It's always fun to mark then end of term and spend time with your friends in the school holidays, so when The Girls asked for a festive event, who was I to say no? The result was a Festive Christmas Tree Activity Party, where everything was tree-shaped. This printable on my Advent Activity Calendar board on Pinterest, via Vegie Smugglers. It's a great colour-and-cut printable that is a quick and easy activity for any … [Read more...]
House Renovation ideas for the kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of our home, not least because I am lucky to have an Aga, so it is the warmest place in the house for most of the day. It's a lovely large room which houses a good sized dining table, two walls of units and one brick-built recess on the third wall for the Aga. The fourth wall was a bit of a conundrum- it had an empty narrow alcove, the door to our hallway corridor and a sliding door to the small Utility Room. I needed a … [Read more...]
Creating a New Home Wreath from cleaning supplies
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and their client. A friend moved house recently and I wanted to bring her a gift that didn't require eating, or a vase. She's just had a baby, and I was reminded of a beautiful bouquet I received when LBG was born that was made from socks and booties and useful things. Then last week … [Read more...]
How to make a drawstring bag: Take One Pair of Jeans Challenge
I missed out when Missie Lizzie B ran her Take One Jumper Challenge. I never quite got around to making the things I planned to: I never found the right sweater. So when she reached out on Twitter, suggesting that I might be up for a Jeans challenge, I was a little more responsive. I cut out the fabric almost immediately. And then I did nothing with it: progress of a kind. And yet a flurry of activity today gave me some progress. Following … [Read more...]
Painting Leprechauns with straws
Putti gave me a brilliant idea, so I pinned her paint-blowing painting to remind me. See that's an example of Pinterest working really well: I saw something that inspired me to do something else. But anyhow, I took her some watered-down paint and a straw and made: a lucky leprechaun. and Dimples made this one: … [Read more...]
Simple upcycled spoon plant markers
I've seen quite a few plant marker posts on Pinterest, my spiritual home. Sadly they seem to involved metal stamping of some kind and that, quite frankly, is beyond my threshold of what-can-be-reasonably-achieved-in-my-lifetime. I'm fairly sure that the tools required would throw DH over the edge and may force him to move into his as-yet-unfinished-man-shed and never return. But I am nothing if not inventive. Aside from the fact that our … [Read more...]
Snowflakes from cupcake cases
I like making things from cupcake cases almost as much as I like making things from corks. Just before Christmas I saw a really lovely snowflake wreath on Pinterest. It sat around in the back of my mind for a while until one afternoon when The Girls were unexpectedly occupied and I was twiddling a cupcake case in my hand, when the idea came back to me. So, you know how to make paper snowflakes, right? I had to think about it for a minute, … [Read more...]
