do stuff! & Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time! I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them! And now for the actual tutorial – for this one, with the step-by-step, I will be making the bottom with 3 holes. My finished Sonic bag!
How to Grow Raspberries Raised beds eliminate root rot The original 20 plants have grown into a full bed from which the author picks 2 gallons of raspberries a day during the summer months, roughly a pint per plant, though the amount tapers off as fall approaches. Raspberry plants hate wet feet, and they are gross feeders. We addressed these two critical points by building a 20-inch-high raised bed and filling it with a mixture of four-fifths good garden topsoil blended with about one-fifth sand, peat, and well-rotted manure. If, like us, you have acidic soil, you will also need to add some lime, because raspberries prefer a soil pH of around 6.0. We left one end of the box open to allow easy access with our wheelbarrows, then closed it in when the box was full. If you have rich, deep soil that drains well year-round, you can simply plant your raspberries in a permanent garden site.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability News, Press Releases, Feeds, Events and More Recycle Used CDs | Making This Home Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about recycling and repurposing odds and ends that can’t go into our recycling bins. The latest target in our house? CDs. Thanks to our decision to go digital, we don’t buy a lot of CDs or DVDs. Not now. Turn CDs into a craft project Curlby and Make-Stuff have both compiled a slew of different projects from disco balls like the one below to clocks and driveway reflectors. Great for kids, RePlayGround has simple ideas for making sun catchers that I know the volunteers at day camp would have been all over if CDs were actually floating around when we were kids. Mail them to Recycling Centers Mail CDs, DVDs, and cases to the CD Recycling Center for a $2.00 donation. Wanna chip in on any ideas you have for recycling or repurposing CDs? As you probably know if you’ve stuck around us, we’re always looking for more recycling topics (Like remember what we found about recycling contacts and glasses? (Images from MakingFriends & CD Recycling Center)
Shampoo Recipe - Make Your Own Shampoo - Natural Shampoo "If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."~ Dale Carnegie We all have hair -- some more, some less. Fine, medium, coarse, light blonde, copper-brown, honey-red, ginger-twist, sun-kissed, winter wheat or ash -- no matter, it's all hair. I actually have a lot of nerve writing anything about hair. What I can write about with authority, though, is that daily care with wholesome products can help keep your hair -- if you've got it -- strong and strikingly beautiful. Now once you've made your selection and finally commence the act of shampooing, remember to always massage your scalp slowly but thoroughly with your fingertips, to vigorously stimulate the circulation of blood on the skin wrapping around your skull. I know, I know, you're automatically saying to yourself, "rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat" because every commercially produced shampoo bottle has brainwashed us to do this. Knead a few tablespoons of olive oil into your dry scalp and hair.
Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation ”Normal” Jobs are a Safety Net for Entrepreneurs The right incentives can go a long way towards successful entrepreneurship. How does a functional, healthy labor market help entrepreneurs? Startup Activity Gains Momentum in Most States and Metros, According to Latest Kauffman Startup Index The majority of U.S. states and largest metropolitan areas experienced an increase in new business creation Ag Tech and Flood Response is shaping Cedar Rapids Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Entrepreneurial growth and scale since the Great Recession will undoubtedly be hot topics at the Mayor's Summit Cross-program Initiatives We support large-scale initiatives that complement the Foundation's core Education and Entrepreneurship work. Millennials and the Platform Economy As Millennials are becoming an increasing part of the adult population; how does the platform economy impact their path to economic independence? Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship Shifts to Growthology PDE’s Last Call Why Competition Matters
Create Something Saturday's- DIY Stencil Art | 8th Continent Soymilk Blog - StumbleUpon by 8thlopez on July 26, 2010 If you are a fan of graffiti or any type of street art, chances are you have come across an artist named Banksy who does impeccable stencil art installations and is now a world-renowned artist, even though he keeps his identity a secret. You may not be an aspiring Banksy, but would like to make some stencil art yourself. If you follow these directions you will be able to easily make stencil art of your own all by doing a quick picture edit, printing it out, cutting it out, and then painting! What you will need: A printer with black inkXacto KnifePaintsCard Stock Weight PaperCanvasRegular Paint BrushSponge Paint BrushBright Colored Marker Directions: The first thing you want to do is find a picture that you would like to make into a stencil. Recolor the picture to grayscale. Turn the contrast all the way up to 100%. After you have printed the picture, take a bright marker and trace the parts that you will be cutting out. WARNING! “Oh cool stencil art?!? “Me.”
Transparency - Walk This Way More Infographics on Good Soothe Winter Skin with this Homemade Sugar Scrub Winter skin has been an issue for me, for as long as I can remember. All summer long I swim, garden and hike around in the Southern California sun. Occasionally I will leave my skin outdoors for too long, turning it bright pink (never the deep, creamy brown my mom and sister have) but it always bounces right back to my soft, milk-white and freckly skin. In the winter months however, my skin completely dries out on me. Winter is when my skin should love me! I’m indoors a lot more during the colder months, and pay more attention to diet, lotions, and even the temperature of my showers… and yet without fail, every year my arms get itchy and dry patches that resemble the lower half of Daryl Hanna in Splash. This year, I’m fighting back against winter skin with a homemade sugar scrub. This scrub not only feels amazing, it also smells amazing, is so cheap to put together, and it requires only FIVE ingredients. White sugar Whole Vanilla Beans Olive Oil (Or Mineral Oil) * Hi friends!
All You Need for Fresh Air: 3 Essential Green Plants by LiveOAK Staff on March 22, 2009 All you need for fresh air. Seventeen years ago Kamal Meattle found out that the air in his home city of Dehli was killing him. The Areca Palm (or Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) is does great air cleansing work during the day. Kamal Meattle According to Meattle if you have sufficient quantities of these plants you could live in an air tight bubble and as long as the plants are living you'd have enough fresh air to live. The Indian Government has rated the building the healthiest buidling in Delhi, and studies have shown that after spending 10 hours in the building your body will be working better than before. Aside from being a natural and beatiful source of fresh air, this method also helps reduce energy consumption, because you don't need to filter or bring fresh air in. Now Meattle, has big plans. Check out his site: GreenSpaces via: TED About the Author:
How To Make Your Own $35 Straw Mattress | The Year of Mud: Cob and natural building (This lovely DIY how-to is written by my partner April, who recently made a fantastic straw mattress for the cob bed. Not only is it entirely natural, it’s pretty super to sleep on, too. Read ahead!) Living in a hand-built home can often mean making unique and non-conventional furniture choices. I recently transitioned from a tent to a cob house and ran into the dilemma of what to do about a bed. Why not to buy a conventional mattress I looked at some conventional mattresses. Traditional mattress materials What about making my own mattress? Making a tick I needed to make a simple sack, traditionally called a tick, to serve as the mattress cover. My mattress would rest on a cob platform pressed against a curved wall along one side. Designing a template Next, I laid the paper template on my fabric and added an inch to each side (2 inches added to the total width, 2 inches to the total length). Pinning and sewing the fabric Next, I pinned and pinned and pinned. Stuffing the mattress