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NZ Ecochick
www.nzecochick.com
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This blog is about how my family tries to reduce our impact on the Earth, living frugally, our family life and general sharing. Enjoy!
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New outside table

 I got this super cool table from freecycle. As soon as I saw it I just knew what I wanted to do with it.First I gave the table a good clean and took off the glass top.  I sprayed the ...

23 h ago

Cleaning your dishwasher

I was reading one good thing by jillees blog. Wow our blogs are so similar! It scares me!She has so many great natural money saving alternatives.She had a post about cleaning your dishwasher nat...

1 day ago

Calendula coconut cream

 I found this super easy and amazing recipe on creative Christian mama.All you need is coconut oil and calendula petals.I cheated and bought my petals as you need so many flowers to produce this...

2 days ago

Sparkling glasses

I love my dishwasher it saves me so much time and uses much less water than washing by hand.I am, however, concerned about the toxicity of dishwasher tablets/ liquids.(I am going to have a go at...

3 days ago

Lampshade redo

 I was given this cute lamp for my birthday a few years ago but it never really went with my decor.So when I saw some beautiful fabric on sale at spotlight I just knew a redo was in or...

4 days ago

Insulating difficult spots

 During our renovations we insulated all the walls; internal and external.The external walls we insulated to keep heat inand the internal walls we insulated to help soundproof them. Our house is...

5 days ago

Protecting your clothes from the sun

The New Zealand sun is super harsh! I love love a sunny day and just sun shine. Its so wonderful but with a hole in the ozone layer over us we need to be careful.Here we all know to keep co...

6 days ago

Toothbrush alternatives

We all need to brush our teeth young and old.Some annual statistics from Go Bamboo; 30 million toothbrushes are thrown in the tip in Australia and22,000 tonnes of toothbrushes are thrown in the tip i...

26 may 12

Car survival kit

You never know when something might happen so it pays to be prepared. I have my car all packed up in case of an emergency.In my boot I have a 3L container of water, a change of clothes for John,...

25 may 12

Organising the toy cupboard

A few months ago I made a play room for John in our lounge. John loves having his own space that he can play in.I love that I can pack all his toys up in one place but over the last little while...

24 may 12

Home made bee balm

 I love making my own products. I find it so satisfying.Not to mention it saves me lots of money!I also know exactly what has gone into the product.  In my search to find a new baby botty b...

23 may 12

Hanging basket lining

 On my veranda I had three empty linerless baskets.So I decided to line the baskets with weed matting.I got the weed matting off freecycle but if I hadnt been able to get some I was thinking of ...

22 may 12

Scraping the bottom

 When I was feeding  a little baby the other dayhe chose to have Marmite on his toast.Marmite is one of Johns favourite breakfast spreads but there isa country wide shortage.So I literally ...

21 may 12

Mama pads organisation

 Being a woman one thing we have to deal with is our monthly cycle.There are loads of green sanitary options out there from organic cotton, or natural disposables, to mama pads or menstrual...

20 may 12

Metal rubbish bin

Some more deplastification going down at my place. Years ago I bought this big plastic rubbish bin.The bin has served us well all these years but its plastic.So out it goes (well its now in the ...

19 may 12

Vegetable fritters

We made a yummy dinner the other night.Fritters are a great way to feed a family cheaply and also the kiddies can get involved.Fritters are a great way to get your kids to eat vegetables.Fritter...

18 may 12

Sewing rubbish tin

 Another one of my little spray projects is a new sewing rubbish tin.I love reusing items from around the house.This time I used an old formula tin.   I sprayed the tin 3 times but thi...

17 may 12

More glass soap dispensers

I love my glass soap dispenser and so does my mum.I made her one out of a cool old jam jar for mothers day. A few things I learnt from last time:When you cut the hole in the lid make sure the li...

16 may 12

Lemon curd

 A girlfriend has a wonderful lemon tree that I love to pick from.Homegrown lemons are so much juicer than store bought.  I never really used lemons but now I seem to use them all the time....

15 may 12

New slippers

Winter is fast approached and its getting cold.I hate cold feet. Yep I do!So my lovely mother in law knitted me some super cute slippers.  Arent they cute.Normally I buy fluffy animals slippers ...

14 may 12

Beach weekend

My best friend lives at this super cute place near the beach and since she was away house sitting she kindly let us stay in her home for the weekend. We had the most wonderful weekend away at the bea...

13 may 12

Organising my chest freezer

Since we moved our chest fridge into the kitchen we made room to buy a chest freezer for the laundry.I generally use glass jars to store our freezables in so I needed a tough storage system.  I ...

13 may 12

Shower curtain alternatives

I love having a shower.Whenever Im in a bad mood or upset about something having a shower always makes everything better. Kind of like a good nights sleep. Having showers obviously needs a ...

11 may 12

Compost bin

Ive been deplasticing our home (yes I made that word up isnt it cool?). Slowly Ive been exchanging plastic items in our home for more durable items. My latest victim is our compost bin.&nbs...

10 may 12

Wallpaper drawer liners

I love my new huge solid rimu vanity. Even better I bought it second hand off trade me for a fraction of what it would have cost to make/ buy. Score!Since the vanity is solid rimu I was wor...

10 may 12

Peg tin

 Ive been using an old ice cream container to keep all our pegs in.Its not pretty but its been practical. I decided to get my craft on and turn a paint tin into my new peg tin.I bought...

07 may 12

Yummy lunch

Made the yummiest lunch today. A friend told me about this fantastic sandwich combo. I used our cool sandwich press. I love sandwich presses you can make so much yummy food.My lunchWha...

07 may 12

Curried eggs

 I had a wonderful high tea with some girlfriends today.I love getting dressed up and having high tea (well more just little muffins and other yummies on pretty plates).I made some mini bro...

06 may 12

Glass soap dispenser

A while ago I saw this fantastic soap dispenser tutorial on Heather Bullard and I just knew I had to make one of these!!Actually I want to make two; one for the kitchen and one for the new ...

04 may 12

Halve your milk bill

We go through quite a bit of milk here with John still having morning and night feeds. So Im all for saving ourselves some money!Recently I had someone inform me that you can use ...

03 may 12

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