Hobbies and Projects: How to Create an Art Mosaicme • hobbies & me time • lifestyle • hobbies-me time
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to learn how to mosaic. I was inspired by an artist's work that was showing at the Laguna Festival of Art in California. She had taken common household items, like tea pots and vases, and covered them with bits of broken…
Green Living: Recycling Christmas Trees and Wreathslifestyle • parenting • home management • green living
An authentic Christmas tree is the perfect seasonal decoration. After you bring the outdoors in to trim your home, it is important to take simple steps to properly recycle the beautiful boughs. This year, we decked our halls with a 9-foot Douglas Fir. For our family, a real tree is…
Go Green: How To Go Green and Save Over $1,000Most of us want to become environmentally friendly and make the right choices for ourselves and our families. But sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what to do, or where to find the time to do it! Sometimes we need an extra nudge to change our eco-habits. So we roamed…
Going Green: 20 Creative Ways to Reuse, Repurpose, Reclaim, and Refurbish Household Itemsmy world • global causes • parenting • home management
Going green begins with three easy steps. Step 1: Reduce, Step 2: Reuse, and Step 3: Recycle. These three steps can be completed separately or used interchangeably. However, if we reduce and reuse, we have less to recycle. We've already talked about ways that we can reduce,…
