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In Interior Design

Baxter and Snow – Gorgeous Home Items

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on 2 Comments

Some time ago I came across a fantastic Facebook page after noticing a friend had “liked” it. That page was Baxter and Snow – recycled wooden wine boxes. Instantly I fell in love.
What the clever owner does is to use her skills to transform wine boxes into gorgeous home items such as craft boxes and magazine racks. I couldn’t resist buying one of the larger boxes which I intended to use for my desk up in the office.

It didn’t get past the kitchen.

If you look at the many examples of how people have used their boxes on Facebook you’ll see why I wanted one so badly. Of course, being a busy family home mine was put to a less photo-worthy but definitely a most organised use.

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Mine sits on top of the our built in fridge in the kitchen. This unit is traditionally known as The Dump Zone. It has envelopes for school trip money, a school diary, small change, pens and pencils, a usb, sticky tape and glue, a piece of string, a cotton reel, cards, lip salve, plasters, drawing pins, safety pins, stickers, rail tickets, notepaper and the other 101 things that we use regularly or need to have to hand. It is also a handy place to empty your pockets, file mail to look at later and dump bits and pieces without making a mess.

And it looks blinking fantastic!

Unfortunately I now need to get another for my desk and am hoping to convince them that they want to make me a charging station 🙂

I’m posting this purely because I think these items are fantastic and hope that a few of you will be as thrilled with them as I was.  Baxter and Snow don’t keep in a bulk of stock and list items on their FB page as they are available so look sharp and bag yourself a gorgeous home item.

Baxter and Snow

In General

The Christmas Recyclometer

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on

I wrote a post a while ago about the Coca-Cola Recyclometer and the Plant Bottle which you can read here. Basically, as part of their ongoing work at looking into ways of reducing waste and promoting recycling, the team at Coca-Cola have spent months tirelessly collecting facts and figures to give us a tool which makes it easier to recycle.

Lets face it, some of us recycle without thinking about it, some of us (I include myself here), try to recycle and usually remember but aren’t exactly the most savvy when it comes to what you can and what you can’t recycle, and where.

The original Recyclometer is packed full of fantastic info and is a very interactive tool. Kieran loves it.

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Being festive people, the team have given the Recyclometer a Christmas makeover so you now see where you can recycle items used more frequently in the winter months, and how much energy each item saves!

It’s well worth a visit, it’s a great tool for the kids (who if they are anything like my eldest, know much more the envirnment and recycling than I do!) but is also suitable for the rest of the household. It makes things easier, it tells us what we need to know and more so there is no excuse not to use our recycling services to the full.

Slightly off topic, many of you, like myself see the Coca-Cola truck and see this as the marker for the beginning of the festive season. When I was told that the lovelies from Coca-Cola had also produced a fun festive quiz I was confident I would ace it. Apparently not!!

Have some fun and give it a go and see how you get on!*

*If you get them all right the first time, please don’t feel like you need to tell me, it’ll just make me feel worse!

Coca-Cola have really pulled out the stops with this tool which covers much more than I can write about, have a visit and enjoy using the easy to navigate Christmas Recyclometer.

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