3 Zero Waste DIY/Craft Projects 

Hello my lovely friends ❤️ Sending you all loads of love from Ireland. I hope you like the DIY video as much as I liked making 😊🍄🧚‍♀️💕

The steel wool and vinegar stain is brilliant.

If you use apple cider vinegar instead of white vinegar with the steel wool, it makes it a pretty grey color.

"if you have a box full of wool that's not being used" i'm a knitter, literally the amount you called too small for anything is perfect for lots of things! yarn never goes to waste for me

Another suggestion is to make sponges 🧽 . You have made sponges in a previous video, but this one is slightly different. You can use up all the little threads and very small scraps. The more the merrier. I used an old pair of jeans and used up bathroom towels, cut up to squares, rectangles or what ever shape in a sponges size (you choose according to the amount of textile you have left as long as they are both the same size) you sew them wrong sides together leave a small gap to flip it inside out and then you just stuff it with all those small pieces of scraps, threads and bits of textile that would otherwise go in the bin or compost and to finish, just sew the hole closed 😉👍🏻

Lovely ideas for DIY projects. I have been using some of my scraps for making masks for donation and for my family as we now advised to use them whenever we are out in public. I also show my students how to make pompoms the same way, that way when they are home and in need of a craft, it’s easy to simply use your fingers and some yarn. I do like the idea of the natural stain, though I’m betting that the smell is not very pleasant-imagining a mixture of rust and vinegar-not a happy place for my nose! I also wanted to thank you for the additional soundscape videos this week. They are a lovely break when one is needed, although the birds have been very busy here in Northern California where spring arrived weeks ago. Now it is warm enough to open the windows pretty much every day to listen to them sing and to smell the orange blossoms right outside my kitchen window-things I am able to enjoy much more now that I am home. I do have to say that I miss my work environment too, our Waldorf school is on 22 acres on the banks of the American River. We also have a farm with a couple of acres of gardens and animals. It is truly an oasis and I miss coming down the hill every day to see the beauty that I am so lucky to work in. I look forward to the time when the land will ring with the voices of the children again as they play and learn, and we can come together to do our work. Be well, sending greetings and best wishes from the west coast of N America.

Such simple projects but so satisfying and useful. My cat will love the Pompoms. Yes please more craft videos! Stay well as well Niamh. You feel like a friend and we’ve never met.

Those pom poms are adorable. Takes me back to my childhood. Lovely.

Really lovely! Sometimes videos on remaking things about the house come out looking a little...well...tacky. Your's turned out looking quite classy, even the pom poms! Its pretty challenging making a pom pom look classy. Grin.

The hair scrunchies were awesome! I'd completely forgotten about it, but I used to make hair bands out of old socks with my grandma. They were never really very good though because there was no elastic but i loved decorating them.

Nice projects, but you definitely had enough wool to knit projects, like a baby bonnet, booties etc. I did like the pompon project for kids to try! Fun

Happy Easter! Yes, please... more crafts, more diys, more trash to treasure. If you've never seen the homemade pumpkin, you'd love it. A large square or circle of fabric, lay it flat. Put a pile of polyfil on it. Make a hole in the middle of it. Pull the fabric up and into the hole. Shove a stick down into it. Glue the fabric to the stick or take jute and wrap it around the pumpkin, securing the stick in place. Keep safe and be well.

Well done!! Really neat to see the different ways to make and use stuff, that's lying around the house. I for one would love to see more shows like this from you. Thanks for sharing!! By the way...I lived in County Kerry Ireland for a year, many years ago. Ireland is such a magically beautiful place. I miss it dearly. Though, watching your video enables me to feel a bit of that connection again. Thank you for all the work you do. I love (and remember well) that lyrical Irish accent that I use to encounter when I lived there; hearing it always made my day. Yours is lovely, as well. :)

Yes, please, more joyful and peaceful DIY projects. Cheers, Ardith

You are the most lovely human to ever have lived. Thank you for being wonderful

Okay, bravo on using a traditional saw. I'm too intimidated by power-saws so I chose to use a hand-saw for a project and wow... all that physical labor and time for a shoddy edge that needed to be touched up by a power saw anyway 😂

I used to make those pompoms all the time in elementary school, very nostalgic 😊 Will definitely have to try out the scrunchie craft for myself though!

Every time you upload another video my day gets a little bit better, especially in times like these! Thank you for your content ❤️

Funny how fast your videos/ voice relaxes me! You are like therapy! No you are my therapy! Thank you for that so much!

Thank you for sharing your DIYS. It is amazing what you can do with things just lying around your home. I'm never heard of steelwool and vinegar turning into a stain. cool idea.💚

I do like this kind of thing! I find myself doing things of this nature and I love seeing others do the same! Thank you for the video and have a wonderful week.

