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There are many simple clothespin crafts you can do. Remember the reindeer made with clothepins from elementary school? Or how about the crazy bat clothespins? Here are a five more clothespin crafts that can be updated for adults. 1. Gift Tags The creature comforts blog has a of couple nice tutorials for making clothespins into pretty gift tag holders or even a fancy photo holder. 2. Recipe Card Holder The Disheroons blog has some nifty recipe card holder DIY instructions....

Do It Gorgeously covers a little bit of everything DIY and crafty that you can make yourself. As a hands on green girl I am loving this book. I especially found the food canning advice useful because it is something I have been wanting to try but thought it was a daunting experience. I figured I would have to buy a lot of special equipment but she pointed me in the right direction for simplified canning....

This craft is for three different types of people. PARENT-CRAFTERS I know you’re trying to keep the little ones busy. They’re off from school. They’re hyped up on sugar. They’re keeping your from all those last minute holiday thingies you had to do! So how do you keep them busy? Corral them at the craft table, give them a few supplies – and letting their artistic side explode. This craft is so easy, no supervision is necessary – unless you have really bad kids....

Prom dresses are some of my favorite articles of clothing to upcycle. Thrifted, that fancy fabric is cheaper by the yardage than purchased new, and they always include gorgeous embellishments and perfect hardware that careful cutting can preserve. My kid wanted a pair of green pants in “fancy fabric” to go with the upcycled T-shirt shirt that she designed. She drew a slim-fitting upper with many detailed notes about construction (apparently elastic waistbands are now for babies?...

Back in the day, I would make a “coupon book” for my parents full of free hugs and chores that I disliked. I decided to put an eco-friendly and personalized spin to my average coupon book. Here’s how you (or your children) can make one, too! What You Will Need: Recycled paper. I used book pages, but you could use sheet music, junk mail envelopes, reclaimed childrens wallpaper etc, too....

I particularly love the open-ended playability of path tile games. I love that depending on the design, the path you follow could be a highway or a water-filled pipe or a route through a cave system, and I love that you can make an all-new game just by changing the shape of the tile or the number of paths per tile. You can make up your own rules for your game, you can change the rules every time, or you can have no rules at all and just enjoy the process of building an intricate and ever-changing maze....

Cork place card holders are a popular and simple DIY craft for wine theme weddings. Find details at The Bubbly Bride and a tutorial at Wedding Bee. These wine bottle candelabras are beautiful and would make fabulous centerpieces. You can find them at CountryPorch.com Here’s a way to use a wine bottle as a unique table number and centerpiece display. This bride went all out with her wine wedding. This big wine barrel served as her card box....

We hear ya, you’re busy! That’s why we make it super easy to enter your eco-friendly crafts tutorial the Showcase. You don’t need to do a brand new project just for us. Just find a great, green craft project that you’ve written for your blog, and give us the link, a short description, and tell us who you are using the form on this page. The whole idea behind this showcase is to show off the awesome green crafts that our readers are creating, so don’t be shy!...

Jodie has become so enamored with selvedge she even created a selvedge storage system. She keeps three boxes labeled Papa Selvedge, Mamma Selvedge, and Baby Selvedge. She explains the Papa Selvedge box is the long strips she cuts off yardage. I assume then Baby Selvedge are short bits and Mamma Selvedge is somewhere in between. I also assume she had more than three photo boxes worth of selvedge to create the dress and chair....

And yet my kids have always had a bounty of Easter eggs for backyard egg hunts and decorating and displaying and hiding tiny treats inside, because I am obsessed with DIY Easter eggs. Every year, I can’t stop myself from making a few more of my favorites, AND finding a couple more new handmade egg projects to try. Here are my favorites! Papier Mache Eggs This is my ABSOLUTE favorite Easter egg to make, although it’s also the most time-consuming....

These Vintage Style Favor Treat Bags by Seasonal Delights are perfect for small products like jewelry or soap. The set of hand stamped bags come with a coordinating hand stamped stickers to seal the bag shut. Tiny Art by Yaelfarn makes these cute Mini Pillow Gift Boxes perfect for small items and gift cards. So beautiful they are almost a gift in themselves and your recipient will be sure to reuse them....

Well have no fear because this week CAGW will tackle that very question and offer up nifty solutions to reusing your Easter eggs! Fresh out of my sugar rush, I grabbed an errant egg and quickly put it to use. I stuffed the inside with all my loose garment buttons. You know the extra buttons that come on new clothes? I’ve never had a good place to put them all, until now....

What do you get when a musician and a textile company get together? It looks like what you get is a plan to bring recycled fabric into the mainstream! Music producer, singer-songwriter, and rapper Pharrell Williams is teaming up with the New York-based textile firm Bionic Yarn to work on a new fabric made from recycled plastic. Williams started out as a hip hop artist, writing lyrics for folks like Wreckx-N-Effects and going on to produce albums and release his own music....

I mentioned before that the majority of the fabric at Naturally Modern is limited edition or out of print, meaning they are virtually impossible to find anywhere else. It also means if you see a print you like you better snatch it up before it is gone. There is very limited yardage of all designs. Naturally Modern aims to offer an ever evolving and revolving selection of modern, sustainable, hand-printed fabrics....

Thanks for all of your lovely comments about Anka’s shop! We made a list of your entries in the order you submitted, then used a random number generator to choose who would win one of her fabulous brooches or necklaces. And the winner is….(drumroll please!) Adrienne Hooker! Congratulations!! We’ll get you hooked up with Anka, so that you can choose your prize. Thanks again for all of your participation, and a huge thanks to Anka for her generous prize donation!...

So I thought it was high time to give this online eco-shop their own day in the sun in our Fabulous Fabrics series. Their collection of cotton, wool, and hemp fabrics, yarns and knitting needles, and notions is sure to warm the heart of any green crafter. Since there’s so much to see on their site, I thought I’d take a moment and highlight a couple of the new fabrics they just added....

Their other organic fabrics are black, white, and flax colored organic linen and a natural color cotton jersey. For us non-Australians, international shipping is a flat rate of $A10.00. Swatches are available if you need to check them out before ordering in quantity. I found out about the Iron Flowers fabric from my co-conspirator… err, co-contributor Leslie here at CAGW. In turn, Leslie had found it from Miss M of a natural thread....

Okay, do you like handmade soap? Right, and do you like eco-friendly handmade soap in tree-free packaging? Yeah, and would you like to have this yummy, handmade, eco-friendly soap for free? Are you feeling lucky? Then enter our giveaway! Soaps to Live by is giving away, to one lucky winner with a United States address, three of their handmade soaps of the winner’s choice. Yesterday I reviewed the Bliss oatmeal cloves soap, the Dream peppermint rosemary organic soap, and the Shine citrus lavender soap, but perhaps you’re more into patchouli orange–then Hope is YOUR soap!...

Crafter Laura Martin teamed up with two friends to turn a hobby into a force for good in the Atlanta community. Martin was volunteering with Central Outreach and Advocacy Center (OAC) helping Atlanta’s homeless when she designed her first necktie bag: a self-contained grocery tote. She got volunteers to help her sew and raised $6000 for the center just by selling grocery bags. Feeling empowered with that initial success, Martin teamed up with friends Cameron McCord and Elizabeth Chrane to launch Ties That Matter....

Here is a roundup of some of the best holiday printables on the web. Family Fun has a huge selection of kid friendly printables that include everything from ornaments and tree toppers to cards and gift tags. Next» Candy Box