Most of the time, I’m too lazy to really get into making my own cosmetics. However, making an excellent, cheap lip balm is so easy that it’s worth the effort. You can find tons of recipes online and it’s always best to experiment a bit to find the one best suited for your needs. My [...]

Here’s an article from Boing Boing about a project offering a DIY kit to make your own fertilizer from urine. I don’t think I’m ready for that. Also, I found this very interesting blog post that presents a way of making your own pots from old newspapers. I will certainly get me one of these [...]

Proof that DIY includes so much more than Tim Taylor’s Home Improvement (though I used to love that):

Today’s song of the day is in German for a change. I stumbled upon the band Locas in Love and their song Wintersachen on Intro and was immediately hooked. While the music is far from being innovative or overly exciting for some other reason, the lyrics are so sweet and true that I can’t stop [...]

As announced here, I would like to share my adventures in container gardening with you. This will be the seventh gardening year for me, but I still feel like a freshman in many ways. In the last couple of years, I focused mainly on flowers for decorative purposes. This year, however, I will try vegetables [...]

The Fleet Foxes’ album has been my special winter album this year. It provides the perfect soundtrack to just staring out of the window at the snowy trees outside. Mykonos is somewhat different, because it really makes me miss summer. It’s a marvelous anachronism of a song.

I’ve been fascinated by all sorts of crafts and DIY stuff for a while now as the DIY movement itself has gained momentum in the last few years. Especially now, with the economy in crisis, I’m sure many more people will be drawn to the idea of trying to produce things themselves instead of buying [...]