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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Monday Crafts: Christmas branch with pine cones, felt and recycled ribbons
December 7, 2009 – 8:18 am | 4 Comments
Monday Crafts: Christmas branch with pine cones, felt and recycled ribbons

Today’s craft is made completely out of recycled ribbon from presents, left over felt (from our advent calendar and Christmas stocking) and from things that we found in the pinewoods. Our Christmas branch is …

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Kid Made Modern by Todd Oldham, modern inspired crafts for kids
December 3, 2009 – 4:29 am | 2 Comments
Kid Made Modern by Todd Oldham, modern inspired crafts for kids

I love crafts and I love books so when I was contacted by Ammo Books for a review of the new crafts book Kid Made Modern by artist Todd Oldham I couldn’t wait to receive …

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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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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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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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Monday Craft: how to use old fabric and socks to make new things
October 12, 2009 – 3:01 am | One Comment
Monday Craft: how to use old fabric and socks to make new things

We like crafts at our house, so yesterday my son and I made a little cushion out of an old shirt. It was very easy and the end result was better than I expected. I …

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Crayon recycling craft
July 24, 2009 – 3:12 am | No Comment
Crayon recycling craft

While I was having a good browse around Instructables I came across a fantastic recycle craft project to do with kids this summer, one that not only is fun but will eliminate all those broken …

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