Articles by Mariangela Garau
Perfect for 6 to 12 year olds the Halloween Book of Fun by National Geographic is packed full of quizes, educational games, creative ideas to make your own costume and make up. …
Ever since I have discovered Zentangles I have been hooked. This Halloween Tangles is a doodle drawing to print and colour. Plenty of doodles to keep the kids busy for a while. Hope you …
Recently I have discovered the Zentangle method, an art form that uses structured patterns to make beautiful drawings. I have always liked to doodle unorganised patterns on a piece of paper, whenever I have …
Halloween is just over a month away so I had a look around for themed food ideas and these are my picks. Green Eyed Monster cupcakes found on Taste of Home and Ham and …
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 …
Here is another office organiser to add to our collection, this time I made a double organiser using two cereal boxes glued together. This is perfect to collect the mail in need of sorting …
This is a free book filled with colouring pages of alphabet letters and drawings based on the letters of the ABC. I hope you enjoy it. Click on the image to download the PDF. …
These bookmarks are really easy to make. All you need is popsicle sticks and colour pens. They look good in party bags. An even better idea is to put a couple already made in …
I like keeping little mementos of special days out and holidays, maps, theatre tickets, sports events and anything that is a memory of a special moment in our life. I have not yet entered …
At the week-end my son turned eleven and to celebrate we went to PortAventura, a wonderful theme park just an hour away from Barcelona. We stayed overnight at the Gold River, one of the …
I have been talking about buying a sewing machine for a longtime, but my sewing limits always stopped me. Inspired by the many crafty projects that require a basic sewing skills, after spending some …
It’s been a while since I made something out of cardboard, which is rather strange considering the amount of cardboard I keep in my basement waiting for a repurposed life. So here is a …