Taking a blog break to catch up on work stuff and kitty stuff - back soon, though! (ok, hiatus is, by definition, temporary, but you know what I mean)
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50 summer crafts for kids
Rachel tweeted about this great list of summer kid crafts on The Long Thread - everything from sunprinting to kaleidoscopes to making ice cream in a coffee can.
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No regular post today as I’m dealing with kitty issues, but look! Adorable zoo babies! Scroll down for more snow leopard wonderfulness at our own Woodland Park Zoo!
Contests and free stuff - late June
One Pretty Thing has teamed up with Friends of Socktopus to give away a sock dog kit and a sock monkey kit.
Simply Green is having a contest to win a recycled glass curtain rod set.
Orange You Lucky has some really cute downloadable bookplates!
Instructables always has a couple of contests going - currently there is the [...]
Hugelkultur raised beds
I really love Trace Ramsey’s writing at Cricket Bread; I’m always learning something over on his blog - this essay about becoming a farmer is a great example of the poetry and heart in his prose. He recently did a status update on his hugelkultur raised beds - I’d never heard of them before. They’re [...]
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Ikea chicken coop
Ikea Hacker has a great chicken coop constructed with parts from an Ikea bunk bed, storage unit, and bottle rack.
Posted in DIY, Garden, Recycled Tagged chickens, furniture, Garden, making things, Recycled 2 Comments
Recycled salad box
I’ve always really liked the proportions of Satsuma crates, and the labels are often charming, too. During a recent closet cleaning, I ran across one I’d tucked away and realized it would make a really cute mini-container garden.
I lined the box with a recycled plastic bag and poked some holes in it over the holes [...]
Posted in DIY, Garden, Recycled Tagged food, Garden, growing, Kids, making things, Recycled 2 Comments
Make your own coloring books
Here’s another cute, cheap kid’s project - Chez Beeper Bebe has a tutorial on building your own coloring books; they’re very cute, and she has a lot of online sources of coloring pages. This would be a fun project for an older child to make for a younger child. Via WhipUp
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Recycling crayons
It’s probably too soon for kids to be bored with summer break, but I’m going to start sharing some frugal kid-projects from around the net. I found a few posts about reusing small bits of crayons to make big crayons. Zakka Life used candy molds to recycle old crayons into cute shapes. Daily Danny melted [...]
Rocket stove mass heater
I know we’re coming into hot weather so people aren’t thinking about winter heating, but here’s some great info about building a rocket stove mass heater. There’s a discussion thread about it here.