Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
September 11, 2014 – 5:55 am | No Comment

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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How to decorate Easter eggs with tissue paper
March 18, 2014 – 3:51 am | No Comment
How to decorate Easter eggs with tissue paper

This year instead of decorating more eggs for Easter I will put out last year’s but I made a pretty new box to keep them on display. I decorated the box with tissue paper, …

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Easy to make shamrock needle cushion
March 14, 2014 – 7:54 am | 3 Comments
Easy to make shamrock needle cushion

Every year I mean to sew more, but unfortunately my needle skills are still very basic. I do own needles (who doesn’t?) and I can do basic stitching, but that’s about it. Yesterday I …

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Rainbow decorated bottle
March 10, 2014 – 2:34 am | 2 Comments
Rainbow decorated bottle

Lately I have been collecting glass bottles because I like to decorate them and turn them into pretty vases. This week I would like to share this rainbow bottle I made for St Patrick’s …

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Upcycle project: coffee capsule container
February 20, 2014 – 3:47 am | No Comment
Upcycle project: coffee capsule container

We received a wonderful Nespresso machine for Christmas and since then we only drink Nespresso coffee. It is so much better than regular espresso. The only downside is that you can must buy it …

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Kids artwork upcycle
February 12, 2014 – 10:37 am | No Comment
Kids artwork upcycle

It seemed only yesterday that I was decorating my son’s bedroom with cars drawings, owls and all those cute things that young boys like. We already made some changes to his bedroom last year …

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Heart decorated glass jars for Valentine’s Day
February 3, 2014 – 10:04 am | 2 Comments
Heart decorated glass jars for Valentine’s Day

I love decorating jars and glass bottles. I have a lot of vases and lanterns, which I decorated with decoupage paper. For Valentine’s day I have a selection of jars and a bottle, which …

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Valentine paper patterns
January 26, 2014 – 7:24 am | No Comment
Valentine paper patterns

  Lately I have been learning about making shapes in Photoshop, these basic patterns are the result of mixing shapes with the custom shape tool and the application of a few filters over the finished …

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Origami hearts
January 24, 2014 – 7:53 am | No Comment
Origami hearts

We are crazy about origami lately, though we are not experts we are starting to follow instructions correctly. These are our heart origami. To make these you need proper origami paper with different coloured sides. …

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How to turn a carton case into a denim handbag
January 22, 2014 – 5:58 am | No Comment
How to turn a carton case into a denim handbag

This little handbag is my latest upcycle project. It was the box for a present I received for Christmas containing beauty products, one of those that opens up into a flat piece of cardboard. I …

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E is for elephant: how to make an elephant out of magazine pages
January 8, 2014 – 4:32 am | No Comment
E is for elephant: how to make an elephant out of magazine pages

  I am very proud of this little elephant made entirely out of magazine pages. All you need is lots of glossy paper (though newspaper works just fine, but it is less colourful), vinyl …

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DIY Christmas cards
December 13, 2013 – 8:01 am | No Comment
DIY Christmas cards

This year I made some very simple Christmas cards with decorative tape and thick paper. I bought quite a few rolls of decorative tape at the Barcelona Crafts fair earlier this month and I …

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Christmas garland
December 11, 2013 – 9:46 am | No Comment
Christmas garland

To use up the last of the pinecones we picked during a Sunday afternoon stroll in the local pinewoods, we made a simple garland with varnished pinecones attached to a string with intermittent cardboard …

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