Hey chaps! Hope over to the new Make Do and Mend-able site to hear from TV’s favourite upcycler, Max McMurdo, telling us more about The Great Home Hack. AND grab a code to bag yourself free entry to the event. AND enter the giveaway to win free tickets to my masterclass! It’s all going on…! … Continue reading
Hurray and hurrah! It’s been a looooong time coming, but at last, my new website is LIVE! It’s not quite the finished article yet, but there is enough there for you to have a nose around, and get the idea! This blog will carry on, on it’s own page on the new site, but the … Continue reading
I’ve been promising you the new Make Do and Mend-able website for what feels like a looooong time, (I originally blogged about it here, waaaay back in May last year!) but I’m jumping up and down with excitement to say that it should be ready to launch this coming Thursday! I’m trying hard to … Continue reading
I’m still here! Apologies for the lack of posts. I have been working away like made on the book AND the new website, and am pleased to report that significant progress is being made on both…! Here’s an update: The Book-Make Do and Mend-able Back to Basics I originally, naively, embarked on this project as … Continue reading
I asked for Your Top Make Do and Mend Tips a little while ago, and you very generously came up trumps (yet again!) As suspected, I was too last minute to get organised with business cards, but I am love the idea of collating all your fave tips and having them printed onto business cards or … Continue reading
The book! I bet you all thought I had forgotten about the book! If you are thinking, “what book?”, I am referring to my Make Do and Mend-able Back to Basics e-book! It’s a collaboration with other fabulous Make Do and Mend-ers, and aims to cover the basics of (at least some aspects of) Make … Continue reading
I need your help! As ever, I have left things until the last minute, but I’m hoping there might still be time…. I’ve been lucky enough to be given a ticket for the awesome Handmade Fair this Friday, (it’s on Friday, Saturday and Sunday-take a peek-looks AMAZING!), and it has suddenly occurred to me that … Continue reading
I blogged a while back about my new Make Do and Mend-able project, (not the book, another one…!) which I am super excited about. Well….. the big new is…… I now have a holding page! AND a web address: http://www.makedoandmend-able.co.uk Maybe not quite the big news you were expecting, and maybe not big news, but … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about my hugely exciting new Make Do and Mend-able project, and my need for help making a decision about a logo. I had narrowed it down to these two: I got very technical(!), and managed to post a poll for you all to cast your votes-thankyou so much … Continue reading
Thankyou soooo much for all your wonderful comments about my logo for my exciting new Make Do and Mend-able venture, all from the fair hand of the fabulous Claire Holgate! It was lovely to have so much positive and constructive feedback. I’ve managed to narrow it down from all the various options, to a final … 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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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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