Good morning- thanks for sharing your diy's. I appreciate all of your videos, and yes please more DIY's. There is a saying: use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. That has become my new mantra in living a simple and simply peaceful life. Much love to all ❤️🌷

I am alright, Busy doing home chores, reading books, keeping in touch with my parents as I have not seen them since long. I keep telling myself, take this lockdown as an opportunity to turn more inward and be a better person. But really don't know why, the moment I heard your voice, tears rolled down. Your voice is like a hug, in these difficult times. 💜

Love the shelves. They would look really nice on my stone walls. Im doing a big needlepoint cat pillow at the moment. I sit on the balcony when the sun is warm , listen to music and loose myself in the rhythm of the stitches . Love from Peru

I just love you so much. You make me believe with every video of yours that life is what you make it. Watching your videos is the best part of my week. Take care dearest :)

Thank you so much for your DIY projects. I enjoy using what’s at hand & making gifts. Your lovely channel is heavenly right now to us “across the pond”. Love to you & yours!

The shelves look amazing! For something so simple it really turned out wonderfully. I love ideas like that, it gets us thinking "out of the box". I love all your videos by the way. Sometimes they inspire me to conserve, recycle, redecorate, exercise, or just simply relax! Because that's important too! Thanks for sharing your tips!

I've just happened to come across your wee channel today. I'm a Belfast girl living in Scotland. What a wonderful channel ❤️. Thank you 😊.

Love the Pom Pom craft. More DIY videos please 💕🔨🧶

The lavender scrunchie is a lovely idea. Happy Easter :)

Wow! I love your simple wooden shelves, Niamh...! They looked so easy to make! I have always wanted to do a bit of carpentry but been scared to take anything up-but seeing how easy you made it seen and how beautiful the final outcome is-Im going to try this! thank you!

Those shelves are beautiful and I love the stain - such a simple idea, but so effective and it really brings the grain out in the wood.

I've begun working with polymer clay a lot lately... which has left me with a lot of little leftover bits & slivers that I didn't want to throw away but didn't know what to do with. In my area, liquid hand soap has become extremely hard to find (yes, I know I should be making my own, I'm working on it! LOL) but I have a lot of bar soap put away; when the liquid soap in one bathroom ran out, I took a bunch of the little bits of polymer clay & rolled them into long thing ropes, then twisted different-colored ropes around each other, rolled those out smooth, and began folding them back & forth on each other like the old "Indian baskets" I remembered from grade school. Using a box from a bar of soap as my ruler/template, I made a "plate" and then built up an edge around it with more ropes of clay, baked it in the oven, and gave it a couple of light coats of polyurethane. Voila, a (not beautiful) but more-than-good-enough soap dish! (Next time I'll make the sides a bit higher, on this version they're only about 1/8 of an inch high and the soap tends to escape.) I also made a small bowl for spare change using the same method, and that now sits happily by the front door... and I still have a plastic sandwich bag full of clay scraps, but now I know I can use them for something constructive!

Love your DIY's. Especially the little shelves,and how you dyed them!

I'd love more DIY's!! Thinking about making the shelves for more simple storage, along with some little garden boxes. You've really been inspiring to me, and I hope to be more like you in how I view the world.

I recomend sandboard 220, is the best,, the bottom in the scrunchie is so simple but elegant ..thank you for the idea, i collect strange bottoms..I'll make mine today ♡

Clicked for the DIY in the title, subbed for the aesthetic & the accent 💚

What a great idea to put herbs in the scrunchy!

So beautiful! The scrunchies look so soft and nice! I love the lavender idea. Thank you :)

I enjoyed these. I think I'll try that pom-pom idea because I have a lot of wool doing nothing. Yes please, make some more zero waste craft videos. That would be lovely. Take care and stay healthy. xx

Diy a’ la Niamh...perfection! 😍 Will watch again and again. Maybe a “Niamh’s diys” book? 😉 x

Love it!! More please! And Happy Easter!

LOVED this video! I enjoy figuring out how to use what is on hand. I just made macramé plant hanger for a plant my cat would not leave alone. I looked around the house & had some twine from the Dollar Store so that’s what I used. It looks beautiful! Your items were great looking too! Would love more videos like this one:)

I love this! Especially the scunchie DIY like you said, perfect for gifts! More please!!

You live in a very beautiful country. Hope to visit when this is over. I've started today my movie journaling. Might do some videos about it. Your videos are very calming. Thanks.

I use flaxseed oil (I have always an old little bottle) for my wooden furniture. It is wonderful. Take care 🌷🌷🌷

Yes please! More repurposed crafty projects 😊

Reduce, reuse and recycle, very much enjoyed, thank you very much!💕💕💕

Thank you so much for these lovely DIY ideas! You are the best and so are your videos :) Yes if you can please make more videos like this. Wishing you a Happy Easter from Greece!

Love your little DIY's from things you have lying around/left over scraps etc 👍💖

I especially love the homemade scrunchies! I wish I thought of it myself 👍

Good morning Fairyland! Creative as always😊 Happy Easter to you, hope you and yours are well and staying safe.

