Madison Pollard Designs
How to Sustain Yourself During Winter ❄️
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono In my research for this blog, an article sprung up at me titled ‘How to Beat the Winter Blues’ that sat with me the wrong way. It didn’t strike me as very sustainable. By definition, sustainable is something that can be sustained over a long period of time. If we were to fight winter every year, the little energy we have during the colder months would not sustain us for very long. The...
Sustainably Sourcing Fabrics
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Sometimes you come across a service or a store that quite literally changes your life. It might be one little element of it, such as the products, the employees, or the general atmosphere. Or, if you’re really lucky, it’s a combination of all three, resulting in your happy place solidified right here on earth. I came across one such place, as the second Covid-19 wave hit Sydney in August 2020. What is this magical place? This is the humble Sewing Basket.
The Pros and Cons of Beeswax Wraps 🐝
With so many uses, it's hard to miss why beeswax is still a staple in many homes across the globe today: being used in beauty, health, art, and writing. While it's preserving properties have always been appreciated, in more recent years, beeswax has gained attention for use in the kitchen in the form of Beeswax Wraps.
Recycled Paper VS Virgin Paper: The Benefits of Recycled Paper
Paper. It's extremely useful, but did you know it's pretty interesting too? Probably not it's paper. Not something we really think about on a daily basis. However, there's so much more that goes into this handy dandy source of writing, painting and scribbling material than you would think as well as its impact on our environment. You read that right. PAPER IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT. And no, I don't just mean we are losing valuable trees in deforestation, I mean carbon emissions and global warming. Yeah think about that when you buy your next notebook. The Process Paper is created...
Madison Pollard Designs: Eco-Friendly Art Prints
Art which doesn’t cost the earth. As many artists who have expressed themselves before me, I am inspired by the ever-wondrous Mother Nature. Every colour, pattern or texture that you see in my art, has been drawn (literally and figuratively) from the natural world. The outdoors is where I most feel myself; a place where I can connect to my inner creative, find new inspiration and be reminded of my passion for art. I believe that being surrounded by nature is when I am at my truest self. For all that nature has done for me, the least being inspire my art, the most, being a...