My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner

2019 is coming to an end and it’s time to welcome this exciting new year! Have you got plans for New Year’s Eve yet? Whatever these exciting celebration plans may be, it’s time to think about how they might affect the environment! These few tricks will make sure your party doesn’t become a celebration of single use plastic! So, let’s celebrate this closing year with style! Follow me! Venue and decorations: If you’re heading out to a venue or restaurant, make sure you choose a place that doesn’t rely on single use plastics and glossy banners (hint hint, try looking...

Inexpensive sustainable and plastic free ideas for your Christmas dishes… For the Dinner Make sure you shop locally and in season. Don’t forget to take your own bags! (And your own containers if you’re going to your local butchers). For the dinner table, have you ever thought of providing your little ones with bamboo cutlery instead of plastic ones? Take a look at it!    For the Snacks Crisp packets are currently not recyclable. The inside of the packets may look shiny and as though they’re made of foil but is actually a metallised plastic film! To reduce your plastic usage...

It’s Christmas! It’s cold! Let’s do something fun! Here are a few activity ideas to do with your child this Christmas holiday! From baking cookies, to making your own stamp, and creative cards, involve your child in the Christmas spirit and let them have a blast!   Bake cookies. “MMMMM… Christmas!” Let’s get into the Christmas spirit! Head to your local food market and get your ingredients! It’s time to start baking! …Just remember to take your own bags. Buying your ingredients and spices to create the perfect dough is the best way to avoid pre- plastic wrapped cookies. Adding...

It's that time of the year again, where we are all looking for Christmas presents for loved ones. Not easy to find the perfect product at the best of times, but when you are also challenged with the task of going plastic-free this Christmas, your efforts need to be more than doubled!  My aim is to have a low plastic Christmas this year, as a strategy toward being completely plastic free in 5 years time. My theory here is that it's better that most of the population of the world aim toward lowering our plastic footprint than just a tiny proportion of us...

A couple of weekends ago, I hosted a 'Baby Welcome' party to a beautiful little fella, the son of a very good friend of mine. I challenged myself to running an eco friendly party! And I used the products from the Eco Kids Party Food Supplies bundle and the Eco Kids Party Decoration bundle, available on Plastic Free Baby.  The 100% cotton bunting was the first thing to go up (I did it the night before, while Finn my son was sleeping... it would have been a bit chaotic to try doing it with him around, for fear of entangling him!). The...