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PostPosted: Sat 13:26, 27 Nov 2010    Post subject: Hermes Birkin 35CM Togo Leather Tote Bag Ivory BS3

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1.Knit your own natural, hand-dyed luxurious silk scarves and silk shawls as birthday gifts and holiday gifts! Include a recycled paper card letting your special someone know that their gift was hand-knit and hand-dyed using natural dyes made with love from your very own garden or local farmer's market!
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5.Add some passion to your bedroom curtains with pomegranate, beet or mangosteen. You can even mix a little indigo in with any one of the above to create some purple passion!
6.Transform a stained white or pastel tablecloth into something beautiful again! Choose a dark-colored natural dye made from indigo, walnut hulls, pomegranate, beet or mangosteen so your next stains won't be as visible!
7.Get creative in your art space at home and at work. Make natural dyes for use in fabric art, dyeing canvas, batik art and whatever else inspires you. The possibilities are endless!
8.Go Green in the classroom! Take your class on a field trip to the local botanical garden, farmer's market or nursery and select your plants for natural dyeing. Prepare natural dyes together as a class, bottle them up and use them to make safe,Hermes Birkin 35CM Togo Leather Bag Black BS40-Bluck, environmentally friendly arts & crafts projects and holiday gifts.
9.Get creative with your kids over summer vacation! Make your own natural dyes as a family and use them to make cool, tie-dye t-shirts that are colorful, safe and environmentally friendly!
10.Design your eco-friendly clothes or accessories line! Buy undyed organic cotton, hemp or bamboo fabric and dye them with your own natural dyes. You can even reuse patches of old fabric and dye it with a complimentary color, creating a textured, patchwork look to your design.
Aurora Silk has excellent step-by-step instructions on how to dye natural yarn and textiles with homemade natural dyes:
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