Green Tips & Tricks

If you do this I would love to see the results

Adina Levin, co-founder of Collab, an ambitious new project aimed at re-localizing the economy by enabling artists, artisans and inventors to collaborate in the same space with a variety of efficient green machine tools. It's based in Manhattan. In her spare time, Adina is a crafter extraordinaire, and The Daily Green recently asked her to show us how to make beautiful handmade paper -- a great gift -- from the trash in your paper recycling bin.

The instructions are straightforward, the video shows you how... Just add your own trash and some creativity, and you're homemade papermaking days have begun.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/how-to-make-paper-47102101?src=nl&mag=tdg&list=dgr#ixzz0Ub39JnQQ

Do share when you do. I plan to try it, but I have a couple other projects on my plate right now.

I am attempting to make a longies diaper cover from a recycled wool sweater. This is a first attempt and I am a novice seamstress. lol The directions I have assume you are using a large mans wool sweater and all I had was a ladies small, so I am having to improvise a bit. :) So it may be ugly even if it is functional.