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All you need is a piece of wood, some nails, a hammer and some collected bottle caps. All you need to do is nail your bottle caps to the wood (with the flat side against the wood), the pleated/ jagged edges will scrape shoes of mud and snow keeping the inside of your home cleaner.

Biodegradable seedling pots-
Making a biodegradable newspaper pot for starting seeds is a great way to recycle and it makes for easily raised seedlings. Sometimes transplanting seedlings is difficult and the root systems often become damaged. Also, gathering enough small pots for planting your seedlings can be expensive and burdensome. A great solution for this is using an easy origami box fold to create a biodegradable seedling pot. Anyone can easily turn a piece of newspaper into a box that you fill with soil and begin growing you seeds. I found this creative earth friendly craft idea at http://www.geocities.com/newsp aperpots/

Backyard compost bin-
The ultimate in earth friendly practices is composting. Did you know you can turn kitchen wastes into gold for your garden? All you need to do is compost and you can create your own home worm bin/ composter from free materials. Over at http://hedgewizardsdiary.blogs pot.com/2007/11/how-to-make-si mple-worm-bin-from-free.html I found some very good plans for building a worm bin of your own.

Reusable grocery bags from old plastic bags-
You can make your own reusable sturdy grocery bags from the old plastic bags the stores give you. In our area these are not recyclable and we have many lying around that we would hate to throw out. Crocheting these together to make creative and reusable shopping bags is a great idea! All you do is cut the bags in to strips and crochet them together. You can see some nice photos of this project at: http://users.frii.com/sos/Bag/ MarketBag.html

Whether you are trying to use items found in nature for crafts or if you are just looking for ways to reuse/ recycle in your crafting endeavors you are crafting in an earth friendly way and that is great!

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