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Ladies!  Our vaginas need to go forth on a really important mission.. in search of an eco friendly period product. Why? "Close to 20 billion sanitary napkins, tampons and applicators are dumped into North American landfills every year."  Before you say anything, the quote is a few years old. I know. However, think about that number. It's huge. And scary. It's never even crossed my mind until now ,  where my sanitary products end up. I guess I was naive and just assumed that they were recycled somehow. So it got me thinking, how much waste could I have personally contributed to this problem. I'll tell you, because I worked it out.  5100 items  ≈ And that's just me. Then  you think about all of the women in your life that might have a similar figure and it gets bigger and bigger.  For a long time, I have toyed with the idea of using a menstrual cup. It's been discussed and then ignored and then brought up again and the...

So my living room curtains were a bit grim. They were free (nothing wrong with that) taken from a house that my brother moved in to. Originally, they were a cream colour. Unfortunately, I live in a little flat that is susceptible to damp and mould (yeah, grim). So, no matter what we do, our stuff just gets ruined. Hence, why I won't spend money on new curtains! The solution I came up with was to dye them! And personally I think it was a pretty good shout. I picked up some fabric dye from Aldi. They had black, red or blue. I went for black because I wanted the mould stains to be fully covered.  I searched a few YouTube how to's and away we went...easy peasy! Any fabric dye would be fine. I picked mine up in Aldi but I know that Wilkos, Hobbycraft and other supermarkets sell dyes. This was a bucket based dye, some can be done in the machine. Although I don't know how effective that is on tie dye patterns. I chose to do a traditional Japanese style Shibori pattern (goog...

Some 2019 fun! I'll aim to post a new challenge for each month! Don't forget to tag me and use the hashtag #stcyphotochallenge so that I can go like your creativity! You can follow me on Instagram using the buttons at the side or searching @stcy  January

Image Credit:  allfreesewing.com About six months ago I decided to start making some changes to the way I think about shopping. I started to do some research and was surprised at how naive I had been to the ways my shopping habits harm the world that we live in. I've always been somewhat conscious of certain things that are bad for the planet, with the likes of straws and other plastic disposables being called out I decided to look at other things I used that could be swapped or cut altogether. I have made a list of 10 simple swaps below. All tried and tested and I'm 100% behind them. 1.  Cotton pads/balls --->   Handmade reusable make up pads I've been using these for months now and alongside a microfibre facecloth, they work perfectly. I stopped using cotton makeup pads altogether. 2.  Plastic water bottles ---> Glass water bottle I chose glass because it seems to keep my water cooler. There are so many options available. 3.  Cling film ---...

Happy Sunday! Today, I wanted to share my experience of my first ever zero waste shop. Firstly, I'm going to retract from calling it completely zero waste because although I saved a few items from being bought in plastic wrapping, others I could not avoid and I wasn't sure of the alternative. I had to shop at three places: the pop-up, the butchers and the supermarket. Time wise, I know it took longer than the average supermarket shop and cost-wise, I spent more than my average supermarket shop. So, a while ago I saw an ad for a Freecycle event near where I live and noticed that there was a zero waste pop-up. I've seen a lot about shopping zero waste and decided I'd like to try it out. I can't say I planned too much because I knew a limited amount about what was being sold. I gathered a few containers on the morning of the event and went to the local church hall to see what it was all about.. First impressions...it was a LOT smaller than I expected and (a goo...