Recycling T-shirts, Happy Birthday to Me

This is me in my birthday suit… ha! did you really think this was that kind of blog?… yeah, it just isn’t. My birthday suit featured a new hat, courtesy of a recycled pink t-shirt. I cut the shirt down to 2″ wide ribbons and then ran a stitch up the tiers [...]

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Sweaters Everywhere!

Ok, if you haven’t visited yet, please go check out Etsy this morning. Etsy is a marketplace for handmade crafts, so it’s much better than the other E-named marketplace. Many cool people, many cool things. Besides the listing fees are a bargain compared to that other E-named site. I am so [...]

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Recycling Shirts and Jeans

When I’m working on something new I sit at my sewing machine snickering to myself, which causes my little family no small amount of concern.  I snicker because many of the little projects I try out are a pretty funny joke to me.   When I first started this blog I began with a couple of [...]

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So Sweet!

look what I got in the mail today!.. a new favorite.  Thanks so much Cathy, I love it, thanks for the scraps as well.  Please check out her blog here: knittingcaboodle

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New Baby Onesies – Recycling Clothing

I love the beautiful blue flower on the pin point dots!!!  Still working my way through my recycling bag of baby clothes, I can’t seem to get enough.

Tips for your own Baby Recycling Project

Clean the clothing one more time, and be sure to prewash all fabric – this will make sure that the first time [...]

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Finishing up a new doll

Here is Provincial Georgie, I had a lot of fun with the hair.

I’m still giggling over the wonderful chicken print fabric as well – I liked it so much on her legs that I used it in the dress as well.

I even came across a ladies lace collar to use as a shawl, I have [...]

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Recycling for Baby- Easy Craft for Saving Onesies

My second daughter is growing up too fast for my taste and she is already starting to move into her older sister’s 12 month clothing. As she moved out of the little baby clothes we sent her most of the ’still good’ clothing to friends or donated it. She had way too much [...]

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Speak Up – Sweet Persistance

I learned a valuable lesson today – it doesn’t hurt to ask.  I’ve been looking for a new source of upholstery fabric as my old stash is running low – it’s good though it means  I’ve had some sales lately.  A few weeks ago I made some calls around town begging for a few more [...]

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New recycled bracelet, all gold

My sweet little daughter has a lot of favorites.  This jacket is her favorite, this other jacket is her favorite and yesterday it was another jacket.  My immediate thought was to explain that to have a favorite is to prefer one thing over many others.  However, as she is still new to the whole speaking [...]

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welcome to thisrecycledlife

I’ve been listing new things on Etsy and since I like putting lots of pictures in my posts I thought for today I’d do a post with very little content and a whole lot of pictures. Enjoy – oh and if you like jewelry made from recycled materials – come shop at Beautiful [...]

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