Definitely going to have ago at the little shelves and the homemade stain. Love your channel, it’s my Sunday treat.

Warm loving hugs from Vermont!

I love all the things you do but yes I would love more craft ideas

So fun! Love making things out of what I have lying around, especially things that can be recycled and repurposed. Your projects were adorable! I made little twig crosses for Easter and used leftover string and ribbons to tie them in the center. I enjoy your crafts...I have some material I want to use to make washable makeup pads like you did on another video, and going to try the coffee scrub too. I love your resourcefulness! Thanks so much! 😊

A love poem poem that you put on your headboard of your bed is really pretty and you're very creative and you like to stuff your hands I like to do that too

Definitely like the crafts! I like the shelves and pom poms best. Good to know about the natural stain!

Would love to see more of these DIY videos! So fun to get creative.

I really love the pompom wall hanging!!

Absolutely love the shelves, I am inspired to make a couple myself! Love the pompom mobile too!

Lovely. I'm using leftover odd balls of wall that I had been collecting from op shops to make a simple crochet shawl for winter evenings

Beautiful! Diy is such a great way to spend your time with. It gets you out of your head. Doing instead of overthinking 💚

Lovely, thank you. Happy Easter. Xx

These are so lovely and inspiring! I hope to become even just a fraction of how motivated and hard working you are! Thank you!

Love this. Yes more of this please. Love being crafty and there were great 🥰

One of my favorite parts of my Sunday morning each week! :-) I liked this DIY video--my favorite part was the pom pom mobile. Thank you for posting! :)

Your videos are addictive . I look forward to them every sunday

Lovely! I think I'll make some pom-pop garland to decorate the house for my son's 10th birthday and surprise him! Just an extra something festive since we don't use balloons :)

Would love to see more such simple DIYs on the channel!! 👌🏼👌🏼

I'd definitely love to see more DIY ideas! Thanks Niamh! Happy Easter xx

Yes! Upcycling and simple DIY, perfect!

can i ask if the vinegar smells? I use coffee grounds soaked in water for as many days as i need for the depth of colour required and it smells divine.

Simply lovely. I’m going to make all of them ! Thank you . Be well and take good care.

Yes please do more of these. I love them. Maybe a little bit more slower to show people like myself who are craft challenged.

Thank you for sharing! I always enjoy your videos. Love it. ❤️❤️❤️

Hi Please make some more videos like this ! I felt so inspired after I watched you cannot even imagine !!! Life changing Thank you -your channel is amazing

Beautiful beautiful video! I love your channel. 💕 Quick tip: I would recommend if anyone is making the shelves this way to only place extremely light items on them (def nothing with sentiment value), and to not make the cubes much bigger than this. Otherwise, it would be better to use an anchor, bracket, or support of some kind, cuz depending on what you put on the shelves, the weight/size of the wood, etc. it can fall out of the wall (or lose its center balance, slide and swing on the nail, breaking all the lovely items that were on them.) It'd be a shame to lose what may be precious, fragile, delicate items and family heirlooms for some, placed on those shelves. 🖤

Love the natural paint great idea thank you xxx

More craft/DIY videos please! :)

Thank you for another great video, with excellent DIY ideas! I think I have been too efficient with my minimalism goals, by giving away all my fabric and yarn scraps...now I'm bored and want to make your cute projects!

Of course! This kind of videos are lovely too! 😚

DIY is really great way to spend time! I'm definitely gonna try that pom-pom wall hanger because it looks super pretty💚😍

I love this! Please make more DIY project videos. This is perfect for the upcoming holidays.

Love the video, please show more crafting. I craft as often as I can and hate to throw things away preferring to upcycle/recycle wherever possible too.

Happy Easter. I hope you can walk down to that lovely beach. Wish I could xxx

I loved all those ideas ! the pom pom mobile was very stylish too !

What creative ideas. Yes, please continue to share these gems with us.

Love the Pom Pom mobile💕. ..will definitely be making one of those xx

Loooooooved the pom pom idea!!!

Love the stain idea. That’s really smart. Those little shelves are perfect. My bathroom is tiny. Thank you so much 😊

ooo I love that wall hanging! Looks fabulous, thanks for the idea!

Thanks for these ideas! I am a huge fan of making things out of what I already have, and am always looking for new ideas. I don’t have the patience to do complicated projects, so these simple ideas are perfect!

Loved these crafts! They all turned out so well especially the pom pom wall decor!

This is perfect! I have loads of wool I've been wanting to use up for so long but have just had no inspiration. Thank you!

Love it! I also has been busy using what I have in the house making diys. I like to sew, so I’ve been making pillow covers. I wish I could show you on here. Happy Sunday!

Yes, definitely more diy crafts! Loved today’s! Thank you!

The pompoms look soooo pretty! Thanks for sharing that 🌹

I've never ever seen a scrunchie DIY where you put lavender in I love it and want to try making it ASAP

Glad to see DYS ideas on Easter. Have a wonderful Sunday .