Posted in crafts, gift ideas, recycling on September 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
~George Eliot i.e. Mary Anne Evans, 19th-century British Novelist
Here in England the autumn is rolling in quite quickly. By far my absolute favorite season, it has that crisp, heady […]
Posted in crafts, recycling, yoga on August 20th, 2008 12 Comments »
A few months ago I took up yoga, and have so far observed many things about it and about myself. I won’t bore you with the details.
There are two things that apply widely though: you have muscles that you have never dreamed of in places you’ve never felt. And, going with […]
Posted in crafts, recycling on December 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
There are always so many little tiny pieces of yarn that are left over after a knit or crochet project.
They get trimmed from color changes, from adding on a new ball here and there and from portions of store-bought yarn that should never have made it through quality control.
I hate throwing them away. Ever […]
Posted in crafts, gift ideas, holidays on November 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Today is THAT day. Black Friday, the most evil, spendthrift, Chinese-import shopping day of the year.
Some of those “Green” types of people started a little thing a few years ago called “Buy Nothing Day.” in the spirit of which I thought I would post on my plans for making more gifts this year than […]
Posted in crafts, recycling on November 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
That’s right. This post was going to be titled Shred & Pour: Recycling Soap Ends, but the universe had other ideas.
What was to be a simple exercise in melting those little pieces of unusable soap that are left over at the end of the bar turned into an exercise in frustration and stinky kitchens.
My […]
