After several years of making tiny changes, its easy to forget how far we've come, and how those little changes add up. This year, I'll be doing a few posts to remind us of the posts of the past, and all the cool ways we've learned to save money, save the planet, all while having fun and looking fabulous.
Today, let's look back at the awesome DIY projects we've done, from crafts, to mending, and more.
1. Corks are great for crafting - we made trivets.
2. Seasonal shopping bags make great wall art.
3. We acquired secondhand fabric for sewing gift bags from Re-Creative.
4. We propagated many new succulents from a single plant. (The offspring are still around 3 1/2 years later!)
5. A stained old concert tee gets a second life as a reusable shopping bag.
6. Cut up TP tubes become festive snowflake and poinsettia ornaments.
7. A quick-sew project converts an old bed sheet into a laundry hamper liner.
8. Leftover cardboard (coffee sleeves, TP tubes, and a box) made the best gift for my cat.
9. And old t-shirts made great rope toys for my dog.
10. Scrap cardboard made a birthday cake piñata for Mom's birthday.
11. The family came together for a group DIY, turning scrap lumber and paint into cornhole boards for family weekends.
12. A quick coat of paint gave us a refreshed doormat for the next year.
13. We turned a mason jar and some scrap fabric into a cute sewing kit.
14. A balloon from one holiday becomes wrapping paper for the next.
15-18. There have been several years of upcycled Halloween costumes:
2017: Ursula
2019: Rock Lobster
2020: Tacocat
2022: Klimt painting Adele Bloch-Bauer
19. Mending (visible or hidden) allows you to extend the life of your clothing.
20. We repaired a cracked bowl with the kintsugi method.
21.And just recently, we made an epic, crazy, oversized snowglobe.
