Reusing Baby Bottles
So you've seen a clever and pretty way to reuse glass baby food jars. But what about baby bottles? We have quite an assortment, both plastic and glass, that we would hate to toss. Reader Tracy sent...
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Juice Box Boats
A picnic, playdate or party at our house usually results in several empty juice boxes. We've already showed you a great way to reuse your glass baby food jars. How about scheduling your own regatta ...
Etsy Find: Box Life Book Cabinet
We still regret getting rid of our university-era milk crate bookshelves in a delusional fit of thinking we had outgrown them. This upcycled take on milk crate cabinetry is calling our name. Available...
What's Your Walk Score?
As we were reminded on a recent vacation, our driving skills are getting slightly rusty after almost fifteen years living in New York City. Sure we'd love to fill up a car trunk with groceries or c...
SIGGskins
It seems as though nowadays, thankfully, everyone is carrying a stainless steel water bottle. With so many at school, home and in the office, how can you make sure yours is easy to find? The fine fo...
Reusing Baby Food Jars
Reusing glass baby food jars isn't a new idea. The chubby pots make for great containers for all manner of items - craft and sewing supplies, spices, spare change. But we always have one complaint a...
Green Ideas: ReUsies
If you're not into washing your plastic sandwich bags, ReUsies are another good option. A couple of Seattle moms started the company when they realized just how many plastic bags their families went ...
Personalized Water Bottles by Lima Bean Kids
It's great to see so many kids using reusable water bottles at the playground and out and about, but (as Tammy pointed out) there are a few popular brands and it's easy for bottles to get mixed up w...
Stainless Steel LunchBots
Not to be confused with these Lunchbots, LunchBots offer an alternative to plastic for food on-the-go. Perfect for school lunches, it's summertime so we're thinking this could be our new vade mecum...
Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule
We may not always have the time to make the crafts that Amanda Blake Soule (aka Soule Mama) documented in her first book, The Creative Family, but perusing its pages always soothes our spirit. Amanda,...
Packaging As Toys
By now we're all familiar with the popularity of recycled and recyclable cardboard toys and kids furniture. Before the recent cardboard trend, we used to hoard shoe boxes to create a stacked apartmen...
Now Available! Burlap Basket Patterns at Maya*Made
As any Maya*Made fan knows, Maya's gorgeous burlap baskets are hot-ticket items, usually disappearing from her Etsy shop within hours of being listed. For all you DIY types, Maya is now making availab...
Green Ideas: Plastic Bag Dryer
Even if you're trying to use mostly reusable bags, chances are sandwich bags still come in handy- especially for snacks and traveling with the kids this summer. Is it gross to recycle them? We're pr...
Power Hog Piggy Bank Teaches Kids About Saving Energy
When we stumbled upon this kid-friendly gadget that took second place in this year's Greener Gadgets competition, we just knew we had to share. Designed to help teach kids a lesson about conservatio...
Carton Series Furniture
Design Milk just featured this cardboard kids' furniture series called Carton. Cardboard, especially for childrens' furniture and play houses, is super chic and we've featured a lot of it here at Ohd...
Green Ideas: Magazine Mosaic
If you're like us and you still get quite a few catalogs in the mail- you can at least put them to good use after you peruse them. Anthropologie catalogs- esp. their quilts and shower curtains, woul...
Look! Tamago
Tamago means "egg" in Japanese. We're not sure if the name references the soft contours of this furniture series or the fact that it's made of the same material as egg cartons - 100% recycled paper pu...
Etsy Find: unPaper Towels
For a long time, we kept a stack of old baby washcloths (of which we seemed to have a million) in the kitchen to use in lieu of paper towels for cleaning up spills and squeegee-ing sticky kids. But wh...
How To: Small Space Salad Box
Sunset Magazine
Now here's an all-you-can-eat salad bar worth going to! We've really enjoyed popping out to the backyard to snip herbs from our pots these past few weeks, but, wow, it would be pretty amazing to gr...
Green Idea: Repurposed Container Gardening
Here's an idea that's green in more ways than one. Ohdeedoh reader Amida wrote in to show us how her family re-uses an amazing variety of containers to house seedlings for their kitchen garden. If you...
Kid Friendly Table Transformation
Where there's a before shot, there's always an after! We promise you want to see what this table makes a diy transformation into! It could used for creatures with 2 legs or 4 and be tailored to ma...
Make Your Place by Raleigh Briggs
Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
Brought up on Helpful Hints from Heloise, we didn't know a home "how to" book could be so...cool. Hand written and illustrated by Raleigh Briggs, Make Your Place is a gem of a book full of informat...
Eco Friendly Fresh Snack Packs
It's time for picnics, road trips, vacations and long days spent at the park or beach. If you're planning on taking your snacks and lunches with you, these PVC-free, non-toxic plastic and reuseable ...
Green Idea: Stainless Steel Straws
What kid doesn't love a bendy straw? But it would never even occur to us to bother buying plastic straws because it's not a necessity and just ends up in the trash. These, on the other hand, can ev...
Picnica Rabbit Tote
Chances are low that we'd walk the streets of Brooklyn with a rabbit dangling from our bag (even lower that our husband would walk anywhere near us), but we'd sure make this a stroller buddy for our...
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