Crafting at Home

Anya was home sick from school three days out of five last week, she caught her brothers nasty cold and then got a tummy bug on top of tha...

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Useful Tips for Painting Aluminium: A Mothers Day Craft

This was the mothers day craft for my daughters class this year, which I help organise, they were filled with mints although mine holds my...

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Christmas Crafting: Tree in the Snow

Well after seeing Sweet Paul's gorgeous snow globe we had to make our own!  We too used rock salt but added a touch of glitter.  With...

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Handmade Christmas Cards: Holiday Crafting

Making some Christmas cards with my craft-loving girl!  I got her to paint a couple of pictures in watercolour using some old Christmas ca...

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Children's Activity: Matching Colours

We saw this idea on Pinterest and made up our own colour matching game.  The wooden pegs and paint chips were from Bunnings .  I was too l...

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School Holiday Activity: Mini Clothes Line

Have you heard of busy bags?  I've seen them on Pinterest and not quite sure why I didn't have one hundred of them planned out for...

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Update on my Free Bunting Template and Tutorial

Using my bunting template I made some bunting for my nephew's first birthday party but chose an alternative method to the quick and e...

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Long Weekend Crafting

Shaving cream art thanks to Play Create, Explore .  I pinned this idea on the weekend, something I knew Anya would enjoy.  I find these so...

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Shop Handmade Favourites

I dropped off my first box of stock to Shop Handmade for the year and took some product shots for the Facebook page .  Isn't this t...

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Christmas Craft DIY: Sequin Tree

Sequin Christmas Tree Anya hard at work Yesterday was supposed to be 'take Christmas photos' on our advent calendar but I ...

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Australian Markets: Finders Keepers, Sydney

On the way home from the city we dropped into the Finders Keepers Market !  It was pretty busy and we didn't have a whole lot of ti...

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Christmas Craft: Easy DIY Advent Calendar

Advent Calendar I made my first Advent Calendar on the weekend.  It was an easy project with minimal cost and I think it looks great....

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Self Drying Clay Christmas Decorations

Anya and I made these Christmas decorations with self drying clay from Bunnings . The white sold out early last Christmas so you might wa...

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How to make a Pinata - Oh Happy Day

Jordan has done a tutorial on how to make a Pinata :-) I thought the base of these numbers would be great decorated in a number of ways...

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Easter Craft - Glassine Cookie Bags

I thought some cute custom-made glassine bags would be a nice touch for our Easter cookies! You need a sheet of glassine (we bought one fr...

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