Your Daily Breeze

Make Your Own Mittens

Image from One Pearl Button.

If you have a sweater that you've loved to frumpy-ness, try making it into warm, useful, no-cost mittens! Imagine the potential you have in your closet right now? Use this easy pattern to cut and sew a pair of custom falangee warmers.  Follow the pattern or get creative, you may even love it enough to make holiday gifts for your friends and family...at no cost to you or the environment!

I'm going to go do it right now, results in a few days...

Make your Own Bike Charger

Take 2-3 hours out of your life, and a little bit of investment to make a charger that you power! Suitable for your phone, laptop, and TV, this effective power supplier will save you tons in electric bills and whittle your waistline in the meantime.

An MIT Experiment: In preliminary calculations, the students predicted that a bicyclist should be able to produce up to 75 watts continuously--far more than the 30 watts needed to power the laptop." They now have a working model for a human-powered excersize machine/laptop.

Build Your Own:

Bicycle Generator

iPod Charger

Make A Butterfly and Hummingbird Attraction

There's a Hummingbird that sits on the top branch of a dead willow tree in our yard. The tiny bird loves to sit on the tippy top branch, so high up and thin it looks like there's a miniature UFO hovering above the tall tree. It's great to hear him or her zoom by my head and see them eat from the window boxes out front...

A good and short project that'll bring you much joy, is the creation of a Butterfly garden. It doesn't have to be much; just a few of their favorite plants and you'll witness some of natures most beautiful beings: Hummingbirds and Butterflies, who migrate many miles to get the best 'fruits' of each season.

They love nectar, but also need places to rest, hide, and find little bugs that comprise up to 50% of some Hummingbirds diets. Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies naturally is rewarding and simple. The feelings generated from watching a live garden grow, change, and provide a permanent home for the Birds and Bees is overwhelmingly amazing.

Potted Garden

If you have seemingly no space for a garden, you may still be able to make your own version. Small pots or window boxes, full of soil (organic, if possible) and petunias, impatients, trumpet vines and Honeysuckle can provide nesescary energy to the tiny animals. If you're in a city, it may take longer for them to come back, but convince your friends to do it too and the Hummingbirds, Butterflies, friendly Bees) will eventually find you!

Small Space Hummingbird Garden

Perennial Garden:

This project is much more involved, but will show you long-term benefits, and even increase the value of your house if done properly!.There's a bit of research involved to find plants that are native to your area (native plants are recommended both for the benefit of the hummingbirds and the environment), but it's worth it.  Fortunately, it's all so rewarding:)

How to Attract Hummingbirds
Hummingbird Plants and Habitats
Hummingbird Plants by Region
California Hummingbird Garden

Repel Wasps Naturally

Here's the easiest possible way to get rid of wasps, without endangering yourself or them. Since they are territorial by nature, they won't impose on another wasps territory. Simply put a fake wasp's nest near where they hang out! You can buy one here ($17.95 each) and here (12.95, more decorative, for a set of two).

Or you can even make your own out of a small paper bag and a grey or even yellow marker. 1. Stuff the bag with a sheet of newspaper. 2. Round the square edges. 3. Make markings similar to the image of this real wasp nest. 4. Tie it with a string. 5. Hang it near where you see the wasps most often.

Photo by: TheRagens.com

Other home remedies:
Natural Insect Pest Control

DIY Solar Stove

With this homemade stove, you can cook bread, beans, vegetables, and more all with the wonderful power of the sun.

Seek Alternative Energy!

Stop Junk Mail

I did this about a year and a half ago. It works! And better yet, it's free and easy!! Whaaa?

See all about it here, or just call:

Credit Bureaus Main Opt-Out Line
              
  888 567-8688

DIY Bags!

Handbags made from recycled plastic bags! Tons of different patterns, including bags, rugs, totes, and more. Cindy, of "MyRecycledBags.com" not only supplys a wide array of patterns and directions, but she also offers some of her own custom made bags for sale on her eco-conscious craft site.