I have so many pinecones this year that I can just make lots of different decorations. Today I have a very simple yet effective decoration, which is fun to make with kids as it …

Last week I was inspired by the lovely Christmas Tin Can Lanterns I saw on Thinly Spread blog to make some of my own. I have been collecting tins for sometime so all I …

For those of you who don’t know, we have recently moved to a place just outside Barcelona. It’s a lovely place on the coast and we happen to live in an area called La …

I am very proud of our advent calendar this year, which I made with my favourite recycling material: the hugely versatile magazine pages. I made 24 cones using the magazine pages, I printed some …

I made a selection of Halloween lollipops to treat the kids who will knock on the door this evening. They are simple Chupa Chups dressed up as pumpkins, bats and ghosts.   To …

Today is Halloween and this year we have a real pumpkin for the first time. When we lived in Sardinia it was near to impossible to get a pumpkin so we used our imagination …

As usual this Christmas we have made our own Christmas cards. My cards are simple, just white card and some amazing glitter liners I bought recently to make decorations on fabric and that work brilliantly …

I am very proud to present these festive gnomes that in a previous life used to be Yakult bottles. They are not just gnomes without a cause, they are festive bowling pins dressed up as …

Today I would like to share a miniature tridimensional Christmas tree I make with the cardboard from a shoebox, green tissue paper, glue and glitter. 1. Cut two identical tree shapes out of cardboard 2. …

After the bottle bottoms craft, it is the turn of the bottle tops, which we couldn’t possibly discard. Initially I was going to pile them up and make a miniature Christmas tree, but when I …

The beauty of blogging is to discover traditions that you wouldn’t normally know about. Last week while I was sharing one of my Christmas crafts over at Thinly Spread I encountered a Christmas tradition that …

This year I am not going to buy any Christmas decorations but I will make new ones myself using recycled objects as prime material. The first ornaments are these sparkly snowflakes made out of plastic …