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Here’s a cheery eco-alternative to using those nasty plastic bags when you shop for groceries! It’s a sturdy folding box made of woven polyethylene fabric, fully lined, with built-in aluminum carrying handles.
The Shop Box comes in two sizes, made to fit into supermarket trolley. Fold it flat to take to market, then open [...]
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Cheerful and practical, this 6-bin storage unit is perfect for organizing toys, books, and all the other small bits and pieces that have a way of spreading across a child’s bedroom.
The pull-put bins are made of heavy-duty fabric in crayon-bright colors — lilac, yellow, red, fern green, orange and light blue — [...]
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So you’ve inherited Grandma’s wedding dress or bridal quilt? Lovely! But do be aware that textile heirlooms and keepsakes need special care if they are to survive for future generations.
Take the advice of Shirley Niemeyer, Extension Housing & Environment Specialist at the University of Nebraska, and Patricia Cox Crews of the International Quilt Study Center, [...]
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Seeking an alternative to the chaotic shelf stuffed full of cardboard boxes, my current method of storing shoes (why do I own so many pairs, anyway?), I came across a truly unique solution.
Winner of the GOOD DESIGN 2006 Award in the Personal Products category… the shoe storage wheel by Danilo Torro of Rakku Designs [...]
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Empty plastic pails are very likely to be “free for the picking-up” from your local bakery. We arrange to get some of these whenever we need a large food-safe plastic bucket. The ones we get are 30-lb buckets with tight-fitting lids. They happen to be from molasses but they also get shortening and corn syrup [...]
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