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Taking care of our planet matters to me more and more as time passes by. Slowly, I’m becoming more aware of how much we just use and throw away, and consequently, waste is becoming something that bothers me. Even throwing away onion peals or eggs shells is something that doesn’t sit right with me anymore. If it can be transformed, then I want to do it. While a compost bin still has some “questions of logistics” to be considered, I can start re-purpose other things. And the next item on the list of “things that have a short life span” comes water bottles. Yes, they can be recycled, although I’m still using them once and then throwing them away (to recycling). I want to give them a new life before they are shredded into tiny pieces to be reborn again. Then one day, while losing myself in the slow living …

The days might be cloudy and rainy, but one thing is undeniable: Spring has arrived. And the small taste o sunny weather brings out the gardener in me. It’s beautiful to watch something grow day after day, taking care of it, and then harvest the hard work. For the longest time, I wanted to create a small garden with vegetables and herbs to feed my little dwarf bunny. I can’t always find diversity for her in the supermarket and grow it myself would solve the problem. I started this project back in April when everything was in lockdown. I would preferably build a vegetable patch out of wood, but with shops only half working I wasn’t going to go out exclusively to buy wood. I had to work with what I had around the house. And in one of the attics clear-out, I went through all the architecture models I …

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Upcycling Water Bottles as Plant Pots

Making a Vegetable Patch for my Bunny