A pair of socks goes into our washing machine and only one of the pair emerges. A single mate. No other socks match up and it goes into a pile with the other lost cotton socks, unsure what to do with any of them. Does this ever happen to you? I have come up with a fun solution to recycle your socks by turning them into soap holders.…

Living plastic free has evoked changes in my life. Along the way I have been called to question all that I was familiar with. While blogs have provided a great resource for finding answers, sometimes I have needed to dive a little deeper to understand. Normally my literature choices hover around historical fiction or memoirs on rock…

365 days have come and gone since I stepped up and announced that I would try to eliminate plastic from my life by taking on the Plastic Free July 2013 challenge. Once the 31 days were complete I was inspired to continue and adopt a plastic free life full time. Now I am more committed than ever. My life is not only about living wi…

I am going to share something I allegedly said before plastic free living, before zero waste, before grabbing a sustainable lifestyle with both hands. A friend reminded me of something I said over the Christmas break of 2008… “I love being on holidays because you don’t have to recycle.” Ha! Did I really say that six years ago? …

My mother is a talented lady. Like the rest of my family and friends she is supportive of my plastic free life. So when I told her that it would be handy to have cloth bags to collect vegetables or grains in when I shop she put together two plastic free cloth shopping bags up-cycled from my dads old work shirts (thanks Dad!). I don…

In eleven days,  Plastic Free July 2014 will begin. If you are new to the challenge, or are curious about what you can do to shed a little plastic from your life, I have put together  five easy ways to quit plastic . Let me know, if you are going to do the challenge in the comments below.