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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Christmas Crafts: Personalised Stocking
November 30, 2009 – 4:29 am | 11 Comments
Christmas Crafts: Personalised Stocking

This weekend we have been busy making a personalized Xmas stocking. Although a little stitching was involved to make the stocking itself, the fun part was all done with glue and glitter so my son …

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Christmas Crafts: Advent Calendar part 2
November 23, 2009 – 4:37 am | One Comment
Christmas Crafts: Advent Calendar part 2

For the second part of the advent calendar crafts edition we have been very laborious and I am very proud to present our very own hanging advent calendar with 24 pockets to …

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Christmas Crafts: Advent Calendar part 1
November 16, 2009 – 1:40 am | No Comment
Christmas Crafts: Advent Calendar part 1

This week and next week’s crafts will focus on advent calendars. Advent calendars are often associated with sweets and chocolate, but they don’t need to be. They can be creative projects to make the countdown …

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A thrifty Christmas gift that will last all year round
November 11, 2009 – 6:59 am | 4 Comments
A thrifty Christmas gift that will last all year round

Our house is covered with drawings.  The first point of display of a new drawing is always the fridge; thankfully we have a large two-door fridge, but even so the space ran out a  long …

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Christmas crafts: hanging paper mobile
November 9, 2009 – 2:39 am | 5 Comments
Christmas crafts: hanging paper mobile

Christmas decorations are everywhere in the outside world, although it might be a little early to put up a tree in your lounge it doesn’t mean you cannot get things started. If in the past …

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Art material for perfect Christmas crafts
November 4, 2009 – 8:17 am | No Comment
Art material for perfect Christmas crafts

With Halloween over and dusted, Christmas lights are popping up everywhere with shop owners dying to get us into Christmas mood, the sooner we do the sooner we start spending right? It won’t be long …

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Build, create and have fun with Happy Mais, the ecological bricks
November 2, 2009 – 5:17 am | 2 Comments
Build, create and have fun with Happy Mais, the ecological bricks

I get so excited when I find new toys that are educational, stimulating and safe for the kids as well as  the planet, environment friendly, produced within a fair working environment and distributed in total …

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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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Toy skips make funky storage
October 15, 2009 – 9:52 am | One Comment
Toy skips make funky storage

I love this funky toy storage in the form of a skip that comes either standard or personalised with the name of the child. The personalised version is great when you have more than one …

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