I was amused to come across this article supposedly about people who live  in cold houses  by  choice. I’m not sure how much of it was about choice or necessity for most of those interviewed, something I’m sure many people in rental properties can relate to, particularly those with poor heating facilities in their homes. No ones wants to sit in one room under a heater all day or be faced with a ridiculously large gas/electricity bill at the end of winter. So how to keep warm?

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Some of you may know that besides my work at Green Renters, I have my own small craft business where I make items from vintage and reclaimed materials. So I was excited to receive a copy of Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts ( Leisure Arts #4802) (Perfect Paperback).

It details a wide range of recycle craft tutorials including textiles and reusing plastic. I particularly liked the tutorials for the wine cork pin board and patchwork blankets.

It’s a book that would be useful perhaps for a school or those new to recycled crafts

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As the end of the Australian financial year approaches, our calendar over the next couple of weeks is rapidly filling. We have a few spaces left to present workshops nationally, so get in touch to arrange something asap!

Apologies for that headline there, it was cheesy and mildly offensive (to some), but I wanted to grab your attention and tell you about a bunch of great and really interesting links I came across yesterday.

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Some of you may know that besides my work at Green Renters, I have my own small craft business where I make items from vintage and reclaimed materials. So I was excited to recieve a copy of Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts ( Leisure Arts #4802) (Perfect Paperback).

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I would suspect a lot of these compartments would be far too shallow for most container plants but small rocks could be interspersed with the deeper planting for good effect. It’s certainly a great innovative way of recycling an old ‘tackle’ box instead of going out and buying loads of pots and it gets plus points for portability.

As featured on Craft with an easy to follow tutorial.

We talk a lot in our workshops about reducing packaging in the kitchen, especially in relation to food, so imagine our ‘delight’ in finding this great post on SustainLane full of great ideas to achieve just that…

Enjoy!