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: how to reuse and recycle old furniture
February 22, 2010 – 3:36 am | No Comment
Monday crafts: how to reuse and recycle old furniture

Our passion for crafts has made my son’s room eclectic to say the least. There is nothing I dislike more than a perfect kid’s room that looks like it has just come out of a …

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Monday crafts: paper flowers & letter holder
February 15, 2010 – 4:33 am | No Comment
Monday crafts: paper flowers & letter holder

It is carnival time in Italy, so between carnival parades and kids’ costume parties we’ve had very little time for our weekend crafts.  Today’s craft is not our latest work, but it is one of …

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Easy knitting tips
February 8, 2010 – 4:10 am | No Comment
Easy knitting tips

I have written about Panduro Hobby’s great craft materials before. Not only they have a good range of art supplies and crafts kits, they are also a great source of inspiration for new crafts. I …

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Monday Crafts: how to decorate a shelf with comics’ cuttings
February 1, 2010 – 7:19 am | No Comment
Monday Crafts: how to decorate a shelf with comics’ cuttings

If your child is an avid comics’ reader, then you are probably wondering what to do with all that precious paper piling up on the bookshelves. Well, I know one thing for sure comics or …

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Monday crafts: pegs and cardboard storage wheel
January 25, 2010 – 4:38 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: pegs and cardboard storage wheel

For our fourth and final post in the Todd Oldham’s kid Made Modern series we picked the storage wheel inspired by Ray and Charles Eames. This is a very enjoyable project especially because we used …

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Monday Crafts: old linen revamp with fabric printing fun
January 18, 2010 – 7:23 am | One Comment
Monday Crafts: old linen revamp with fabric printing fun

This is the third part of a four-post series about crafts inspired by Todd Oldham’s book, Kid Made Modern published by Ammo Books. The previous two posts featured a cork effect vase and wooden spoon …

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Monday Crafts: Spoon Friends
January 11, 2010 – 5:29 am | No Comment
Monday Crafts: Spoon Friends

This is the second in a 4-post series about crafts inspired by Todd Oldham’s book, Kid Made Modern published by Ammo Books. If you missed last week’s post, click on the link to see the …

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Monday Crafts: The Cork Jar
January 4, 2010 – 7:20 am | 2 Comments
Monday Crafts: The Cork Jar

This is the first of the 4-post series inspired by the Todd Oldham’s Kid Made Modern, a great book packed with excellent crafts projects, which I featured last month.  I was particularly impressed with the …

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Christmas Crafts: easy Christmas cards
December 14, 2009 – 3:09 am | 3 Comments
Christmas Crafts: easy Christmas cards

The last post in the Christmas craft series focuses on Christmas cards. We made a few different types out of thick red paper, which we decorated with a mix of materials including magazine paper, glitter …

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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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Free Christmas workshop at the Contemporary Applied Arts
December 1, 2009 – 1:54 am | No Comment
Free Christmas workshop at the Contemporary Applied Arts

What I love about London is that if you look well enough you find plenty of free activities to do with kids like the fabulous workshop for children aged between 6 and 12 offered by …

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