I hate throwing things away. I keep all kinds of bits and pieces and I'm scared of becoming a hoarder. I have huge collections of light bulbs, bottle caps, corks, the plastic fish that soya sauce comes in, envelopes and magazines. Finally, there's a website to help recycle these hoarded treasures.

How Can I Recycle This? is a website where readers write in to ask for suggestions on recycling and reusing items they have acquired, everything from milk cartons to USB memory sticks, and the members of the site give their ideas, tips and suggestions for repurposing the items.

Definitely worth checking out if you have a cupboard full of knick-knacks. Nothing but good green fun!

I remember seeing a bookcase where the books were arranged by colour a few months ago and wishing that I had enough space for a bookcase, so that I could do the same with my mountains of books. I compensated by colour arranging all my CDs and DVDs in their cabinets and it really does make everything look pretty and like a fairytale. One day, I'll have a huge, colour coordinated library, where it's impossible to find a book unless you know it's colour but everything looks so so pretty.

For now, I'll just oogle over the bookcases of people that have already done so, on Flickr's Rainbow Of Books photo pool.

It's obvious that I'm a big fan of Daleks from the Dalek Cake projects that I keep posting, so you can imagine how excited I was when I stumbled upon the Extermaknit! Dalek Knitting Pattern.

Now we can all have cuddly little Daleks taking over our homes.

Everyone from Craft Gossip to Craft Zine seems to be talking about the new craft tool, the Crop-A-Dile from We R Memory Keepers.

I was lucky enough to pick one up while on holiday in Canada and I've been using it for all kinds of projects since. The heavy-duty punch seems to be able to punch through almost anything and the Crop-A-Dile can even install snaps and grommets.

Julia Stanton has written a great review for it on her blog, so check it out and find out if this is the tool for you.

With Halloween just around the corner, have you started thinking about your costume yet? If you're in need of some inspiration there are some great groups on Flickr, where members have posted photos of their Halloween costumes.

Here are a few to check out:

Homemade Halloween Costumes

Flickr Halloween Costumes

Techie Halloween Costumes.

We've got a great new competition in the Fashion Issue of Snippets to win a copy of Nina Garcia's new book The Little Black Book Of Style. To be in with a chance of winning, share your best fashion tip with us. We've got three copies of the book to give away, so check out the competition now!

The Fashion Issue of Snippets is now online for your reading pleasure.

Featuring an interview with electro-ladies Chicks On Speed, work from various fashion designers, artists and photographers, Street Fashion - a look at the wardrobes of fashionistas from around the globe, a competition to win Nina Garcia's new book 'The Little Black Book Of Style', Bla Bla Hospital curing the fashion sick, Beauty Tips from PinUp Girl Poppy Von Tarte and much much more..

Check it out now!

The Music Issue of Snippets is now online. Featuring an interview with Gary Lightbody from the band Snow Patrol, festival and gig tips from The View's sidekicks, Wasted Little DJs, music tips from people who think they know better, memoirs of a chick drummer, a bangle competition and much much more. Head over to Snippets now to check it out.

Just a quick note to remind you to enter the Garage Sale America Competition to win a copy of the book. Basically, send in photographs of your artwork or creations that come under the theme of garage sale. Check the competition out in the latest issue of Snippets.

Hey crafties,

We're doing a feature called "What you should be listening to and why" for the Music Issue of Snippets. Basically, we need you to suggests bands to listen to with your reasons why.

Here's are some examples to get your creative juices flowing:

"Bat For Lashes because she's the new Bjork, The Silversun Pickups because they are grunge rock with pop sensibilities, Mark Ronson because it's the summer soundtrack, The Smashing Pumpkins because it's the return of the greats of rock and UNKLE because it's what happens when a DJ goes to the dessert for three months and comes back with a rock album." - Graham Neale

"LCD Soundsystem; The Cribs; the Twilight Sad; Willy Mason; Yo Majesty; The Shins; Patrick Wolf; Modest Mouse; Low; Klaxons; Biffy Clyro have all had singles and/or albums out that have blown me away this year." - Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol

Send your tips to writers (at) cutoutandkeep.net.

Thanks,

Cat xox