Eco-Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas

I am busy sorting out a few birthday gifts for the coming weeks, so I thought I would share with you a few of the eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas I have found on my internet searches. Organic Cotton Gift Wrapper Bags – available from Organic-Ally with prices starting from £2.80 for the CD size gift [...]

Aluminium Picture Frame

Today is the last day of our recycled gifts to celebrate Recycle Now’s pledge week.  I hope you have enjoyed reading my personal pledge posts and the range of wonderful gifts from recycled materials this week. Those close to me and regular readers will know I have a penchant for all things photos!  Whether it [...]

Flat Bottle Champagne Clocks

Day 4′s recycled gift to help celebrate Recycle Now’s pledge week.  This would make a fab recycled gift for the champagne lovers amongst you.  Made from a recycled bottle of champagne in the UK, by fab recycled gift ideas company, Jaxsons Gifts. You can choose the bottle from one of five champagne makes, it comes [...]

Recycled Cotton Photo Frame

Continuing on our recycled gifts for this week as we help promote Recycle Now´s recycle week.  Todays gift would make a lovely new home gift or thank you for dinner gift. Made in the rural outskirts of Dehli and imported under fair trade terms, these good looking frames are made from recycled cotton waste from [...]

Angelina Urth Bag

Each day this week I am highlighting a great recycling gift to celebrate Recycle Now’s recycle week. Todays gift I think would be perfect for a girly teenager. Made from recycled magazines, each bag features different magazine images, hence you get unique bags.  It is waterproof and has a zipper closure. Available from Cool Green [...]

Recycle Week: Great Gift Ideas

Last week saw me posting daily about my pledge for Recycle Week.  This week I thought I would highlight some great gift ideas made from recycled products. I have a set of theses Champagne Flutes and when I used them this weekend (am still feeling a bit groggy from all the entertaining this weekend!) they [...]

Recycle Now – Day five

WOW!  A whole week is nearly over again and we have been busy bees recycling all the clothes that I sorted out on Monday, now we have the last pile of clothes waiting in a bag for us to decide what we should do with them.  We  have had a couple of suggestions – thanks for [...]

Recycle Now – Day four

Day four of my recycle pledge to reuse or find a way to recycle our old/unwanted clothes for Recycle Now. So far we have managed to have a mega sort out, much to the disgust of some members of my family!  We then recycled the really old clothes that could not be given away into dusters [...]

Recycle Now – Day three

Those that know me, will know I am the hostess with the mostess!! I love to cook and entertain for our friends and family in our home.  I can also clean as well as the best can, iron not so bad, but other womanly chores like sewing, knitting etc are not really my forte.  So [...]

Recycle Now – Day two

Well, I think I have just about survived the clear out!!  Hubby was annoyed I had thrown away a couple of his “favourite” sleeping shirts, just because they had holes in it!!  I mean this is the man who has nearly 18 tees for sleeping in!! I hastened to remind him you can only wear [...]

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