Cardboard Boxes

ME: “What is this you wrote here: `dress form’?” LI’L DIVA: “It’s on this website.” (Clickty-clickty click.) ME: “It’s a mannequin. … That costs $199!” LI’L DIVA: “Yes! I’ll put my clothes on it so I can figure out what to wear to school.” ME: “You already have that in the deluxe two-piece model. It’s…

By Camille Styles, photography by Melanie Grizzel Entertaining a group of kids can be tricky, to say the least. Between the menu, the decor and the activities, things can get out of hand (and expensive) in the blink of an eye. This party concept simplifies the process by limiting all decor to projects…

TreeHugger spares no expense or our livers in our search to find the greenest packaging for wine. After reading Ruben Anderson s article in Tyee, where he said Do you really want to try to look your children in the eye and explain that they have to eat jellyfish gumbo because you couldn t resist that…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( — As part of the campus’ ongoing effort to become more “green, ” the University of California, Riverside Storehouse is teaming up with OfficeMax to decrease cardboard waste by delivering office supplies in reusable, heavy-duty cardboard boxes called “Boomerang Boxes.” OfficeMax introduced…

“I have too much Styrofoam.” That was the “problem” that a wine writer confessed to while introducing himself at a recent wine writers conference. There comes a point in the wine lovers’ evolution where getting wine from the local store just won’t suffice. We want a certain bottle, sometimes from the…

A transmogrification in process. The Transmogrifier is an invention of Calvin s that would turn one thing into another. Like most of his inventions, it was made originally from a cardboard box, though a later model was made using a water gun. Calvin used the transmogrifiers many times, turning himself…

I ve recently decided to get into accessorizing more, but instead of spending a lot of money on accessories, I wanted to see what I could make at home either cheaply or completely free, ideally using what I had in the house already. I had known for years about making beads out of magazine pages, but…

Turn an ordinary box into a cardboard Drop Box – a colour matching, shape, sorting, number and letter-learning homemade fine motor activity for toddlers! Of all the homemade toys and activities I’ve made over the years using common household items, this is my all-time favourite! One of the reasons I…