Tired of the pages falling out of your wire-bound notebook? To fix it, you literally just need yarn. Or embroidery floss. Or twine.

Heck, even a shoelace would work!

Your spiral-bound notebooks are fine. The specific kind of notebook that I’m talking about here is the kind that uses what’s called twin loop wire binding. That’s the most common kind of DIY binding ...

Because the best graduation party is also the most eco-friendly!

A loved one’s graduation is such a joyful reason for a party! And the commercial world has really picked up on that, with endless options of stuff you can buy to have the graduation party of your dreams.

Except is it, though, if it involves buying a bunch of stuff that you won’t reuse and have to fi...

Because you don’t need a chicken–or a bunny!–to lay the cutest Easter eggs in your basket!

Was the original mythos that the Easter Bunny laid the eggs for Easter, or did chickens lay them and the Easter Bunny decorates them? Or only delivers them, along with the basket of treats? Our Easter Bunny didn’t handle eggs at all, just the basket of treats, BUT the treats only cam...

These hand-painted Easter eggs are just as fun as the plastic ones–but they’re beautiful enough to keep forever!

It can feel almost impossible to avoid plastic Easter eggs. They’re cheap, they’re pretty, you can put treats in them, and they are EVERYWHERE. I don’t have a blanket hate for plastic eggs–I was happy enough to thrift them!–but the world does not need more brand...

These treat-filled paper Easter eggs are a low-waste way to celebrate!

Of COURSE I still make my college kids Easter baskets! I mean, they may be away at school having grown-up adventures, but they still like candy and LEGOs!

However, while even plastic Easter eggs are okay for a kid’s Easter basket,