I’ve just posted a little article over at my other blog, Green Girls Global, on 5 tips for crafting green.

I’m sure more experienced crafters will have lots more gems on how to recycle and cut down waste when making, so please do share them. If you send me your green crafting tips (either here or at GGG) I’ll compile another list and publish it, with your tip credited to you of course :)

Every time I look at this booklet my heart leaps. This is so unashamedly 70s it makes me smile imagining how people (perhaps even the author Yvonne Dockree) may have made a glass peanut bowl from an old wine bottle to serve at parties alongside prawn cocktails and black forest gateau. Brilliant!

My mother-in-law gave me this Bottle Chopper last year when she cleared out lots of craft stuff to move house. I fell in love with the idea of it instantly but didn’t get around to having a go with it until yesterday. Continue Reading »