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Stories - Recycling
My worm diary
Make it and Mend it member Seamus from Vermont USA sent us this piece about his experience raising Red Wiggler worms in a wormery - he wants to dispel any fears that keeping a wormery inside the house causes smells. Here's his ...
fashion
Step away from that fitting room!
Guest writer, Gabrielle Utton, has set set herself a big personal challenge: no new clothes for one year. Here she tells us why... No new clothes for a year? What’s your reaction to that sentence? Is it: no problem, just think ...
fashion
Keeping warm the old fashioned way
This winter has been a humdinger. Some say it's the coldest winter for 100 years and comparisons have been drawn with the big freeze of 1947. But how did they cope back then without the wonders of modern inventions? Read our top tips ...
Interiors
Everything you want to know about making cushions
The most searched for items on our site relate to making cushion covers, so we thought we'd pull it all together for you here in a simple summary so you can find the right page, whatever your cushion-making needs. Making designer ...
Stories
Reasons to be cheerful – part two!
Last April, I wrote a piece on the blog about 10 reasons to be cheerful when you're broke. Sitting here towards the end of January, it seems like a good time to revisit that theme. The turn of the year is always punishing on the wallet ...
Food
Cooking pizza in the fireplace
Thanks to Sally for this great article - and can anybody help her with her broken oven? It seems there’s no end to all the culinary gadgetry available to us today. Do we really need all this stuff? Our ancestors got by without it. ...
Food - View more Food products
In praise of packed lunch
We Make it and Menders love packed lunches! Why do we love them? They're thrifty - a great way to use up leftovers and prepare lovely food at the fraction of the cost of shop bought sandwiches and drinks. They're creative - thinking ...
Stories
Janet Street-Porter shows us her way – win the book!
Janet-Street Porter shares her tips for sustainable living with her modern take on thrift, well being, modern manners and self-sufficiency
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