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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I popped down to Christchurch the weekend before Christmas to visit my oldest friend who had a significant birthday on Christmas Day. We have been friends since we were 11 when we became penpals, she […]
We recently brought a 1974 Akai turntable in mint condition from the amazing and highly recommended WT Audio in Lower Hutt. It belonged to a doctor who had gone into a retirement home and he […]
Here in Wellington we have a number of great thrift shops to choose from and I visit quite regularly. Recently we made a trek out to Upper Hutt as we hadn’t visited the shops out […]
Happy New Year! I thought I would give an update on my slow fashion journey throughout 2020. As mentioned in this post, I pledged not to buy any new clothes for another year after a […]
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 […]
I am doing really well with my pledge to not buy any new clothes this year. I did buy some yarn for my mother – in – law to knit me a jersey but i’m […]
At the start of the year, I decided that I wasn’t going to buy any new clothes this year. Full disclosure, I did buy 5 pairs of undies last month. I was skimming through Instagram […]
Today I was thwarted in my attempt to not use or be given any single use plastic bags during Plastic Free July. I brought my lunch, something I rarely do, and when they gave it […]