Making Your Own: Great Ways to Save Money and the Environment

You'll discover brilliant ways to create amazing homemade treasures that save you money while caring for our planet! Our expert contributors share tried and tested projects across crafts, beauty, gardening, food and eco living that help you rediscover the joy of making quality items yourself. Making Your Own is here to help.

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Make Your Own Deodorant

You can easily make your own deodorant at home, if you’ve been thinking about switching from shop-bought brands. After all, nobody likes to think that they...

Make Your Own Water Butt

In the UK, sometimes there's no telling whether our water butts are going to be brimming over or stone dry during the summer. The weather is becoming unpredi...

Make Your Own Board Games

Making board games with your family is fun. In fact, it can be as much fun as game-playing itself. The board games you make can be very simple and variations...

Make Your Own Plastic Bottle Greenhouse

So why on earth would you want to make your own greenhouse out of plastic bottles? Well, we all know that the British weather can be less than reliable. So f...

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Make Your Own Christmas Puddings

“I remember my grandmother making Christmas puddings when I was a child. We all had to have a stir and make a wish before she filled the pudding basins. An...

Make Your Own Ginger Beer

Ginger beer has been a popular traditional drink for centuries. After a long hot day working in the fields or down the pits, miners and farm hands alike enjo...

Using Honey to Make Your Own Beauty Treatments

Picture the late great Elizabeth Taylor in one of her most famous roles, that of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Beneath the heavy make-up needed to create the...

Make Your Own Birthday Cards

Handmade birthday cards are unique and personal; they’re special. They say, ‘I care enough about you to make the effort.’ And, in fact, the effort does...

Make Your Own Board Games

Making board games with your family is fun. In fact, it can be as much fun as game-playing itself. The board games you make can be very simple and variations...

Make Your Own Easter Eggs

Making our own Easter eggs is a fun activity, especially with children. You should be warned, though, your kitchen will get messy! In addition, don’t expec...

Make Your Own Fabric Flowers

Fabric flowers can be used for lots of things – for hair accessories or brooches, for example, or to decorate your home. There are a number of different wa...

Make Your Own Breakfast Cereal

Breakfast cereals are a popular and nutritious way to start the day but shop-bought brands can get expensive and boring - they can also contain far more salt...

Make Your Own Valentine's Gifts

A home-made gift is the perfect way to show you care on Valentine’s day. You don ‘t have to be professionally skilled – there are things you can create...

Make Your Own Wedding Favours

The little details are often important at a wedding but accessories such as favours can get expensive, especially when you have a lot of guests. You could tr...

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