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Wondering what to do with your old bathroom cabinet or vanity? Turn it into a pint-sized DIY kid art table! We recently remodeled our upstairs bathroom and decided to reuse an old cabinet we had in there as a DIY kid art table for our two children. This is quite a labor-intensive project and cost about $60 in supplies, but considering this style of art table runs upwards of $200 brand new, it seemed like time and money well spent—especially as we were able to feel good about putting parts of the old cabinet to good use....

Got a closet full of clothes that just need a little love? Or maybe you’re thrifting-obsessed and just need some motivation to turn your finds into something really special! Either way, Wardrobe Refashion might be just the thing you need! So what is Wardrobe Refashion? It’s a collaborative blog where membership opens up periodically, and it just so happens that they’re looking for participants now until August 31st! Check out their awesome pledge: The guidelines for the challenge are simple, and this looks like a great chance to get your recycling on!...

This cute, DIY tie tack makes a great Father’s Day gift, or you can give one to a tie-wearing fella in your life, just because. Father’s Day is on June 21st — which is only a few weeks away! If you’re struggling with what to get your dad, this diy tie tack is a great gift that you can make easily. Not only does making a Father’s Day gift help you skip the impact of buying new from a big box store, but handmade items are full of love and are totally fun to make....

My husband and I are expecting our very first child, so I have baby crafts on the brain! I’ve got a couple of new mommas in my life right now, and it’s been educational hanging with them and seeing what toys their kiddos like. One toy I’d never seen but is apparently great for babies is a crinkle toy. Sure, you can buy a crinkle from the store, but with a few things from your stash, this is an easy DIY toy to whip up at home!...

And our Christmas holiday crafts! Last week, I showed you all of my favorite felt ornaments. Here, then, are some of my other favorite felt crafts that I make around Christmas-time. The simpler projects are perfect for, say, my Girl Scout troop to work on during our holiday camping weekend. I prefer the more sophisticated, detail-oriented projects that keep my hands busy during family gatherings or while waiting in the carline to pick up my kid from yet another five-hour Nutcracker rehearsal....

Like bamboo fabric, soy is produced from plant material and advertised as being extremely eco-friendly. We’ve looked at the pros and cons of bamboo fabric before, and it turns out that bamboo isn’t the wonder-fabric it’s touted to be. With careful label-reading, it’s possible to find bamboo that’s more responsibly produced. Still, organic cotton or hemp seem like much better options. I’d been seeing a lot of companies boasting products made from soy fabric and thought it was time to look into it....

EcoSpun felt is made from post-consumer recycled PET plastic bottles. It’s sold in a 72″ width for $5.99 a yard with a minimum order of one yard. PET, in case you were wondering, is polyethylene terephthalate. PET is the plastic used to make #1 bottles. There are issues with plastic recycling, and I’d rather see fewer plastic bottles made and used in the first place, but since they exist I’m glad there are some options for using them to make new products....

We love recycled felt around here! Ecofi felt is made from post-consumer plastic bottles, which means that every time you use it in your crafting, you’re helping to divert plastic waste from the landfills. Not too shabby, right? If synthetic felt isn’t your thing, you can also make your own reclaimed felt using wool sweaters that you score at the thrift store. Want to try making your own upcycled felt?...

Have you been hunting for food safe fabric to make DIY snack bags? I found a solution for you! My DIY snack bag tutorial has consistently been one of the most popular posts on the site for quite some time now. The tutorial is a simple one, and what’s really bumpin’ on that article is the comments section. There has been a ton of discussion about finding a food safe fabric that’s water resistant and free from plastics....

Did you read my review of Knit Picks Full Circle yarn yesterday? Do you want to check out some of this 100% reclaimed wool yarn for yourself? You’re in luck! Knit Picks is giving away three skeins of their Full Circle yarn to two (count them, TWO) lucky winners! Read on to discover all the ways that you can enter this giveaway. Notes: The contest is open to those living in the Continental U....

