by Fünchkins
The Sauna Box is a self sufficient sauna in a shipping container that houses a traditional wood burning sauna. It has solar power for an iPod stereo dock, electric guitar hook-up as well as the Castor stool, magnetic truck light and bronze antlers.
The Sauna Box can be purchased from Matter for just $41, 000.00
The headmistress at a Georgian kindergarten has probably achieved hero status in the eyes of her students by recycling an old but functional Yakovlev Yak-42 from Georgian Airways into classrooms.
Ocean plastic isn’t a problem that is spoken about too often even in the current climate of environmental preservation. Although it now seems to be a bigger problem than originally thought, ocean plastic affects every one, not only those living in direct contact with the ocean but also those indirectly connected to it too…..basically we eat food harvested from the ocean!
A lovely way to keep your kids’ imaginations going wild is to make these really simple cardboard houses from discarded boxes.
They are bright enough to keep the kids interested while being plain enough so that they can imagine their own details and change them at will.
*The tutorial from Loft in Soho details exactly how you can make these cardboard houses yourself, which I found via Handmade Charlotte
When your husband loves something as much as Ashley‘s husband loves playing the guitar, it would make sense that he would want to share it with his children. Steve a.k.a Mister Make It and Love It, made these brilliant cardboard guitars for his two elder kids to strum on while he got out his own guitar. With rubber bands stretched across the body and neck, these guitars make enough sound to get your kids rocking and rolling all night long.
Ashley and Steve have been generous enough to supply the templates for the guitars along with full instructions on how to make your own cardboard guitars on the Make It and Live It site
This wine bottle hack comes from Lesley at Lettuce Share. She took a useless empty wine bottle and turned it into an Irish Sprinkler System for her plumbago. It’s a great way to use up old wine bottles that you might have lying around. Recycling and greening the Earth, brilliant.
Get the complete hack from Lettuce Share
It makes sense to make seedling pots from newspapers, because that keeps the paper out of landfills and helps clean up the environment a little. Plus, when your seedlings are ready to go into the ground or final pot, you don’t need to take them out of the newspaper.
Find out how to make newspaper seedling pots on the Cottage Hill blog
Belgian artist, Wim Delvoye creates works of art from found objects, like car tyre’s. He calls his approach to his own art, “Glocal”, referring to both local and global actions. [Read more...]
At Domingos Totora, cardboard gets to go full circle from unwanted cardboard waste to a wood finish that would qualify as organic sculptural furniture. [Read more...]
Wine is usually the best hostess gift when going to a stranger’s house. It sends the message that you drink wine, and know about wine, and expect your hosts to drink and be familiar with wine as well. That’s why you are friends with them, of course. But to make your gift of wine truly unique, how about giving them something that lets them play with the corks after the last drop of wine is drunk.
Corkers are little plastic shapes that allow you to transform wine corks from ordinary bits of rubbish, into animals and doing your little bit to recycle corks into something useful. [Read more...]
