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Brian made some glass tumblers out of wine and beer bottles! Check them out: We have them for sale on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Earthystyle?section_id=8048089 To see more of these fabulous creations, go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trula/sets/72157626547112996/with/5641323279/
I reuse containers to store more food in. Pictured are almonds, peanuts, and popcorn.
The Valentine’s Day gifts I got for my husband, all nicely wrapped up. I made the gift bag/box out of a cereal box and newspaper and wrapped the rest of the gifts in cloth. He got me 2 big lovely plants! which I love love love.
Head wrap I made from an old skirt of my daughter’s (very old, she’s 19 and she got the skirt when she was 8). My mother got her the outfit the skirt is from, so I especially wanted to keep it and do something with it. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for [...]
We had some old tiles and wood. We needed some tables for the patio Brian built last summer. He made some. He rocks! He’s made 3 so far, two square ones and one long rectangle one. He’s going to make some high square one for my bookstore also, excitement! We both get such joy out [...]
My husband fixed the legs on our picnic table, sanded it down, and gave it fresh coat of paint. Subscribe to Family Footprint by Email This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!
Every year I make my kids a quilt for Christmas. The first two are made from old sweat shirt material from my husband with the backing being old sheets of theirs. The last two I made from jeans and the center pieces are from old Power Rangers sweatshirt of theirs. I am currently working on [...]
My outfit for today! This is a skirt I recently made out of other clothes. The black drawstring waistband is from a pair of shorts I could no longer fit, the blue/teal bottom is from a house dress that also became to loose for me on the top due to weight loss, and the yellow [...]
Freecycle is made up of 4,137 groups with 3,944,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Stuff I’ve gotten through freecyle: good condition futon mattress, books, [...]
I am making 2 kitchen mats out of plastic grocery bags. I will be done with them by the end of the month. It’s going slow now because I only work on them when I’m watching TV, and I just don’t watch a lot of TV. Subscribe to Family Footprint by Email
I’d like to share ideas on how we each choose to reduce our ecological impact. I’ll be doing a separate post on each of these things, just wanted to get this out there. Here are some things I do: – I have reduced the amount of garbage I add to landfills by composting organic waste [...]
Here I am in the apron I made from an old sheet, and old skirt, and the pocket is from an old pair of jeans. Now I have a NEW apron! Which I badly needed. Now I have one without spending money or making an impact on the environment. Yay! Subscribe to Family Footprint by [...]
I wanted to share a little of the upcycling I’ve been doing lately. Or actually reconstructed clothing, ahem. This falls into both the frugal category and the green category, as this saves me money and I’m not contributing to the production of these things. I had an old pair of jeans that my kids called [...]
One of the recycling bins around my city. They have these at all the schools for anyone in the community to drop off paper. The paper gets sold to a bulk recycler and the school system gets a cut. Pretty cool, huh? This is where we dump all our newspaper, old magazines, and shredded junk [...]
I hand-sewed cloth pads last week. Basically I used old sweater and sweatshirt material for the inside and out. I cut a rectangle of material for the inside part, doubled or triple-folded it depending on the thickness of the material, then sewed the outside part up. Very simple and basic; each pad took about 10 [...]
Look what we found when cleaning out the basement! An old school manual lawnmower, the kind you have to push that runs on pure people power. There was an article in the paper a month or so ago about more people buying manual lawnmowers, and I was telling my husband perhaps we should get one. [...]
We were cleaning out the basement the other day and look what I found! I was just going to buy a watering can, so I am thrilled. To think this was sitting in my basement, all this time! It’s perfect. It makes watering my balcony veggies so much easier. Before, to water them I would [...]
- I'm Trula and this is my blog out how my family lives simple and green. Topics include recycling, growing organic food, housing alternatives, meal-planning, crafting, thrifty living, DIY, and more. a sister site to Earthy Style, Family Earthprint is part of the MSPmedia network.
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