I am very excited about the transformation of this used envelope into a Christmas gift carrier. To make this Christmas gift pouch you need a used bubble envelope, Christmas wrapping paper cuttings, glue, scissors, a …

Every year we make new Christmas decorations to hang around the house. This year we made some hanging stars cut out of discarded cardboard boxes, which we painted silver on one side and gold on …

Meet the loo roll Father Christmas and his reindeer with Rudolph leading the pack. This is a very quick craft that we intend to use for our festive animation series. To make the reindeer you …

These unusual Nativities in the picture are our picks from the Etsy collection. The Christmas Nativity blocks are great for kids to handle and play with. The 14 pieces have been sanded, antiqued and finished …

Crafting with junk is one of my favourite ways to get creative and when it comes to recycling I am partial to magazine pages. In the past we made coasters, table mats and napkin rings. …

Our Monday craft this week is a hanging Christmas decoration made of very thin strips of bolster wood consisting of a star, a ball and two pinecones tied in a bow. I wanted something simple …

When Only Dads, a support website for single dads was approached to decorate a large Christmas tree in the Dartington Hall Trust, Bob Greig, the single father behind this great organization came up with the …

The theme for this month’s Get Crafty is white. To some people white might be plain, but to a lot of us white is stylish and beautiful that’s why we made these lovely Christmas cards. …

At the weekend we have been busy making our Nativity with recycled items and air dry clay. It is a little early, but we’ll be away for a week at the beginning of December so …

We have been very busy at the weekend working on ideas for our Christmas crafts and setting a few of them in motion. We will make our own nativity using a variety of materials, from …

The last post in the Christmas craft series focuses on Christmas cards. We made a few different types out of thick red paper, which we decorated with a mix of materials including magazine paper, glitter …

These pictures were taken by my 6 year old son during an early evening stroll in Alghero were we live. He gets bored wandering around the shops so we let him take photos to stop …