After months of lockdown home-schooling and summer holidays, the truth is parents want to keep their kids occupied with quirky activities or experiences before school returns, but sometimes finding new things to try can be tough. Enter Brooke Styles, a DIY expert who has created cheap, easy and sustainable
Geraldine Tew, founder of the Re-Creators, a social enterprise based in Auckland, New Zealand, promotes upcycling by learning to do it yourself (DIY) through our community workshops, through purchasing pre-made products or by collaborating on a custom circular design. As a parent of three children, I
Styling Sarah Heeringa, photography Amanda Reelick. Enjoy the satisfaction - and savings - of harvesting and using your own herbs. Once dried, you can use gathered flowers, homegrown herbs and surplus fruit skins to create soothing herbal potions, flavoured oils and tasty seasoning mixes. You will need: Herb scissors
Photography Emily Hlavac-Green Matilda Green shares her beauty secrets in the latest issue of Good magazine including some great beauty hacks and DIY recipes. Here are two that you might like to try at home. Matilda’s full body exfoliant “If I have a bath I rub it all
Styling and photography Sarah Heeringa Make your own portable gardening tool organiser. Keep gardening tools handy and avoid losing your hand trowels and twine with your own gardening caddy. You can create one easily using a few upcycled tins, painted in your favourite Resene colour. For the
Styling and photography Sarah Heeringa Craft your own simple ceramic labels for your herbs. Make it easy for everyone to identify the various plants and herbs in the garden with these organic-looking plant markers. YOU NEED air dry clay knife chopstick or pointed stick baking paper textured cloth clear varnish paintbrush turps straight sticks bendable wire METHOD Step 1: Cut
Photography Amanda Reelick, styling Sarah Heeringa The general lack of functional pockets in most women’s clothing is well documented and much lamented. As smart phones get bigger, we can end up awkwardly holding phones in our hands, dropping them or leaving them behind. One crafty solution
Photography Amanda Reelick, styling Sarah Heeringa PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GOOD AND RESENE Spring is when we spruce up our outside spaces in readiness for some quality outdoor time. Almost anything can be successfully painted if you use quality paint products and correctly prepare surfaces beforehand. After
Spotlight has an array of painting tutorials on their website, great for curing our boredom during lockdown. This year we're loving their Galaxy Nebula Painting tutorial. WHAT YOU NEED Black canvas Acrylic paints Foam brushesStencil paint brush METHOD Step 1. Dip the foam brush into the blue paint and
Turning your bathroom into a mini haven and pampering yourself with products that you have made yourself is a wonderful way to unwind after another day of lockdown. Making a body scrub is easy with common household ingredients such as oatmeal, brown sugar, lavender essential oil,
