Recycled Gift Bows...

I MUST make some of these Recycled gift bows. Made from recycled magazine pages. I love how they look!

Bibs...

Just got Avery some of these fantastic fused bibs! They look really wipable, eco-friendly, and the price was really good! =o)

Sassy Green

Just signed up for this Eco-Friendly newsletter. Small "bite sized" ideas for light green living. =o)

Recycled Crayons..

I definitely want to make these Recycled Crayons sometime. =o)

Craft: Book marks from calendar backs..

Calendars can be a great source of craft material. When I was in college.. I used the pages from an old calendar as pictures on my otherwise-dreary walls. I took the back cover and turned them into book marks for all my different school books. This is a very quick & easy craft. =o)



NEEDED:
- Calendar with miniature pictures on back
- Scissors


Here is what the back of each of the above calendars look like:

See how they have mini versions of all the calendar pages in rows? Look at how they are laid out and decide which way you want to cut them (Most calendars I've seen you usually can cut them into rows of 3 or 2).

Here are some bookmarks that I cut out in rows of 4:


Here are some bookmarks that I cut out in rows of 3:


Quick, easy, pretty, and durable. =o)

Now thats a Shoe-in

Check out these Birdhouses made from shoes.

Beginning to Recycle

I have never lived anywhere that had curb-side recycling.. and I'm ashamed to admit that it never occured to me to search these places out. With our recent switch to cloth diapering, it's really opened my eyes to what we could be recycling. I've been playing phone tag with the gentleman at our local Recycling center for weeks now.. and I finally caught him on the phone today. Here are the items they accept:

* Glass (clear & plastic)
* Plastics (1,2,5 & 6)
* Cardboard
* Paper (newspaper & office)
* Magazines
* Yardwaste
* Scrap metal
* Aluminum

Once we take it to the recycling center we will put it into the bins with like items, so we do not have to package it up. I was expecting them to only say 1&2 for plastics.. so I'm real happy about 5&6 (i.e. my yogurt containers are 5's I believe!)

This past weekend Randy & I picked up our trashcans to set up for recycling. (Will come back and insert picture here). I'm really excited about this!