I got an exciting e-mail the other week, from the fabulous team at TRAID. TRAID is a charity working to stop clothes being thrown away-they focus on reducing the negative impacts of textiles and the fashion industry on the environment and people’s lives. Which all sounds pretty good to me 🙂 They have clothes collection … Continue reading
Here we go then, this week’s #makedoandmendhour! Pics we shared: 1. Brilliant bug house! Made from an old CD cabinet, broken fence panel and discarded bricks! From @kykaree 2. Alarm cable inner strands awaiting upcycling by @SueArcher6 3. Bottle top bead curtain! Linked together with fishing line, by @smalldustytown 4. 36ft of free shelving from … 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
Hurray for May! And the sunshine, and for finally starting to feel like summer might just be on the way 🙂 I blogged at the start of the week about Me Made May, so it seems sensible to dedicate May’s edition of the Make Do and Mend Monthly Magazine Blog Post Thing to all things … Continue reading
Since Christmas, we (well actually mostly hubby, if I’m honest..) have been on a bit of a fix-a-thon. On the quiet. It kind of crept up on me, and before I knew it, we (hubby) had fixed an impressive number of things 🙂 1) A few days before Christmas, the dishwasher started making avery ominous … Continue reading
Not long after commencing My Make Do and Mend Year, I found out about a project called The Big Mend, run by the extremely talented Eirlys Penn, aka Scrapiana in Bath. It is a free monthly mending meet up, part skill share, part social, part mending/sewing project helper. And it’s fab! I have been going … Continue reading
I recently rather cheekily sent out some Tweets to various media outlets to see if they would like to feature My Make Do and Mend Year. To my surprise and delight, some of them said Yes! So this Friday morning saw me venturing out of my comfort zone and toddling off to Old Town in … Continue reading
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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
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connecting people, place and planet
by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'
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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)
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thrifty, creative & eco-friendly ways to raise children
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My Make Do and Mend Year 