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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Educational activity books for Halloween
October 24, 2014 – 2:45 am | No Comment
Educational activity books for Halloween

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. …

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Halloween tangles
October 23, 2014 – 8:00 am | No Comment
Halloween tangles

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 …

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Zentangle Inspired pumpkins
October 7, 2014 – 6:11 am | No Comment
Zentangle Inspired pumpkins

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 …

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Halloween food ideas
September 24, 2014 – 3:16 am | No Comment
Halloween food ideas

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 …

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Lollipops dressed up for Halloween
October 31, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment
Lollipops dressed up for Halloween

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 …

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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2013 – 5:01 am | No Comment
Happy Halloween

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 …

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Pumpkin cushion and fabric dye
October 16, 2012 – 3:03 am | One Comment
Pumpkin cushion and fabric dye

I have mentioned before how hard t is to get real pumpkins here in Sardinia, so we just try our best to make alternative jack-o’-lanterns to maintain the Halloween spirit. Our fishbowl this year or …

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Easy Halloween crafts: how to turn a fish bowl into a jack-o’-lantern
September 27, 2012 – 12:52 am | 10 Comments
Easy Halloween crafts: how to turn a fish bowl into a jack-o’-lantern

Halloween is over a month away but we are already preparing for it. In fact I think the anticipation is part of the fun and certainly makes the occasion last longer. Unfortunately where we live …

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Halloween snakes and ladders
October 31, 2011 – 8:27 am | No Comment
Halloween snakes and ladders

Snakes and ladders is one of our favourite games so we often adapt it to special themes and Halloween seemed like the perfect occasion to slightly modify it. Our haunted snakes and ladders is very …

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Halloween crafts: Frankenstein lantern
October 25, 2011 – 3:44 am | 2 Comments
Halloween crafts: Frankenstein lantern

To complete our homemade set of Halloween lights this year we made a Frankenstein lantern to join the pumpkin and vampire from last year. Only this time instead of painting the jars we opted for …

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Halloween crafts: ghost puppets
October 17, 2011 – 5:14 am | 5 Comments
Halloween crafts: ghost puppets

This is probably the easiest craft we have ever done, yet it is so effective. All you need to make these ghosts are white paper bags, black marker and a pair of scissors. Draw the …

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Halloween crafts: how to turn a detergent container into a pumpkin
October 11, 2011 – 2:38 am | 2 Comments
Halloween crafts: how to turn a detergent container into a pumpkin

Pumpkins are not readily available where we are so this year we turned a washing powder container into our jack’ o’ lantern.  The process was fun and the skill necessary is definitely less much less …

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