January project round-up
I thought I would do a round up of my January projects as they were a varied bunch. I took advantage of the Boxing Day sales to get some yarn at 40% off to knit […]
Category: No Waste
Christmas gifts / Handmade / No Waste / recycling / Sewing / Sustainability
Christmas Decoration Making
Every year, as part of their Christmas gift, I give Christmas decorations to my brother and his family. Most years I hand make them but I have occasionally been pressed for time and purchased decorations. […]
Upcycled Christmas bags
I started to wrap my Christmas presents on the weekend as I have mostly finished my shopping. I have a good stash of gift bags to reuse and I had three of these Farmers ones […]
Charity Knitting
I had a big bag of yarn leftover from 5 blankets that I had crocheted over the past couple of years so I decided to use it up knitting beanies for a local organisation, Crafting […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini Tomato Sauce
The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]
Homegrown Potatoes
Yesterday we harvested our first attempt at growing potatoes. We didn’t get as many as we were hoping for but we were pleased with the result. We grew them in a coffee sack and they […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini glut!
We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up. I had already made this cake (it was delicious by the […]
Calendar pages to envelopes
While I was visiting my friend in Christchurch, she gave me some old calendars to recycle. She had given me some a couple of years ago and I made envelopes out of them as we […]
Easy Risotto Recipe
I am going to give you the long story of how I came to make this risotto. We order our groceries online and get them delivered and last Friday when they arrived, there was an […]
One cushion, two projects
I had some cushions on the couch that used to be in my sewing room which I transferred to the new day bed that we brought to replace the couch. The covers that were on […]