Personalize your big day with a high-impact DIY garland made from coffee filters. 

Hello!Lucky shows us how to take simple coffee filters and tie them onto kitchen string to make eye-catching garlands, a project from their bestselling book Handmade Weddings.

Dyed pale pink, these ethereal coffee filter pom-poms resemble cabbage roses, and they have a dramatic impact when hung in strands. Because of the dyeing and drying time, start this project early, working in batches — especially if you anticipate needing a large number of strands. perfect for weddings and showers, you can also hang them in your living room, over your dinner table, or in your cocktail area for instant DIY delight!

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Eunice and Sabrina Moyle are sisters and co-founders of Hello!Lucky. Hello!Lucky is a design studio specializing in letterpress greeting cards, stationery, wedding invitations, and more. Eunice and Sabrina started Hello!Lucky in 2003 with a vintage Vandercook press in Eunice’s garage and now work out of a bustling studio with a team of 20 people including talented designers, printers, and sales staff. They have clients around the world and a small office in London. Sabrina is the business brains behind the company and Eunice is the creative director, but they’re both crafty and love making stuff with their hands whenever they can. Lately that usually revolves around parties and activities for their boys, they have three boys between the two of them with a fourth on the way.

They live and work in San Francisco and have been featured in various publications and lifestyle sites including Martha Stewart Weddings, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, and Real Simple. Clients include Kate’s Paperie, Paper Source, and Banana Republic.

CreativeBug, a new series of how-to videos for DIY’ers, recently launched to inspire you. For $25 a month, subscribers have unlimited access to a continuously updated library of creative workshops in knitting, crochet, sewing, jewelry, entertaining, home decorating and kids crafts. Featuring some of the country’s biggest talents, instructors include Debbie Stoller, Stitch ‘n Bitch, Heather Ross, Weekend Sewing, Christine Schmidt, Print Workshop and Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin. Creativebug’s state of the art audio and video production quality, short video segments and entertaining presentation make the videos accessible to artists of all skill levels.

CreativeBug now have multi-month packages. Subscribers can now get a discount for signing up for multiple months in advance!

• $24.99 monthly
• $19.99 per month, billed every 3 months
• $16.99 per month, billed every 6 months

So, what are you waiting for? Make a pattern. Make a print. Make a difference.

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A new series of how-to videos aims to inspire crafters.

Sometimes its not about looking for the answer to a problem, it’s making sure you’re asking the right question. When it comes to the issues caused by our addiction to overconsumption – global warming, deforestation, pollution and animal extinction – a growing number of people are asking the surprisingly simple question, “What will you make today?”

Creativebug, a new series of how-to videos for DIY’ers, recently launched to inspire you. For $25 a month, subscribers have unlimited access to a continuously updated library of creative workshops in knitting, crochet, sewing, jewelry, entertaining, home decorating and kids crafts.

So, what are you waiting for? Make a pattern. Make a print. Make a difference.

The site features some of the country’s biggest talents, including Debbie Stoller, Stitch ‘n Bitch, Heather Ross, Weekend Sewing, Christine Schmidt, Print Workshop and EcoSalon favorite, Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin.

Natalie Chanin’s workshops premiered this week.

This is not your average YouTube type tutorial. Creativebug’s state of the art audio and video production quality, short video segments and entertaining presentation make the videos accessible to artists of all skill levels.

“We want everyone to have access to world‐class instructors regardless of where they live and to learn when it’s convenient for them,” says Jeanne Lewis, Founder and CEO of Creativebug. “We believe everyone has a creative side and we offer an affordable and accessible way to learn new skills.”

The empowering mantras of the crafter, “Do it yourself,” “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” might just be the best way to achieving sustainability. The joy of creating things that have meaning to us, these are the things we’ll want to keep.

Like what you see? Stay tuned. We’ll be featuring one of Creativebug’s how-to videos weekly on a new series here on EcoSalon.

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