Those old vintage tea tins you have sitting and gathering dust? Inside and outside?
Give them new life at Vriksha Nursery. Take the tins there and they’ll fill it in with gorgeous little plants that you can show off on your window sills. Those tea tins will thank you for it.
Get in touch with Vriksha, right here.
Recycle Sundays: Made entirely from discarded plastic and foil packaging, these ropes are made strong and sturdy by professional rope-makers in Gujrat and marketed by the micro-entrepreneurs of the region. Makes for happy Indian rope beds amongst a hoard of other things.
Via designer & Pii friend, Purvi Sanghvi.
Recycle Sundays: Dump your garbage into these pots, let it sit quietly and prettily in your garden and allow it to give you compost for your plants. Free! Read more here.
There’s always a flipside to too much alcohol, no not the hangover, but yes, the bottles.
We love our bottles. The weirder the shape, the more we love it. The Old Monk bottles are a particular favourite, not just for its contents, but think about it, isn’t it like the Ambassador car of bottles? A funny, round and strangely funky shape. We suggest you paint the Old Monk bottle yourself to find out exactly what we’re talking about. Here are a couple of things we did.
Painted Beer Bottles
All you’ll need is a beer bottle (we used Kingfisher, Mr Mallya needs us right now), some white acrylic paint and a brush.
Make abstract patterns like we did or paint anything you like.
Here’s a tip:
If its been a while since you held a brush, use a crayon to mark your drawing on the bottle.
The Technicolor winter bottle
Recycle Sundays: Old packs to make new packs. The team at Thunk in India thunk this all up. The result is used tetrapacks and plastic wrappers given a new life with banana fibre and coconut husk. Pick yours here www.thunkinindia.com
Paper bags handmade from old newspapers by the women of Murphy Town Slum, Bangalore. Available in 3 sizes. For orders, call Millie Mitra on 9880288634 or Sanam on 9742723648.
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