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DIY: Mother’s Day Gifts [Video tutorials]
Hi! This is an update for DIY: Upcycled Mother’s Day Gifts ideas. Click on the link so you find ideas for crafts and tutorials [Images]. This year ecogreenlove created a YouTube playlist for more Mother’s Day gifts tutorials [16 videos]. Every year will be updated. If you have an idea or tutorial you want to share with us, please comment below or send us a message with your link.
More ideas:
• Go here for repurposed gift wrapping ideas
• Click here for 10 DIY natural scrub recipes that make a great gift for Mother’s Day
• And check here our upcycled & original gifts roundup (for every occasion)
According to consumerist.com:
Mother’s Day is [a nation’s] greatest guilt holiday: mothers brought us into the world, raised us, or even both, and we can at least buy them brunch and a handful of tulips, right? Of course! Stuff isn’t a proxy for love, but the National Retail Federation tells us that Americans plan to spend an average of $172.63 each on Mother’s Day festivities this year.
Mother’s Day isn’t about buying stuff for only our own personal mothers, of course, 6,285 people took this year’s phone survey, and they named some other people who they celebrate on that day. These included wives, sisters, grandmothers, daughters, friends, godmothers, and “other relatives,” which probably includes stepmothers and aunts. Shoppers said that they plan to spend about $8 on cards for the holiday, and 80% of them planned to buy at least one card.
67% of shoppers plan to buy flowers: while Valentine’s Day is the biggest holiday for giving flowers, Mother’s Day is the biggest holiday for having flowers delivered from afar.
Other odd bits from the survey? 44% of participants plan to give their mother figures gift cards for the holiday, and 14% plan to give them some kind of consumer electronics.
I think is always better if you make something by yourself to give as a gift. Is personalised, is unique, is made by your own hands, you put your time and effort on it… and the advantages is that your recipient (in this case, your mom) will love it for all of these reasons, besides that you spend almost no money, you don’t go with all of the flow and buy a card something that many other moms will get 😉
Remember, is more significant when you give something personalised you made by yourself, avoid consuming!
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DIY: Earth Day Projects & Activities
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 50,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
Earth Day could be the most exciting year in environmental history. The year in which economic growth and sustainability join hands. It’s our turn to lead. So our world leaders can follow by example.
Here are some ideas to throw an Earth Day party like gifts, party favours or simple activities to do with your kids explaining why we celebrate Earth Day. Go check our infographic with the best recipes for Drinks, Salads and Desserts for Earth Day!
DIY: Upcycled Easter Decorations & Gifts
Update: April 2022
Click the image to go to original source and/or tutorial, enjoy!
Facts about Fruit Drinks [Infographic]
Found on How Stuff Works and originally published on HealthScience.net
as Soda’s Evil Twin: The Dangers of “Fruit Drinks”
According to info gathered by HealthScience.net, fruit drinks are not only not “healthy” but they are in many cases actually worse for you than soft drinks and sodas. Higher in sugar and much higher in calories. And even though some (but not all) contain real fruit juice, they are probably responsible for more expanding waistlines than those donuts you gave up eating during the morning sales briefing. (Considering an 8-ounce serving of Snapple Apple has more sugar than 2 and a half Krispy Kreme glazed donuts, you were probably off reaching for the box rather than the bottle.)
— ERIC ROGELL on Discovery.com
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