Tag: DIY
DIY: Make Your Own Beauty Supplies
Conventional beauty products often contain harmful additives to increase lather or give the product a creamy texture. Ingredients like Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate (SLS), for example, are in pretty much every skin- and hair-care product. SLS is a known mutagen and skin irritant and is even a suspected carcinogen! Even many natural products even contain some [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2009 under Craftivism, Mission: Possible!, Tutorials.
Tags: beauty supplies, DIY, hair removal, shampoo, sugar scrub, sugaring
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Spoonflower Organic??
[image from decor8]
Spoonflower is considering organic cotton! You can read all about it on Becky’s post to Crafting a Green World! There’s still time left to vote!
<3,
Becky
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: DIY
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politics of food
Today on the radio I happened to catch a snippet of someone talking about the Slow Food movement, in which they were criticizing the concept as elitist. I hear this an awful lot when people talk about organics, the 100-mile diet, ethically-produced animal products and the slow food movement, and I have to admit that [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Craftivism, Sustainability.
Tags: DIY, Hungry
Comments: 3
Decoupage Tutorial from How About Orange
How About Orange posted a great tutorial on how she upcycled pages from a Hymnal she found in the trash! She decoupaged them onto a glass vase, and the results were just lovely!
Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Craftivism, Tutorials.
Tags: DIY
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Mission: Possible Pictures!
Our friend Christie posted a really awesome writeup of the most recent Mission: Possible! It has lots of great pictures from the evening. Please just promise to scroll past the one in which I look like a man. You’ll know the one.
Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Craftivism, Mission: Possible!.
Tags: DIY
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Mission:Possible!
The rest of Supercute! and some of our fabulously crafty friends had a mission:possible craft night last night. The theme was homeade cleaning supplies. Shannon from Indie Craft Experience started things off right by showing up with a batch of mojitos, made with organic mint from her very own garden. You know crafting is always [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Mission: Possible!, Sustainability, Tutorials.
Tags: DIY, Recycling
Comments: 2
Fine Trashion
I couldn’t resist posting this super-rad dress made from used plastic grocery bags by Emily Berezin! She did such a fantastic job…I didn’t even realize what she made it from at first! It’s so inspiring!
[via Rachel Marie]
Posted: June 29th, 2008 under Craftivism.
Tags: DIY, Etsy, Trashion
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Woah
I am not sure I will be attempting this at home, but it’s sure interesting:
Make a solar cell in your kitchen.
~liz
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: DIY
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