Articles tagged with: Crafts

For someone who started the year wanting to take on sewing projects I have not done that well so far, but I finally got going with it. To start with I made some curtains …

To celebrate Earth Day today I decorated one of the many glass jars waiting to be turned into something useful. This vase is very simple, just a touch of glue and a few flowers …

Back in February I made some cork stamps for printing holiday symbols, and now one of them came useful to make a quick St Patrick’s Day card. Our shamrock stamp together with a little …

We printed hearts before using half a potato as a stamp, this time I made a stamp that we can keep out of a used cork. With a scalpel I cut out a heart shape …

This year I would like to do more crafty projects that require sewing skills. Unfortunately I am not very good at it, so if you see things under a positive light like I do it …

The holidays are over and finally we are back to normal. It took me a day with my son back at school to reorganize my daily routine and today here I am with a brand …

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 …

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 …

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 …