Being sustainable is at the heart of Little Conkers – as I often say, if I can’t do it sustainably, I just don’t do it.
I stopped using the majority of my adhesive labels, when I realised it just wasn’t feasible to recycle the backing sheets as I had hoped.
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I’ve been cheerfully darning and repairing lots of items this week. An ex-colleague of Mr Conkers, remembering the visible mending I’d done on one of his jumpers, asked if I could repair some woollens after an attack of clothes moths.
Time for some more remedial work on my jeans! Here’s how I lengthened them, and some more visible mending.
A couple of weeks ago, I was getting very, very annoyed at not being able to find a nightdress for my 5-year-old daughter.
A nightdress that she would be comfortable in, and like, and that I thought was age-appropriate and practical.
I didn’t think my requirements were that exacting – Read More