Have you heard about The Great Home Hack-the UK’s first ‘home hacking event’?! Running over three days from the 13th-15th March, at Fulham Palace in London, The Great Home Hack will showcase the very best of British upcycling. And I’m going to be there, running a Masterclass-eeeek! The event is curated by Upcycler extraordinaire, Max … Continue reading
This weekend, saw the second of My Make Do and Mend Year’s Upcycling workshops! This time at the Craft Tea Party in Bath. The Craft Tea Party was the brainchild of the lovely Janine, and was run in aid of Oxfam to celebrate International Women’s Day. Oxfam is working towards a world where everyone has enough … Continue reading
When I first signed up for the Waste Watcher’s challenge, I bombarded poor Emma from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust with all kinds of upcycling and recycling ideas for workshops and things. She bravely agreed to meet with me to discuss all my crazy schemes, and together we came up with the idea of an Upcycling … 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!
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)
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 