When my kids were still at the “trick-or-treating” age, I started a costume swap in our school district. I was tired of seeing outsized costumes in boxes in my basement and I thought they’d be better served by making other kids a “Darth Vader” or a “Ninja”. So muscling my weight around a little as a PTA board member, I started a costume recycling program where parents can bring their kids costumes to swap....

Halloween is on a Friday this year, which means it’s time to par-TAY! (That’s “party” for those of you who haven’t been to one in a while.) I’ve got a few friends who are throwing bashes on Saturday too. It seems people’s need to get their “freak on” really comes to life when Halloween falls on a weekend. So with a growing list of ghoulish get-togethers, there’s not much time to think about a host/hostess gift....

The homemade popsicle above might not look like much. Mind you, it mostly looks wonky because I was licking it before I took the photo. Regardless, it tastes AMAZING. It has a layer of homemade fudgesicle made from cocoa, maple syrup, and yogurt on the bottom, a layer of raspberry jam on top of that, a layer of honey-sweetened Greek yogurt on top of THAT, and a layer of fudgesicle blended with peanut butter and even more raspberry jam on the very top....

Brr! It’s getting chilly out there again. Wristwarmers can add an extra layer of cozy to your winter look, but the store-bought kind often aren’t the most eco-friendly. Chances are, they’re mass-produced in a factory using conventional cotton (with all of the issues that come along with it). You can skip the human rights and environmental issues, though, and make your very own set of wristwarmers out of a thrift store sweater instead!...

I’ve seen recycled map art projects all over Pinterest and I was just waiting for an opportunity to create one, too. After returning from Guatemala this week, I was inspired to make my own eco-friendly version! What You Will Need: A junk mail envelope. I used one that had a cool pattern inside: A black marker A scrap piece of paper A magazine Crayons A picture frame School glue. If you can, use eco-glue....

There’s one big difference, however, between this project and those awesome 80s kits, and that difference is what makes getting back into latch hooking a terrifically eco-friendly activity: whereas latch hook kits almost universally use acrylic yarn, the latch hook creation that you make yourself, from a pattern that you create yourself, can use ANY YARN YOU WANT. Any yarn! Wool yarn! Plarn! Cotton yarn! Or, my favorite of all yarns to use–STASH YARN!...

My own personal rule is that when I’m out shopping with my girlies and they desperately desire something I don’t want to buy them–it’s too expensive, it has too much plastic or packaging, the ingredients contain anything high-fructose or partially-hydrogenated, etc.–when we’re back home, we figure out a DIY approximation of the coveted item. We’ve had some hits (agar agar gelatin is even tastier than Jello, and homemade plaster of Paris figurines are just as much fun to paint as the over-priced store-bought version) and some misses (if no substitutions are good enough and a child still covets that Playmobil Egyptian pyramid set a whopping 18 months later, then it turns out that it makes an AWESOME birthday present), but overall the method works quite well if you can figure out what exactly about the store-bought item is so appealing to the child, so you know what aspects to replicate....

These wood burned stick plant markers have no paint to fade, no glue to lose its adhesion, no sketchy materials to worry about leaching into the ground, no artificial substances that will sit around forever if I neglect to collect them from the garden! A nice, thick stick will stay serviceable for several years, it will never lose its contrast with its wood burned label, and when I’m done with it, it’ll happy decompose wherever I leave it, benefiting the soil as it does....

What You Will Need: Old candy boxes Chalkboard paint Primer (optional) How To Do It: Take apart your candy boxes. You should probably also wipe them down in case you have any candy residue left inside. I would recommend priming the outside of the candy boxes first. I did not do this step, and found that the writing/designs on the boxes kept bleeding through. I had to do a lot of coats of chalkboard paint (therefore wasting my beloved craft supply)....

Who needs washi tape when it’s this easy to make your own decorative tape? And for bonus DIY points, you can use up your narrowest strips of stash fabric and your most interesting pieces of vintage paper to make these tapes. This DIY decorative tape project is the quickest and the easiest. All you need is double-sided tape, your favorite paper or fabric, and scissors! Choose your double-sided tape. DIY decorative tape is such an extremely versatile project in large part because double-sided tape comes in a ton of different sizes and strengths....