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Hello Sew Greeners! I'm sure you're all in the midst of your busy holiday preparations. I know I am. We all know this season can be ...

Here in the U.S., over-commercialized gift-giving season is in full swing! I thought I would share some unique gifts for the bicyclist in y...

I posted in June on reducing and in September on reusing . Now it's time for a post on recycling. I always think that reusing and recyc...

Happy Hanukkah to those that celebrate! And happy December to those that don't! I create a little craft tutorial on my blog for a Jewis...

I'd like to begin by saying Happy Thanksgiving to you guys across the pond! But I have a couple of confessions. The first is, I nearly f...

Clothes and fashion are topics that pop up regularly on Sew Green, and with good reason. We all dress ourselves on a daily basis (and many o...

My daughters and I packed up the car early this morning and took the 45 minute drive to our farm.  I like to call it "our farm".  ...

On my drizzly bike ride to work this morning, this sage wisdom occurred to me: If you want to feel like you can conquer anything, take a bi...

chicken-watching: a very natural stress-reliever The last few weeks have been kind of stressful. Job craziness, car troubles, all sorts of u...

My clothes are disintegrating. Most are over ten years old. Moths have taken advantage of some of them as the clothes have hung on the line ...

Way back in June, I posted about the first R - reducing. A week later, our garage was broken into and my very nice Norco Vermont was stolen....

I've had a bad morning. My USB memory stick is broken. And I don't just mean "error message" broken, I mean the circuit bo...

my girls and i are blessed with the opportunity to spend our summers up at our family cottage. my husband comes for as long as work allows -...

  In my architectural day job I work on large projects, mostly University buildings. It might seem like a far cry from designing homes, but...

I have been reading about handmade deodorant for a few years now, but was always a bit skeptical. Each recipe seemed to involve melting s...

once my daughter was born, i knew better than to swear that i wasn't going to have ANY plastic toys in my house. but i did really want t...