Welcome to This Recycled Life

Hello, hope you’ll have a look around. We’re so excited to have so many new visitors, please let us know what you think .

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Green Google

CNN covered a news item on Google’s efforts to try to offset the environmental impact of their business. I like google anyway – I love the minimalist approach to a search engine – give me your terms and let me rock… I love to see a good company doing something about their impact and [...]

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New Projects

So, I went out Thrifting today and I found a few t-shirts to work with, a few wool sweaters and a great dress. I was really surprised by the cost of a t-shirt here in the DC area, I pay only half the price when I am home in Colorado and trying to make [...]

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Thanks!

Had a great day today, finished up a few more projects for my Etsy shop Beautiful Garbage and I found out another blogger highlighted my stuff as well. I love to post the pics so enjoy the following.

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Water Bottles, Recycling Ideas, Green Life for Baby

I downloaded Levitt and Dublin’s Freakanomics book a few months ago and was really struck by the book’s commentary on water bottles. Water bottles – a demand created to buy something that most people in the States can get for free and most shocking – the amount of space in our dumps being taken [...]

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Recycling Life – Do-it-yourself

As you may have read from my other postings I am easing into a Recycling Life.  I spend the majority of my free funds on craft items and project stuff… well with 2 babies and only one working adult it got to be not a whole lot.  So now I try to look at old [...]

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Junk Mail – Recycling craft ideas

If you’re like me you get a dozen different catalogs and pieces of junk mail each week. These catalogs come from all kinds of sources and are so difficult to stop. I could go on at length about how disappointing the practice is but I’m guessing you know, and there are other bloggers [...]

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Buy Handmade for the Holidays

Today’s news report included coverage of the people who were waiting outside as department stores opened at 4am this morning. Some folks had stayed over night to be the first people in line on what is ‘the biggest shopping day of the year’. Whoa… as much as I think that a new flat [...]

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Recycle, Reclaim, Re-use, What’s in a Name?

I was visiting a few of my favorite blogs and I noticed that there seems to be some question what to call what I do. I’ve also looked back through my own postings and I haven’t been all that consistent. So I went to visit Wikipedia and found the following:
Recycling is the reprocessing [...]

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Gingersnaps and Hand Made Christmas Ornaments

I’ve been working with a lot of felted wool lately. I keep a couple of boxes of old clothing especially for recycling projects and when I can get a great wool sweater at the thrift store for 99 cents I pick them up. After finishing off [...]

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