Eco Flowers!

Eco friendly flowers can be found in many shapes, sizes and for all kinds of uses! Check these out...

ECO DAISIES - Brand New Handmade Paper Embellishment, ALL Recycled Papers by kitsandcaboodles


Flowery Makeup Removal Cloths by EcoKate


Fleur Yellow Textile Eco Flower Set in Yellow and White Check with Dried Lavender by SoSheSews

Moss Mania

Moss is catching on in the crafting world. I have been a fan of mossy craftings ever since I discovered the awesome moss makes of Ottoman, like this Moss Pincushion



More recently, neatness like moss terrariums have cropped up, an ingeniously adorable conception of madebymavis. These little terrariums combine nature and vintage to form very unique decorative pieces.



And last in this wonderfully green moss collection today, comes a set of Gather Moss Earrings by AdornJewelry. They're so intriguing I can't look away!

Eco Art!

Flip Off Cap Upcycled 3D Collage Art Eco-Friendly Rainbow Circles


ORANGE CRUSH vintage recycled retro rocket robot 1000 PIECES no. 62

Linen Love

Linen is so simple and beautiful in its own right. I have a true appreciation for this light, airy textile, and I'd love to share it with you now...

Undyed Hemp Linen:

Hemp Wristlet by infusion

Upcycled Linen:

echo-bag 7 by simpledream2

Adorable Linen:

The White Owl by lapomme

Organic Love

V-day gift ideas for those organically natural loves in your life...

♡ Hemp Silk Blossom by infusion


♡ WILD WOMYN BLOOMERS by undertheroot


♡ ORGANIC...te amo...Ladies' V-neck by neenacreates


♡ One Savvy Organic Bib by HandMadeNaturals

The Body Scrub to Die for...

Helena's Organic Botanical Shop offers the yummiest (I'm sorry, there's just no other word for it) body scrub ever! I purchased her "Organic Fine Sea Salt and Botanical Body Scrub with Mowrah Butter" (yes, it's a mouthful), and had sweet almond oil and coffee grinds added to it. After my first use I came out of the shower smelling like some heavenly mix of coffee and vanilla and found my skin to be fabulously moisturized!

This scrub is perfect for this time of year especially, where I usually come out of a hot shower feeling like a dried up prune with the lack of humidity in the air. This scrub exfoliates and does my moisturizing for me! No need to take an extra 10 minutes to apply some stinky and sticky moisturizer all over. If you haven't figured it out already, I can't say enough good things about this shop! I think the best part is that there are a ton of natural and organic ingredients in this scrub, and its prepared by hand! It's well worth the cost, and I'm totally going back for more, as soon as I need a refill!

Oooh, try out Helena's lip balms too! I purchased a lemon/blueberry blend and it's quite delicious. Hope you derive as much pleasure from her shop as I have!

Eco Dispenser

Oooh, these soap dispensers made of recycled glass by BreadandBadger (of Portland, Oregon) are so pretty! And aside from their recycled nature, the earth also benefits because you no longer have to purchase those plastic soap dispensers that get a one-time use, are flimsy and bendable, and then need to be recycled (which is just extra energy expenditure that is unnecessary). And let's face it, these dispensers are just flat out good looking...

Roll Up Your Makeup

itssewyou8 made this cute makeup brush and tools organizer from some beautiful reclaimed fabric. I need one of these BAD. Right now my makeup tools are kind of all over the place, and require an annoying amount of digging, cursing, and fist shaking before I can find what I'm looking for...

~Kate

All About the Bath

This week I'm focusing on eco-friendly crafty finds that you can use in and for bathroom purposes.



I'm starting it off with a biggie, in my book. The washable and reusable feminine menstrual pad. I am a big advocate for these, and therefore a big user of them. I love the cloth pad options for sale by NaturallyHip especially. They're very decently priced, and come in a lot of cute colors and patterns.

