Archive for the 'Craft' Category
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Earth Day is only 2 days away! What are your plans for the big occasion? How are you celebrating the day of our planet?
Green
Whether you are looking for a festival, conference, or educational tour check the Earth Day network. And if you are organizing an event you can register it with the network. To get [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
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 [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Veg*n
Veggie Global - an online veggie resource has a detailed table about the nature of food additives.
It can be difficult to determine if some types of additives are derived from animals or not. This is because it all depends on how the additive has been manufactured in the first place. In Europe and Australia food [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
If you like environment and celebrity gossip, Eccorazzi is the website for you. Founded in 2006, Eccorazzi:
covers environmental, humanitarian, animal rights, and vegetarian issues as they relate to those in the spotlight. In the spirit of fair play, Ecorazzi is quick to point how who’s slacking and who’s deserving of recognition.
After decorating with [...]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
It is Friday and before going on a well-deserved Easter break (only until Monday) PassiFlora blog is leaving you an interesting video to watch.
As I was flipping the channels last weekend I stumbled across CTV’s W-Five - an investigative news program. Unlike the usual investigation, this time W-Five was dedicated to tell the story [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
At PassiFlora we are looking for YOUR creative Easter ideas. Send us a picture of your eco-friendly Easter craft and we will feature it in our blog (along with the link to your website). PassiFlora email is: passifloramag@gmail.com
Feel free to re-post or re-twitter this information. Better yet, call your crafty friends and let them [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Dana, featured in the post a couple of days ago, kept her promise and wrote down (and photographed) a step-by-step tutorial on turning a men’s dress shirt into a girl’s dress.
Image: Dana
The tutorial is extremely detailed and is easy to follow even if you are just a novice seamstress. Dana also posted several pictures of [...]
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
It’s Wednesday and time for PassiFlora’s 2-for-1 Wednesday post. It was hard to pick only two great pages this time so we are treating you with several resources, all of them are not only useful but quite entertaining.
Do you like online slideshows? What about green online slideshows? Like the one about recycling bins from all [...]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Last week we featured egg making project from Retro Mama. Today we have another Easter egg project that is not only fun but 100% vegan.
V and Co., whom you might remember from the last week’s garland tutorial, put up step-by-step instructions on how to make these beautiful fabric covered eggs. All you need are old [...]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Today is Friday and since PassiFlora blog will not be back until Monday I put together a collection of different craft projects to keep you busy over the weekend.
Inspired by Sublime Stitching upcycling contest I looked around for some interesting upcycling ideas and found this:
Image: Dana
-It’s a dress!
-It’s a shirt!
-It’s a man dress shirt turned [...]
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