Making Roots 2026

The past 2 years, at least, have been really challenging for me. It's rarely all good or all bad. But sometimes it's really difficult.

Over this time, certain areas of life has taken a back seat. Homemade eco has been one aspect that I haven't had capacity for in a while for various reasons.

In the last few weeks, I have bought out the dusty ingredients basket. It's felt therapeutic to reacquaint myself with old friends, my bulk bicarb, lovely little wooden spoons for stirring up deodroants. I have started to remake things that for a few years now I have outsourced, like my deodorant. I have made things that I have been wanting to for years, like toilet cleaning 'bombs' and dishwasher tablets. It's lovely refinding a part of myself lost for a while.

This is an important part of sustainable living that I have spoken about before. Life ebbs and flows and your lifestyle is only sustainable if it is able to change too. Making my own essentials is a fun aspect of sustainable living for me, that puts me more in control of ingredients, who made it and what companies that I support. But it's been fine to deviate from that for a while, to rely on other options and let life do it's thing. It's of course handy to have an understanding of what other options there are, I was never 100% homemade or even close to that, so of course I have favourite products I could fall back to.

Within this time, I have also had parts of 'eco living' that are now habit and second nature that improve my life and I have continued without second thought. For example, using my reusable bags, stainless less water bottle, period knickers and many other zero waste ‘essentials’, I have continued to compost and actually added a new system in and my vegetable garden has grown. I have leant into those things that enrich me, those I was still adjusting to have waited.

I am excited to share more on the DIYs that I am reintroducing into my life and I will also share a bit more on suggestions for how to stay in the green zone when life is life-ing. I look forward to continuing my little cosy corner here, where there is no pressure, just trying our best and having ideas on how to make things better for ourselves and others.