Rainbow Life Blog

  Start by designing your house with a pen. The great thing about this craft is that you don’t need to be an artist. They are haunted houses, so crooked windows make it look more authentic.  Take scissors and cut out your design. Paint with black paint, or any colour you desire. Go careful...

Easy DIY Yarn Ghosts - Plastic Free Halloween is only around the corner, but it can filled with a lot of one time use plastic. Here is how you can make plastic free, zero waste halloween decorations in only 10 minutes. These cute yarn ghosts require minimal materials, and can be great to do alone, with...

Following on from Part 1 here are few clever Upcycling Ideas: Tin Cans: We all know about the abundance of tin cans in our recycling bins and there are many things you can do with tin cans. How about decoupaging a can with wallpaper as a storage container for all your bits and bobs?...

Upcycling And Recycling: What’s The Difference? The difference between upcycling and recycling is that the latter takes materials like paper, metal, plastic, or glass and breaks them down by pulping or melting etc and then remoulds the raw material into a new product. A good example is taking plastic recovered from the ocean and...

Recently in the news there has been chatter about a circular versus a linear economy. What is the difference? Which is better? How do we go about supporting such things? The short answer is: if we as individuals, societies, as the global community want a cleaner, greener future we need to change from a...

Way back when, longer than I care to admit, I was invited to a rather posh do: a “grand ball” no less. Being a Uni student with barely two pennies to rub together, I had no money to buy a ball gown. Meanwhile some of my fellow students were dolling themselves up in all manner of Taffeta and Brocade.   I asked my flatmate, Lou, for inspiration.   ‘Hey,...

There is a lot of buzz about this summer's hottest new must-have for your next trip to the beach: Beach Powder and Beach Powder Shimmer.  Like many people we first saw this product on Dragon's Den. Two Dragon's bought in and gave the founder and inventor of Beach Powder, Stephanie Kelsey, exactly what she was...