Craft

What happens when you put old sheets and grocery totes together?  Erika Kern has the answer:

Image: Erika Kern

These are sturdy, reversible, Star Wars themed shopping totes made out of old sheets.  And here is a step-by-step tutorial from Erika at CraftStylish.  Unfortunately she was not able to tell us where to get those cool sheets.

Veg*n

Looking for a yummy dessert to make over the weekend?  How about these gorgeous vegan fat free mini donuts?

Image: Susan

They come from Fat Free Vegan blog ran by Susan, who

over past few years maintained the Fatfree Vegan Recipes website, a collection of over 1400 (and growing) low-fat vegan recipes sent in by hundreds of people.

The donuts recipe is in one of Susan’s latest posts but feel free to browse through the recipe index and look for more yummy fat free vegan dishes.

Fun

Inhabitat

a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future

held Spring Green Desing compteition.  Although it is late to vote for the designers, you can still look at the ingenious ideas of upcycling.  My personal favorites are dog rain coats made out of recycled umbrella fabric by Taryn Zichal.

Image: Taryn Zichal

Have a green weekend!

Linen totes tutorial:
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/39876/how-to-turn-old-sheets-into-shopping-totes

Fat free vegan donuts recipe:
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/04/fat-free-mini-donuts.html

Spring Green Design competition (Inhabitat):
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/06/vote-now-in-the-spring-greening-design-competition/

CraftStylish: http://www.craftstylish.com/

Fat free vegan blog: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/

Inhabitat: http://www.inhabitat.com/
Taryn Zichal website: http://www.tarynzychal.com/index.html

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