A Romantic, Organic Cocktail for Valentine’s Day
This delightful cocktail combines sweet, sparkling apple cider with romantic lavender for a perfect Valentine's Day drink!
This delightful cocktail combines sweet, sparkling apple cider with romantic lavender for a perfect Valentine's Day drink!
The gifts are unwrapped, the out of town guests have made their way home, and you’re probably staring at a mountain of gift wrap and cards feeling a bit of the old green guilt. Don’t you fret! With just a little crafty love, you can keep the spoils of Christmas day out of the bin!
If you've taken the "Buy Handmade" challenge this year why stop there? Inspired by Doug's post last year about turning a cereal box into an eco-friendly gift box, I endeavored to make a pillow box this year.
When it comes to festive drinks, it doesn’t get much more holiday than a hot mug of spiked eggnog! You can make your holiday libations cruelty free and a little more eco-friendly with our version of this classic cocktail!
cosa verde, the online showcase for eco-friendly goods handmade by independent artists, is hosting a different kind of giveaway this holiday, and inviting you to Give it Forward this holiday, and enter to win a gift to surprise a friend or loved one.
I thought it would be fun to take Craft Recycled in a new direction this week with a holiday-themed tutorial! It’s about time for tree-trimming parties, and ornaments make lovely hostess gifts. You could even get crazy and make a whole flock of wise little owls for your own tree! Ready to get crafting? [...]
In the past when I visited people during the holidays and saw that they were using artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones, I thought they were just being lazy. The only reason they didn’t want a real one I figured was because they either didn’t have space for a real tree, didn’t want to [...]
Whether you are cooking a turkey, adopting a turkey, or skipping the turkey, here are a few tips for a greener Thanksgiving. Can you believe that Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away? For a lot of folks, that means eating turkey until they pop. Americans eat over 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving and most [...]
Halloween is almost here! If you’re like me, you’re planning some sort of zombie-themed costume and thinking about decorations! Here are some ecofriendly DIY ideas to get your house ready for the spookiest of holidays!
Some of you may have noticed that the volume of posts on gUP have been a little light lately and it’s because we’ve been working on a couple projects that we are almost ready to unveil. That being said we have been working hard over here and are planning on celebrating Independence Day with a [...]