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My favourite British green/simple living/craft blogs
I read A LOT of green/simple living blogs – some religiously, others only when the subject particularly appeals. There is such a wealth of knowledge out there and inspirational actions, not from proclaimed experts or media stars but from a range of people living (or trying to live) “simpler” lives. (I share my favourite posts [...]
10 goals for 2010
To make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown, raised, caught or killed myself. To travel to a place on my “top ten places to go before I die” list. Finish writing my second novel. Learn how to make sausages – wet English style ones and cured ones too. Spend at least a day fishing [...]
Old shirt into cute hankies
We needed some hankies and I remembered I had an old pink gingham school shirt in my scrap bag. I’d got the shirt secondhand from a charity shop in Liverpool in about 1999 but I’ve put a littleweight on since then so it didn’t fit any more, and it had little sweat stains under the [...]
Dragonflies on flowers
Just playing with some wire this afternoon. Fingers hurt now.
Making buttons from Fimo
(Second button related post in a row, heh.) I bought a new-to-me cord jacket at a charity shop in Portobello while visiting Edinburgh recently* and it had big feature buttons on it. I very much liked the idea of feature buttons but unfortunately I didn’t like the actual buttons used. A trip to my usual [...]
Button earrings
Following a query from a reader yesterday, I’m doing a post on buttons on Recycle This next week and wanted to post a(n admittedly not great) picture of my most favourite earrings in the whole wide world ;) I wear the dangly ones all the freakin’ time and they constantly get caught in my scarves [...]