Comments on Towards Sustainability: Back to Basics Day #14

LOL Polly :-D At least this appliance was a care...

2007-11-15T13:34:00.000+11:00

LOL Polly :-D At least *this* appliance was a carefully considered purchase - as opposed to the impulse buys we used to make - and I had been looking for a suitable one second-hand for a while before buying it.

Hi Lis, thanks for the tips! (Yes they make sense, LOL). I've found some excellent ideas online, I'm actually quite enthusiastic about doing them! I think the family portrait idea is excellent, something I'd like to do in future.

Hi Ali, more great tips thanks :-) Now I'm scrounging around the house, all the "rubbish" has a whole new light on it, LOL.

Hi Gwyn, thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them :-) I'm enjoying doing them.

Cheers, Julie

I love these posts.

2007-11-15T07:44:00.000+11:00

I love these posts.

I have done a lot of card making over the past few...

2007-11-14T21:57:00.000+11:00

I have done a lot of card making over the past few years for both birthdays and Christmas's. I recycle a lot of coloured card from things like tissue boxes, paper bags from shops, packaging etc. even from the card/paper layers from boxes of chocloates I've been given. Remember that Christmas cards don't have to be in just red, green, silver and gold colours ~ they look great in using other colours too!!

I have thought about getting an icecream maker as ...

2007-11-14T20:37:00.000+11:00

I have thought about getting an icecream maker as my children love a small serving after dinner, sometimes with fresh fruit.
As far as cards go you cna find lots of simple ideas online. Using squares or strips of coloured paper(even wrapping paper) works well. Thne you can just print out some simple words on white recycled papaer, cut into strips to go across the top.
This year I am hoping to do some family portraits (a friend is going to take them for me) - print them in black and while and stick them onto a blank card. Then I will embelish with either a printed message form my computer (thousands of free fonts out there!) or ise some of my existing christmas stamps :)
Hope this helps. Email me if you can't understans what I mean :)

I think you'll be glad you bought the icecream mak...

2007-11-14T19:24:00.000+11:00

I think you'll be glad you bought the icecream maker. I've put away the microwave oven, the electric wok, the sandwich press, the food processor, the blender, the bread maker, the coffee maker and the coffee grinder!! I'm embarrassed by that list but we didn't buy them all, some of them were gifts.

I'm even experimenting with no fridge this week BUT I'm not giving up the ice cream maker or the toaster and I have the stick blender hidden away just in case the mortar and pestle or the potato masher aren't enough.:-)

Comments on Towards Sustainability: Back to Basics Day #14

LOL Polly :-D At least *this* appliance was a care...

I love these posts.

I have done a lot of card making over the past few...

I have thought about getting an icecream maker as ...

I think you'll be glad you bought the icecream mak...

LOL Polly :-D At least this appliance was a care...