Rowzat's Upcycled Creations

If you want to make a New Year's resolution to reduce waste, but getting creative with the trash is not your cup of tea, here are a few ...

  It's the holiday season. While my Jewish-Muslim family does not do a lot for Christmas, many of our friends celebrate. I had a few eve...

This year it appears that we have reached 1.5 C of warming above preindustrial levels.   This level of temperature increase is not sustained...

Food waste in the United States is a problem. The Department of Agriculture estimates that 30 to 40 percent of the food supply eventually be...

Yes, I recently brought the used soap bars home from a recent hotel stay. I carried them in a bag which once held frozen fruit f...

  Over the past week, I mended three towels. Two towels still had a lot of fluff.  The other was simply beloved by my spouse, even though I ...

Every once and a while I decide that rug making would be kind of cool. But it never goes as planned. I started this rug for the ...

  I am not generally a purse person. I use them to carry my stuff, but I don't have many. I use a relatively small crossbody purse daily...

One of the things that really bothers me about gift-giving is all the packaging. I love the aesthetics of a well put together gi...

We have a debate in our household on what the item above is called.  I call it a potholder.  My middle schooler insists it is an oven mitt. ...