Charmaine McPherson

Collected pasta water in an old gallon sized ice cream bucket over the course of a couple weeks until it was full. I watered a shrub in the backyard with it.

I replaced a zipper in this skirt for my friend’s daughter. It took me about an hour to do.
I had to take out the broken zipper, measure and trim for the new one and then sew it in. I carefully observed how the original zipper was placed and mimicked it.

My youngest son has a favorite blanket that I made for him about 3 years ago and he sleeps with it every night. The back had a giant hole in it which just broke his little heart.
I mended it with cotton thread, a needle and scissors.

This is a shirt that my husband wears to WarHammer tournaments, it’s one of his favorites. The hole in it was worse than I thought when he originally asked me to mend it. so I had to get creative with my mending.
I used a sock that my youngest outgrew on the back to keep the fabric in place and as a patch of sorts.
I used cotton thread, a needle and scissors as well.

Third time is the charm I hope.
I cleaned the kitchen today. It took almost 4 hours because I had to stop for frequent breaks due to a bad sciatic nerve flare Ive been dealing with. Nevertheless, I got it done!!

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I made a scarf!! Turns out I really enjoy crochet
100% cotton yarn. The main portion was made with the yarn I gathered from a sweater and the tassels were made with yarn I found at a thrift store.
I used a half double stitch on the entire thing and a 2.5mm hook. (I don’t know what letter that comes to)

Trying again with a different soap. I did more research on greywater safe soaps and found this one. I bought a small bottle of it at my local Walmart.
https://www.seventhgeneration.com/blog/dos-and-donts-greywater-systems

I used empty ice cream buckets to measure my water usage. Each one is a gallon and I filled them between halfway and three-quarters of the way.
Entire dishwasher is full to the brim with clean dishes now!

This was very time consuming, but now my mind is reeling with future projects!
I personally don’t drink anything carbonated so I collected my husbands and my brother in laws pop cans.
I used parchment paper and an iron the flatten them which took forever!!

The hole in the arm of my couch started small and over only 2 weeks it’s become a huge problem. Could it have anything to do with my kids pretending the couch is a trampoline? 🤷‍♀️
I used a pretty price of cotton fabric and cotton thread to patch it up.
Other materials used were a needle, straight pins and scissors.

I had to cut down some small aspens that were growing around the electric box. It made me sad to do it, but if I ever need it serviced, it needed to be accessible.
So I’m making the best of it by keeping the trunks as junkpoles. 2 of the trees were tall enough that I got 2 poles out of it!
All done with a bow saw.