Last week we blogged about getting nostalgic so when I across this little idea it was quite serendipitous!
What about swapping your cordless phone for a traditional corded variety? These phones are infinitely more stylish than a new fangled one, don’t require a separate plug-in for electricity and don’t use energy all day long. It’s a no-brainer for any stylish home-owner!
p.s. – It just goes to show if you hang on to anything long enough it’ll come round again!
Thanks to tiny choices.
This really is the time of year for giving. At tuiss we try our best in more ways than one to share. One example is what we do with things we no longer need.
When we’ve finished our photo shoots we obviously don’t need the window blinds anymore so we take the blinds to our local Oxfam Home shop. What a treat for some lucky bargain hunter, a tuiss blind!
We really had to think outside the box when it came to thinking what to do with fabric samples that we no longer needed. The Women’s Institute is the lucky recipient where nimble fingered ladies turn them into all manner of wonderful bits and pieces. What a nice ending for a scrap of fabric!
Wherever you are in the UK at the moment I imagine that if you glance out of your window you will see a landscape bedecked in snow! It’s a bit of of a shame that it’s National Tree Week, planned to coincide with the tree planting season. Touch on the chilly side if you ask me!
Although it may seem that there are plenty of trees, Britain is one of the least wooded countries in Europe and the planting of new trees has fallen to its lowest level for three decades.
So, do you have room in your garden for a tree? The Telegraph may inspire you with their top 20 trees.
Last year’s advent calendar blog post proved so popular I thought I’d have a whizz around the internet once more and find 2010’s advent calendar gems.
Here for your enjoyment (year after year) …
Did you know that 95% of the energy used by the UK’s mobile phone chargers is wasted energy? Only 5% is actually used to charge phones, the rest is used when the charger is plugged into the wall but not switched off at the socket.
The same goes for other chargers too, switch them off when they’re not charging. It doesn’t get any simpler!
What to do with all the leaves falling off the trees at the moment? The easy way is to create leaf mould, sounds delightful doesn’t it?
The beauty of creating leaf mould is that you won’t fill your bin up with leaves and in a couple of years you will have the most fantastic peat like matter to dig back into your garden.
Quite simply put the leaves in a black bag, add some water and punch holes in the side. Leave in a corner of your garden and hey presto the magic will work. For more detailed instructions just visit Recycle Now or Compost Gardener.
Some of the tuiss team had a trip to London last weekend to visit 100% design and Decorex.
We had a splendid time checking out the current and future trends and we couldn’t help adding the tuiss url to the massive blackboard asking ‘What is the future of design?’.
Slowly but surely autumnal days are creeping in, so my mind has turned to thinking about autumn, which inevitably leapt to leaves and then kind of inevitably leapt to hedgehogs.
Hedgehogs need our help, particularly in the colder months and it’s easier than you think to create a hedgehog friendly corner of your garden. You can even make or buy you own hoggy home to keep them safe and secure through the winter.
Take a look at the British Hedgehog Preservation Society or Snuffle Lodge, a hedgehog sanctuary based here in Nottingham, for hedgehog care advice.
This one really is easy. It must be because I do it myself! Mix up your very own glass or window cleaner in a jiffy.
Save one of those spray bottles then just pour in 1 jug of water and a quarter jug of vinegar. Hey presto your own cleaner.
I particularly like it for cleaning my glass hob and oven door, spray on, rub with scrunched up newspaper then buff with one of those e-cloths.
You will feel incredibly virtuous I guarantee it!
Receiving the post at tuiss has never been so rewarding…
We’ve been running a wee competition with Prima magazine to win some window blinds. Never ever, ever did we expect the sheer number of postcards to hit our doorstep though! Nor did we expect the wonderful variety of postcards, even home-made ones that play tunes!
Those Prima readers certainly know how to send a good postcard! (Apologies for all the exclamation marks!!)
