By Jamie Ervin •
August 11, 2009
Milk jugs will NEVER degrade if they end up in a landfill. So its important to recycle every jug that enters your house, sometimes we try to get crafty with them first or find a totally new way to repurpose jugs.
Some areas (*gasp*) don’t provide curbside recycling for plastics. Please check Earth911 for places to recycle items your area doesn’t pick up curbside. We are blessed and have mixed curbside recycling for nearly all our everyday items. Please recycle your plastic jugs after use, industrious areas like New Jersey have used milk jugs to make a bridge. Who knows what other uses will come of plastic recycling.
Here are some crafty ways we can reuse plastic milk jugs and divert them from the landfill.
By Jamie Ervin •
January 21, 2009
I’ve mentioned before that we aren’t big into Valentine’s Day around this house. That said, we aren’t fun killers either and our children do fully participate in the Valentine fun at school. (I’m the Mom signed up to bring a fruit tray to the party… any ideas on making a super fun fruit presentation, please share!)
Recently I visited with Oregon’s own Kate Rosenthal, owner of Stubby Pencil Studios. She started Stubby Pencil out with these amazingly adorable, DIY, Color N Kids Cards. (Shown here with a set of Soy Crayons, 8 count for $1.00.) The Valentine version of the cards come in a set of 12 for $7.95. I adore that these cards come in a variety of images and sayings so there is something appropriate for everyone in class, a “love ya” for the BFF and a “cool dude” or “smile” for less close classmates. I’m a firm believer in taking a Valentine for each child in the class (it’s part of our “love for all” family promotion).
Milk jugs will NEVER degrade if they end up in a landfill. So its important to recycle every jug that enters your house, sometimes we try to get crafty with them first or find a totally new way to repurpose jugs.
