My Latest: Cardboard, and also Spring

a round-up of DIY bird feeders

another of organization projects that you can do using upcycled cardboard

a walk-through of the Pysanky eggs that we made

an essay on the environmental nightmare that is the Keurig K-Cup (with a great monster video!)

and a tutorial for making upcycled Girl Scout cookie box notebooks

I'm going to surprise all the kids with these at our next meeting, so I'm pretty excited.

Coming up for next week, I've been working on decoupaging a lunch box and putting cardboard dividers into another box to use as candle storage--you can expect tutes for both of those projects on CAGW. I figured out an awesome way to embellish plain pencils with tissue paper, so when I finish that, I'll write the tute up here on this blog. 

My biggest project, however, has been the hours that I've spent this week sawing up the GIANT shrubs planted just thisclose to our house--gee, I wonder why our foundation is crap? Today, I'm going to finish with the chainsaw (yay!), then dig a trench two feet from the house for a border, then spread landscape cloth and river rocks across that two feet so that we can, you know, actually access the side of our house for maintenance and repair.

Later this spring, however, part of the remaining space between that border and the driveway will be the new home to the dwarf fruit cocktail tree that I'm almost positive that it was foolish of us to order (if it sounds too good to be true...) and to Will's long-planned, long-awaited butterfly garden. 

Because grass? That's just the stuff that holds your place until you figure out what you ACTUALLY want to grow in that spot!