0ctavia's Recycling Lenses

Super Household Saving Tips

My daughter and I were talking about this the other evening. She collects dollhouses and, having recently bought one of the older Triang number 50s, she was comparing it to a 1960s one and discovered that the quality had dropped. Of course, there a...

Recycling sweaters into new accessories

Often a jersey or sweater will wear through at the elbows or develop a hole somewhere just through use. While smaller holes can be darned and elbows can be patched over, modern jerseys etc don't lend themselves to patching as it rather ruins th...

Making old clothes into funky bags

This lens joins my other recycling lenses (links below the guestbook) to hopefully save you some money and keep the "trash" out of the landfill. I'll add more bags as I go along but there are only so many hours in the day. I hope the...

Recycling cloth into new household items.

This lens is associated with my lens giving household savings tips as it made sense to expand on some of the specific subjects touched on. It's just a day since I started that lens and in that time I have made the item which features on this le...

Simple Stitches

I decided that, to go along with my lenses about re-using cloth and clothes, it would be a good idea to make a lens showing some of the simpler hand and embroidery stitches. Many years ago when I was starting out with sewing of all kinds, I made my...

Making Rag Dolls and Soft Toys from Scrap Fabrics

The lens photo is one of a number of dolls I've made using up scraps of material. Some were given away as presents, many were sold and I have more pictures of them to add as time goes on. But I want to get you started on toy making - it really...

Making Pastry

... that's what it said in a recipe book I used to have which dated from the 1600s ... no, I'm not that old LOL This lens was made for referencing from the other lenses I am preparing on money-saving recipes and recipes using up left overs....

Chicken leftovers - food for the imagination

Sadly, I know quite a few households who will have just one meal and perhaps a sandwich or light salad from a chicken. What a waste! Perhaps these folks don't realise just how much nutritious food is left on that chicken, even in the carcass you...

Sweet and Savoury Sauces

The perfect accompaniment to many dishes, sauces are also a wonderful way to jazz up your leftovers - even to present them as special dishes. A basic sauce is not difficult to make at all, all you need is butter (or margarine), flour and milk. It&#...

Using up leftovers - Quiche

So, you just got a call to say your son is bringing his girlfriend round for dinner, 'ok Mum', and of course you said 'sure' before you looked in the fridge. You've got hardly anything in there, a few eggs, bit of bacon or leftov...

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0ctavias_Group-ography

If you have quite a few lenses you'll discover that they start hiding from you when you're looking at that long list on your dashboard. First, I started my lensography which does help me find my lenses when they're hiding but as the num...