I do it myself - Giovanna Olivieri

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This book is a real mini encyclopedia of recovery and reuse. Cleaning products, food, furniture, gifts and toys for children can be self-produced in the name of saving money and saving environmental resources.

The author has rigorously tested all the suggestions she offers. Thus we discover that vinegar and bicarbonate are sufficient to keep a clean and healthy home, not contaminated by expensive and often harmful cleaning products for health. Enthusiasm and patience are the ingredients for growing strictly organic vegetables and fruit, as well as a small chicken coop for family use.

With a little creativity, paper is transformed into original decorations and gifts, and discarded clothing becomes resistant backpacks and puppets for the little ones.

There is no shortage of suggestions for more demanding jobs : used wood is converted into a cupboard, a coat hanger or a shoe rack, and even painting and tiling will seem like operations within everyone's reach. The children are the protagonists of the final chapter: together with them we will cook, draw and invent toys with recycled materials.

A practical guide that not only teaches the art of making, but also how to rediscover the pleasure of taking care of yourself and the environment , and of time spent creating together with the little ones.