Vegetables and flowers
Green
Warm weather brings an abundance of beautiful fruits and vegetables to the local markets and stores. Treehugger team created a slideshow to remind you about vegetables with the most pesticides.
Image: Robin MacDougall (via Treehugger)
The slideshow has beautiful images, and tons of useful information, including scientific data and links to the recipes.
Craft
Warm weather also brings flowers. No wonder flower theme is so popular for spring decoration and with the upcoming Mother’s Day these projects can be used as little tokens or gifts.
FamilyCorner has several tutorials for making flowers out of …. coffee filters.
Image: FamilyCorner
Projects (daffodils or a flower bouquet) are easy enough for little kids and will make a good excuse to use up all those oddly-sized filters.
Another kids-friendly tutorial comes from Jessica Okui, a talented lady behind Zakka life blog.
Image: Jessica Okui
These decorative flowers take no time to make and use up old catalogs and magazines.
The fairly light garland could be used to decorate a patio, a balcony, or even a dinning room.
Image: Jennyb
Bring out your eco-friendly Christmas lights, multicolored scraps of paper, scissors, and follow the simple tutorial at Apartment therapy.
And if you have any spring-themed tutorials, recipes, or ideas, email us (passifloramag@gmail.com). We’ll make sure to feature your projects in our blog.
Links
12 vegetables with most pesticides:
http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/04/12-vegetables-with-the-most-pesticides.php?page=1
Coffee filter flowers tutorial:
http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/crafts/coffee_filter_flower.shtml
Daffodil tutorial:
http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/crafts/coffee-filter-flower-daffodil.shtml
Big decorative flowers tutorial:
http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2008/11/flower-garland-tutorial.html
Fairy lights garland tutorial:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/at-australia/how-to-make-flower-fairy-lights-melbourne-067715
Treehugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/
FamilyCorner:
http://www.familycorner.com/
Zakka life blog:
http://www.zakkalife.blogspot.com/
Apartment therapy:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/
