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5 things you can do with empty milk cartons

Here’s 5 fun and useful ways to recycle milk or juice cartons!

1. Make a wallet

Cut down the side of the carton, and cut as pictured. Fold in half, and cut the bottom section up the centre, and v-shaped cuts in the centre of the middle section.

Fold the bottom section up, then [...]

How to crochet a lace basket

Crochet baskets are a pretty way to store and display bits and bobs – today I’d like to show you how to make a crochet lace basket from ordinary cotton yarn. The basket is stiffened with a generous coat of water-based varnish, though you can also use liquid starch.

You’ll need:

Cotton yarn and crochet [...]

Thursday roundup – robots and buckyballs, oh my

Hey hey

It’s been a pretty fab week here – I celebrated my 100th post, I’ve got a few more hours at one of my jobs (4 brand new kids classes), and I’m madly in lurve *lol*

And my rhubarb seeds sprouted – yay!

So what else has been tickling my fancy this week? [...]

Cardboard craft – Tetris organiser

It’s been a while since we looked at how to make cardboard furniture – today I’d like to revisit the topic and show you how to make this customisable Tetris-themed organiser. This time, rather than corrugated cardboard, I worked with thin cardstock. Cardboard would have been better, but I didn’t have enough on hand to [...]

How to crochet a Tawashi

Tawashi, or ‘eco scrubbies’, a popular small crochet project in Japan, are small dishcloths or pot scrubbers made from acrylic yarn. The benefit of acrylic is that it is amazingly good at removing food particles from dishes, meaning you need less soap for greasy dishes, and no soap at all for ordinary washing-up. This is [...]

Periodic table - make cardboard furniture (part 2)

In our last post, we glued together layers of cardboard and prepared our periodic table decoration to make a cardboard table. Today, we’ll cut out and assemble our table.

First step is to mark the cut lines. The easiest way to mark out the tabletop is to lay out all the bits of your periodic [...]

Periodic table - make cardboard furniture

Ever wanted to make your own furniture, but don’t have tools, space, or woodworking skills? Well it is possible to make sturdy, usable, unique furnishings yourself, out of something most people have lying around at home – the humble corrugated cardboard box. Flimsy though it may seem, cardboard furniture can be very strong. Today I’m [...]

Make children's play furniture from milk cartons

For this week’s Saturday Quickie, I’d like to share a tip about how to make kids play furniture from nothing more than milk cartons, newspaper, and parcel tape. You can make comfy child-size armchairs, tables, couches, beds – all lightweight yet sturdy and strong enough to take even an adult’s weight.

You need:

Milk or [...]

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