Reinventing my messy desk
Forty years ago, when I was a kid, we always reused paper bags. We didn’t call it, “being environmentally friendly,” we called it “being poor.”
Here are a collection of tips compiled by Real Simple magazine:
Plastic Bags
1. Use them to keep dust off out-of-season shoes and out-of-favour stuffed animals stored in the closet.
2. Make parachutes […]
…furniture, not the store. Our home is full of IKEA products. Whether you’re a creative type who likes to re-work items to new forms or looking to make better use of what you own or needing a creative solution to a storage problem, ikea hacker has lots of ideas to get you started.
i like tinkering […]
This is the type of paper craft I can manage: download a PDF pattern, print and build.
Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.
Fwis […]
At Christmas I folded my own gift card envelopes using seasonal paper. It was quite easy, and turned out to look good. Here’s a folded-paper version of the CD case.
Instead of paying good cash for cd cases, which eventually break and end up in a landfill, how about creating your own, unique folded-paper cd […]
