Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
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To make this chicken door stop I used the template kindly offered by Bake and Sew. I adjusted the sizes in mine to make it a little larger by adding 4 cm on each …

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TP rolls Advent calendar

Submitted by on December 1, 2014 – 4:35 am2 Comments

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This is our advent calendar this year. I have started it a little late, but I managed to put it up yesterday, just in time for the first of the month. I set up to make individual parcels with TP rolls and it took a little longer than anticipated especially because I had to fit it in between other projects I have been working on.

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I painted the TP rolls, all 24 of them, with pastel colour paint and then I decorated them individually with wrapping paper scraps, string and Washi Tape. I used Washi tape to decorate the wooden pegs to attach each parcel to the string, which I then tied to the banisters.

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The little presents inside are a mixture of chocolates, gadgets and messages.

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