Reactions I've gotten from people in my life that know I use cloth pads are that they're somehow gross, unsanitary etc. That's an incorrect and narrow point of view that completely disregards the benefits of these cloths, to the earth, to my body, and to my wallet. If you care an ounce for the amount of waste you're contributing to our landfills alone, you'll consider cloth pads, and get over the negative reaction people sometimes have towards them. They're way more comfortable than pads made of plastic, and work wonderfully to absorb.

When you're done with one, you throw it in a container of water (I add some eco-friendly detergent and baking soda in the water with them) and let soak for a few hours to separate everything that was absorbed back out of the pad. You can then hand or machine wash these pads and air or machine dry em! I've been using mine for over a year now and they're all in great shape. They just keep on goin!

~Kate

Adventures in Purse Hunting...

Here's an adventurous purse for the eco-conscious teen...


This bag combines a recycled wool sweater, vintage tie, and its handmade element to bring you quite the adorably eco-friendly shoulder bag.

Bag by coffeeclouds

A Move & a Sale

I'm moving my ShutterKate shop to a new location...(typed drum roll)... KnitStorm.com!



I plan on migrating the items in ShutterKate over to Knitstorm in the next month. To speed up the move, I'm offering 20% off of any item at ShutterKate.com from now until the shop is completely empty and migrated! Take advantage of this great offer! To get your 20% off, leave a note to buyer during check out that says "Moving Sale" and wait to receive a revised invoice from me via email before you make your payment... If you have any questions on this process, you can email me with them.




Why the move?? Well for one, it was too much to have both shops open at once. I need one shop to focus all of my efforts on. And while ShutterKate is perhaps better known right now, I feel like KnitStorm better represents the items I sell by the name alone, and so I have no qualms with promoting KnitStorm.com like crazy!



So make sure you check out KnitStorm.com, heart it and tell all your friends about it too!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm giving thanks today for all the wonderful artists and crafters on the web that have made Eco Craftiness possible!

In particular, I want to thank those of you who have joined up to the EcoCraftiness Flickr Group and posted photos of your beautiful creations! Here are just some of the fabulous items shared to the group.







Click here if you'd like to join the EcoCraftiness Flickr group too!

Cyber Monday Sale from EtsyNJ!

The EtsyNJ Street Team is having a cyber Monday sale coming up! There are a TON of great deals from Etsy shops located in New Jersey, and my own shop, ShutterKate, is among them. So check out all of these great deals and get going on your Holiday shopping on Monday, December 1st!

At my shop, any purchase throughout Cyber Monday (December 1st) will get you a free knitted key fob like this one currently for sale in my shop. These make GREAT stocking stuffers!

Speaking of Bowls...

bowl by earthmamahyde

I love cloth bowls. Their wonderful textures and decorative qualities make them entirely appealing to me. On top of that, this one happens to be made from an old flannel sheet, turned into cloth yarn and crocheted into this beautiful bowl! The colors are perfect for this time of year. I kinda wanna live in it...

Map Your Meal

With a metro map bowl!

Ok, maybe you shouldn't put food in it, so much as decorate your place in an awesome way with it. Here's the down-low on the bowl:

This decorative bowl is hand molded from paper pulp made from recycled waste paper—in this case recycled paper packing material, with a copy of an old map of Washington DC lining the inside.

Check this one and more out at picapicadesign.

Re-mapped

Envelopes made from surplus map pages! Annarubyking adds her own art and style to these, to give them that extra eco-appeal.

Micro Madness

Dioramas are taken to a new scale with this micro mini tiny city by sparklerama! I would have DIED for something as cute as this as a kid. Let's face it, mini = marvelous...
Extra props for making this out of an old matchbox!

I've got the pinkish blues...

How about you?

Butterfly in a Teacup. diorama by lapomme


3 Cleaning Cloths by EcoKate


Psychedelic fish flannel napkins by WeeBeaks

If you're a fan of our little feathered friends, you might just really dig some of these eco-friendly handmade items:

Squeal for Teal

I'm in love this this color. This has been true for so long that I'm almost positive my love for it will never fade. Tell me you don't love it too...I dare ya.