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How to go green
I know many people say it's hard to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle because it's so expensive, but you can go greener without spending more - in fact, you can go green and save money! It's all about less consumption. By consuming less, we are budgeting by default. So
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Fashion Revolution Week
Fashion Revolution Week is from the 23-29th April this year. This date falls on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. This tragedy, which should never have been able to happen, killed 1138 people and injured many more. The focus of Fashion Revolution Week is the #whomademyclothes campaign.
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Natural Easter Egg Dye
Easter is soon to be upon us and as we try to live a more conscious lifestyle but also have some Easter fun, we thought we'd pull together lots of natural dye recipes for eggs! All you need is household ingredients and white vinegar, so save those onion skins and
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Meet the Remaker: Diti
Today we're chatting with Diti from the amazing Théla.
Théla crochets and sews products with yarn made out of discarded plastic bags, thus preventing plastic waste from filling our landfills, polluting our oceans and harming our wildlife.
EXCLUSIVE Shop Théla and 
Meet The Founder: Tze
Tze Ching Yeung is the owner and founder of Jake + Maya [Kids], a slow fashion brand for fast growing kids, thriving to help reduce textile waste by making kids clothing last longer than a couple of growth spurts.
Today we thought we'd 
Homemade Christmas: Gift ideas
I love a DIY Christmas present — not just because it's a great way to keep the cost of Christmas down, but because it makes every gift a thoughtful one. You're giving your time, which we all know is very precious. There's an added bonus too, giving yourself time to
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Meet the re-maker: Jessica
Improved by Me is a side project that Jessica Olander started doing when she desperately needed to find her way back to creativity again. Jessica started drawing on ceramics that she had at home; cups, plates, planters, and when she had 
Green Halloween: Costumes and
Happy almost Halloween! We do love this time of the year - mostly for the crafts and the change in season. The dark nights are cosy and of course, Halloween. We have seen the whole Halloween 'thing' take off in the last few years here in the UK, people are
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Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose: Tin
Last week I shared with you some ways to repurpose paper to create works or art, this week I wanted to show you what all those tin cans can be used for - and with Christmas on the horizon, I thought I'd throw in a few Christmas themed ideas, too.
Tin
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Inspired by Chie Hitotsuyama
I often share over on my Facebook page some amazing art installations created using recycled materials, like the animal sculptures comprised of densely rolled newspaper by artist Chie Hitotsuyama.
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I know we don't all have the time, or skill, to create such masterpieces but there are some fabulous
