Less Waste Living – Page 4 – Jake + Maya [Kids]

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CA 14 January, 2016 Comments off

Inspiration: 10 Easy Clothes

Following on from last weeks inspiration and clearing out the clutter, this week I want to show you some really easy clothes upcycles/refahions. It's about repurposing what you have so it doesn't end up in landfill and it saves you a money, too!

It's time to rummage through your wardrobe

CA 04 January, 2016 Comments 2

Inspiration: 10 ways to

Happy New Year! I know many of us start the year promising to make time to get creative, indulge in a passion or try something new. And we all like to start a new year cleaning out the clutter. So with all this in mind, I thought we'd start the year with a post on how to

jakeandmaya1 10 October, 2015 Comments off

Simple Steps to Planting

My son loves pineapples and we do tend to get them quite often. But this is the first time we actually got around to doing this, planting the pineapple top. Super simple and very satisfying when/if it starts growing...

Cut off the top of the pineapple.

Separate

jakeandmaya1 09 October, 2015 Comment 1

Improved By Me

Instagram for me isn't just a great way to show my work and connect with my followers but also a great way to find new inspiration and ideas. Just this morning, I came across the lovely Improvedbyme. Swedish Jessica Olander, the creative force behind Improved by Me, is a graphic designer

jakeandmaya1 14 September, 2015 Comments off

Home-made Fruit Roll-ups

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Pick 3-4 Large Apples ( I find a mixture of cooking apples and eating apples work best.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_917" align="aligncenter" width="600"]

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jakeandmaya1 20 July, 2015 Comments 2

Get Weaving

A few weeks ago, at a village fair, Little Maya discovered peg weaving and fell in love with it. She wouldn't leave the stand and pretty much spent the entire afternoon weaving. Of course, being the lovely mother that I am, I looked up some peg looms online, thinking I'd get her

jakeandmaya1 04 June, 2015 Comments 2

From Garden to Plate

Gooseberries are relatively easy to grow, as it grows in most soil types and doesn't need too much tending to. Ours has been here few years and even with my previous lack of gardening skills and/or effort, it always produced lots of berries each season but recently, I learnt that

jakeandmaya1 19 May, 2015 Comments off

Secret hide-out

The kids have been asking me to build them a tree house for some time but with the lack of mature trees in our garden, we were a bit stuck. But one day, we came up with a genius idea (well, at least the kids thought it was). What we used: