hoping will help to make we are always able to use up every last scrap of the veg we buy each week. We got a weekly Veg Box from Riverford. Which is brilliant, and the quality is fab, and the veg is delicious. But … Continue reading
After My Make Do and Mend Year was featured as the Guardian’s Sustainable Blog of the Week, I was contacted by a lady called Donna, in the US of A. Donna is a presenter on an online radio station called Survival Mom, and presents a programme called “Surviving on Shoestrings”. She wrote to ask me … Continue reading
Eeeeeekkkkkkkk!!!!! How excited am I? More excited than a Make Do and Mend addict in a vintage fabric shop, that’s how. I had an e-mail from a journalist at the Guardian a couple of weeks ago, asking if I would be interested in writing a short piece on patching for them, as part of a … Continue reading
As part of my master plan for Make Do and Mend to take over the world, I am doing lots of courses at the moment, to learn the skills I need to make Make Do and Mend-able into the site I know it can be. One of the things I have signed up for is a … Continue reading
I am doing a Blogging course, to try and be a Better Blogger. It’s with the fabulous Pip Lincolne from Meet Me at Mikes, and is called Blog with Pip. If you have a blog, or have ever wanted to have a blog, I would totally recommend it-LOADS of information, and lots of support from … Continue reading
We’ve just got back from a week away in sunny (and it was, kind of. Or at least, not rainy, so a big Hurrah!) Cornwall. It was fabulous. There was no wi-fi, which meant I was forced to kick back and spend the evenings reading, and going to bed at a sensible time, rather than … 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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My Make Do and Mend Year 