Sustainability

  • How to Recycle Paint Cans

    How to recycle your paint cans  Crowns Can Back Scheme On my instagram a few weeks ago I asked my audience if they recycled their paint cans. It was followed by a lot of interesting conversations in my direct messages.  The most common topic that people were asking was how exactly do you recycle your empty paint cans?  […]

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  • Sew A Kimono

    Sew a bed sheet into a Kimono in under an hour It’s my final Challenge with eBay Ireland. eBay have challenged me to create something new from something old. If you want to check out the other two challenges, you can find them HERE and HERE. Even though these challenges were quite hard (they don’t […]

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  • Upcycled Wash bag

    Ebay set me a challenge to create something new from something old, using Ebay.ie. I always accept a challenge and set off to see could I create something unexpected and different. It’s great fun to open your creative mind and have a play around with all the possibilities. I headed over to http://www.ebay.ie picked up […]

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  • Removing Chalk paint

    removing chalk paint

      I really didn’ t think that I would be un-cycling a piece of furniture but here we are. I often get asked how do you remove chalk paint to get it back to the wood grain and this was the perfect project to share how to do that. Ercol Mid Century furniture is hands […]

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  • DIY Hendricks Gin Lamp

    diy hendricks gin lamp

    I love the shape of the Hendrick’s Gin bottle, it’s one of those Bottles that you hang onto and don’t want throw it into the recycling because it’s got too much potential. DIY Hendricks Bottle Lamp I drew out this cucumber shape (Hendricks Gin is made with Cucumber and Rose Botanicals) I cut the shape […]

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