Plastic chains...

...instead of paper chains!

Because we have too many strawberry milk bottles these days and I hate just tossing them. So with a little help of neon washi tape, we're making a plastic chain.

 A little Christmas washi tape and it's even seasonal.

quick Thursday morning sewing

Since we will have to go back home pretty soon here, I'm trying to salvage things of stuff I like (and can't really get in Europe).

Took about 30minutes to make and has left over lining and a rescued zipper, as well as the obvious Cheetos bag.


New home to my Sharpies. (Which can be a few more now, since their room is pretty spacey.)

Toilet Paper Roll Recycling

for Halloween. 

Tomorrow, the kids at our condo are gonna go trick or treating. A lot of kids have signed up, but not many people volunteered to hand sweets out. 

So we will. 

And because I didn't just want to hold out a cauldron filled with sweets (too many kids, limited sweets), I also found a nice way to recycle and get rid of our saved to rolls. 

Painted ghosts on them and filled them with a lollipop and two candies. 

Done. The kids can come (between 8 and 9pm, that is).

Ikea hack of sorts

Sorting through stuff, I came across this Ikea pillow case. From an old couch, I think, but who knows? 

Anyhoo, I was almost tossing it, when I realized I could just as well make it into a duffel bag instead. We'll need a lot of suitcases, etc very soon and why spend money if I can make it with scraps for free?

It took about 20mins to sew -because, yes. I'm eyeballing everything. ;)

But: I have a new duffel bag and don't have to feel bad about tossing fabric. 

Reusable wipes

Reusable wipes, a photo by dacarrot on Flickr.

I have replaced our stack of ugly, beaten up fabric wipes with these.
We never seem to have enough at our house.

I saw a roll of cotton wipes on etsy and loved the idea to store them like this!