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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Halloween crafts: glass jar lanterns
October 26, 2010 – 1:04 am | 5 Comments
Halloween crafts: glass jar lanterns

This week I bring you a craft for Halloween which is entirely my son’s from idea to completion. In true recycle style he made two lanterns using just glass jars, paint, crease paper and floating …

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Frankenstein and bat shaped cookies
October 19, 2010 – 1:24 pm | 6 Comments
Frankenstein and bat shaped cookies

After seeing so many spooky cakes and sweets we attempted to make our own this afternoon with marzipan, sugar and chocolate icing. We made cookies shaped like bats and Frankenstein. Ingredients 250g marzipan, …

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Monday Crafts: make your own goodie bags for Halloween
October 18, 2010 – 5:01 am | 5 Comments
Monday Crafts: make your own goodie bags for Halloween

  I am determined not to buy anything already made for Halloween this year so at the weekend we decorated some plain paper bags to fill with treats for our Halloween party. Inspired by …

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Monday Crafts: how to transform a beach bucket into a trick or treat container for Halloween
October 11, 2010 – 4:06 am | 4 Comments
Monday Crafts: how to transform a beach bucket into a trick or treat container for Halloween

In preparation for Halloween we have come up with an idea to reuse an old beach bucket by turning it into a trick or treat container to collect all the sweets and gifts. To transform …

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Paper Crafts:Halloween Collage with recycled materials
October 5, 2010 – 7:14 am | 3 Comments
Paper Crafts:Halloween Collage with recycled materials

Apologies to all of you lovely readers who expect to see a post about crafts on Monday. Well, we have been a little busy at the weekend so I bring you our crafty post on …

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Etsy Finds: Halloween
October 1, 2010 – 7:10 am | No Comment
Etsy Finds: Halloween

Etsy is one of my favourite places to go and look for ideas so with Halloween on the calendar this month I could not miss a good look around. These are my selections. The Boo …

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Monday Crafts: Halloween spiders made with recycled materials
September 20, 2010 – 1:55 pm | 7 Comments
Monday Crafts: Halloween spiders made with recycled materials

Halloween is around the corner so we have started our decorations with some homemade spiders. They are very easy to make and a lot of fun to decorate. To remain true to our recycle philosophy …

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Halloween blog party
October 28, 2009 – 3:14 am | One Comment
Halloween blog party

I have written about costumes, trick-or-treat bags and recycled decorations, but no Halloween selection would be complete without some food recipes so I have been riding the waves of the Internet and I landed at …

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Monday Crafts: Halloween decorations from recycled goods
October 26, 2009 – 6:38 am | No Comment
Monday Crafts: Halloween decorations from recycled goods

I have been looking around for crafts ideas for more Halloween decorations to add to the hanging bats we made last week and I found two very good projects. Both involve recycling, which makes them …

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Etsy find: printable original designs for party kits
October 22, 2009 – 2:29 am | One Comment
Etsy find: printable original designs for party kits

You don’t have to spend a fortune to have funky party decorations, you just buy the graphics and print it all yourself from High resolutions PDF files and have fun in the process. Party preparation …

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Monday crafts: Halloween decorations made of recycled tissue paper from shoe boxes
October 19, 2009 – 3:40 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: Halloween decorations made of recycled tissue paper from shoe boxes

With Halloween approaching yesterday we made some very easy bats decorations. It was a completely recycled craft as we used the tissue paper from shoe boxes. Yes, we went shopping for shoes on Saturday…in fact …

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Etsy finds: waiting for Halloween
October 8, 2009 – 2:09 am | No Comment
Etsy finds: waiting for Halloween

More favourite Halloween picks from Etsy: The first one is a handmade silly spider costume. Easy to wear as a child’s costume should be, the cape is made of felt which means it is also …

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