Sustainable blog of the week: My Make Do and Mend Year

Jen Gale on the inspiration and challenges behind her mission to repair and create rather than buy new for 12 months

What inspired you to start writing My Make Do and Mend Year?

I remember reading an article in a magazine about Suzy Prince, who went on a second-hand safari in May 2012, and I thought about doing a similar thing. It was a bit of a lightbulb moment and I wondered if we could do it as a family. My eldest, William, was three years old at the time and as toddlers do, he was always nagging us for new things so I wanted to see if we could counter that a little bit.