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These days many people are choosing to live green, or at least a bit closer to green. There are so many changes we can make in our daily lives that will have a positive impact on Mother Earth. We can reduce our consumption of resources, recycle items on a regular basis and we can reuse items we already have, for starters. For all of us crafters, this new trend is a green light to horde even more 'junk' and find new ways to re-use, re-work and re-purpose more and more unusual items in our projects.
You can find patterns and instructions for all kinds of green crafting at the library, in bookstores and of course, on the Internet. Crafting a Green World is a great online resource. You will find enough projects and information on this site alone to get you well on your way.
An abundance of miscellaneous articles are simply sitting around collecting dust in closets, corners, attics and basements. Why not turn some of that rubbish into useful items to decorate with, give as gifts, create storage solutions from and so on?
And with Crafting a Green World rounding up the best green crafting projects, I challenge you to come up with an item that can't be crafted into a new life. Vinyl venetian blinds? Why, labels for your garden of course! Old suitcase? Turn it into trendy storage! And don't even get them started on the 101 things you could do with left over buttons !
One of my favorite ideas on their site is a project to turn envelopes into gift bags .
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