Something is finally changing: more and more companies around the world are becoming aware of the environmental problems and many of these have already lined up on the side of those who want to do something to save our beautiful planet. Etsy is one of them! I am particularly fond of this platform because I am part of it, with my eco-friendly creations. What is Etsy? Etsy is the global marketplace for handmade, unique and original items, and vintage treasures. It’s home to a world of creatives, the place where the slow and meticulous work of craftsmen has a great value and where all those objects of the past may have a new…
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DIY: how to make zero waste decorations for Christmas!
Last year for the first time I decorated my own Christmas tree and I loved playing with creativity, making beautiful handmade decorations. Since they had great success among the people who have seen them, today I share my tutorial with you, and I recommend to do this activity with children in the coming days of vacation, to train manual skills and have fun together. Here is the good news: you don’t need to buy anything! In fact, we will only use recycled materials, broken or surplus items that everyone has at home. What do we need? The necessary materials are: cardboard tubes from the inside of the finished rolls of…
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DIY: how to create handmade recycled paper
Paper is such a common material in our daily life that we do not pay any attention to it, even though we use it continuously during the day. On average, 300 million tons of paper are used worldwide each year. Throughout history, it has been the instrument that allowed men to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity: the most famous literary works were written on paper, as well as artists’ drawings and scientists’ calculations that led to great discoveries. Until a few decades ago, it was the only medium we used to store our memory. In the past, for centuries, paper was made using mainly rags of linen, hemp and…
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Good reasons to buy handmade
Perhaps we do not realize it, but as consumers we have the great power to move the market and the economy according to our selection criteria. The choice of particular brands, designs and materials pushes producers to adapt to the requests. Every purchase has a value, it is like a vote in favor of a certain type of goods. In contrast to the logic of industrial mass production of disposable items that seems to reign over our society, there is the world of the handmade, that is carrying out a profound ecological transformation. In fact more and more artisans and creative people follow a philosophy that tends to minimize the…
