Category Archives: Creative pursuits

Touching on anything from DYI design and construction to fun hobbyist pursuits.

The Living Building Challenge is kicking my butt!!!

Posted on May 21, 2011 by annamadeit

Imagine that you are cooking dinner, but you are restricted to only using ingredients sourced from within a geographical radius of 500 kilometers. That’s a tad over 310 US miles. This would mean that if you use salt, you would … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative pursuits, Environment, Green Living, Health and Safety, On Building, On Design | Tagged Beauty, efficiency, Energy, Equity, habitat, health, Living Building Challenge, Materials, non-toxic, plumbing, red list, sharing, site, Water | 4 Comments

Wreath Therapy

Posted on February 17, 2011 by annamadeit

A long time ago, when a dear family friend died, I poured my soul into my first wreath. Our friend, who had been a farmer and a forester, had spent much of his life in the deep forests of northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative pursuits | Tagged Art, Crafts, creativity, Design, wreaths | Leave a comment

Make your gray water cleaner!

Posted on February 8, 2011 by annamadeit

Came across this great tip from the editors at MAKE magazine – an all-acrylic little doily you can easily make yourself, that will make your dishes, bathtubs, and cars clean without the use of synthetic soaps. The super-fine filaments making … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative pursuits, Environment, Green Living, Health and Safety | Tagged cleaning, environment, gray water, non-toxic, soap, water quality | 2 Comments

HGTV is not Reality TV!

Posted on February 5, 2011 by annamadeit

With the arrival of computers and programs like Illustrator and Photoshop, the world experienced a flood wave of newly hatched “graphic designers”. Sure, they might be prodigious navigators of the above mentioned programs, but were they really putting out good … Continue reading →