Using salvaged and recycled wood in projects for around the home not only saves you money, it saves trees! Here are some ideas from around the web on how to use salvaged pallet wood.
Encourage creativity, design, problem-solving, and engineering with an inexpensive kid’s craft box made from gathered, recycled materials and inexpensive additions.
A collection of patterns for making your own dishcloths. Once you’ve tried a knitted dishcloth, you’ll never go back to disposable – they work really well.
A tutorial for making the hand embroidered fabric placemats that I made as a Christmas present last year.
Create your own custom hand embroidery designs easily for free using GIMP graphics programme.
These little handmade treat bags are easy to make for a super-cute DIY gift. Ideal for Christmas, wedding favours, Halloween, Easter. Also great as part of a hamper.
Don’t spend a fortune on gift wrapping that goes to waste anyway. Here are some handmade gift wrapping ideas that are good for the budget and the environment. Gift wrap can be expensive and it’s not that great for the environment. According the CSIRO, Australians use 150,000 km of gift wrap during the Christmas season….