If you don’t live in Austin, encourage your local library branch or system to create something similar! Not only can you socialize if you want, but you can get a new-to-you puzzle and rehome puzzles you no longer use! Win-win! A lot of people have puzzles laying around. They either intended to do them and…
Austin Wildlife Rescue put out a call for containers on their social media. I knew my best friend, the professional organizer, had some so I shared. This type of call is where it comes in handy to be talking to people and know what they need, who has what where, and how to connect them.…
Kirby Hall School had a great time at Austin Creative Reuse this morning for a field trip. The kids learned about the store and it’s diversion goal, volunteered to sort pencils by temperature: warm, cool and neutral, did a scavenger hunt, and got to tour the space as well as shop! Many parent drivers were…
I swap out books on my vintage brass napkin holders as the season or holiday comes up. I don’t have snow or winter nature books so we’re going from Kwanzaa to New Year’s/January type things. So we switched out Kwanzaa books: Together for Kwanzaa and The Seven Days of Kwanzaa to January books: Change Sings…
I share my unboxing video of my December Asante Club membership from Trades of Hope here. This box helps a mother in extreme poverty and provides a meal for a child. I’m big on awareness bracelets as you guys may have picked up. I also love to support women and moms as a woman and…
The original lights on this estimated 8-year-old tree half went out; the first two tiers died. So we cut all the lights off with wire cutters to restring it with new string lights. The strings were intricately woven into the branches and there were little plastic clips also holding them on. This just made an…
Just ask around. My son’s old play masks are going to his drama teacher and these neck ties from a declutter client are going to the Art and Drama departments to share. We finally received the two secondhand sewing machines Art had been asking for so they can sew or weave the ties. I don’t…
School trinkets, party favors, and odds and ends are great to add to your trick-or-treat bucket! Don’t forget to add stickers, pencils, bracelets, pretzels, and other non-sweet treats. You may also like: How to Handle Halloween Candy Working Toward A Zero Waste Halloween Tiny Toys and Trinkets #Halloween#treats#reuse#rethink#trickortreat
New glasses today! I’ve been having trouble with oxidation and buildup on my old copper-colored glasses, so I talked through all of my concerns with Envision Eye Center and these new titanium glasses are supposed to take care of everything: oxidation, slipping down my nose, and the nosepieces causing indentations on my nose. I’m keeping…
Julian at Plastno reached out to ask me to review his products. I’ve been asked to do this by other companies, but Julian was the first one to have a good answer and it was on his website, “Save thousands of bags from clogging up oceans and landfills.” As anyone who has seen pictures of…