Have you ever wondered how you could upcycle an empty ice cream carton to make it into something pretty and useful?I'd imagine your answer is no to that question but now that I've put the question into your mind I'm going to answer it for you by showing you exactly how you can upcycle an empty ice cream carton and turn it into either a git box or a cute little storage box for your bits and bobs.First of all you need some paint that will work on the material of your ice cream carton - I use the Dulux Made by Me paint which I bought from the car boot sale not long ago.I … [Read more...]
2 ingredient homemade mod podge (and a quick idea to make cute personalised glasses with it)….
For years I've heard crafters refer to the wonder substance that is mod podge but I never really got what it was other than some sort of amazing substance that sounded expensive and way about my crafting ability.But then a couple of months ago as the leaves were turning from green to beautiful reds and oranges I googled 'how to stick a leaf to a glass jar' with the vague idea of turning a jam jar into a pretty candle holder decorated with the leaves we'd collected.Mod podge was the solution apparently but I really didn't want to buy something that would only be used once if I could … [Read more...]
Awesome conker crafts….
I might have mentioned on Facebook that we love getting out and collecting conkers at this time of year and that all we do with them is put them in a bowl so we can look at them and hope they really do keep spiders away.The very lovely Maggy from Red Ted Art was slightly horrified when she heard this as she pointed out there are so many conker crafts you can do with a plain old conker. Unconvinced,I asked her to give me some ideas and look at what she did - she wrote a whole list of conker crafts for me and has very kindly said I can share them with you all.I'll hand you over to … [Read more...]
Create your own personalised family travel map….
Miss Frugal has definitely caught the travel bug after our little break away to Cyprus recently! She seems to have developed a real love of travelling and visiting new places, something I want to encourage in both of my children because it's so important for them to learn about the world around us.She's started her own little travel journal to record the places that we've already been and she's been asking me for one of those personalised family travel map you can get where you scratch off the places you've been (like these). Rather than buy one of those for her, I bought a small … [Read more...]
Pipe cleaner crowns….
OK, so we know that I'm not the craftiest blogger around but we did make some pretty pipe cleaner crowns this weekend that I thought you might like to see....We used glitter pipe cleaners from Tesco because we wanted some sparkle as our crowns were for the Race for Life last Sunday (although we ended up leaving them in the car). They were £1.25 a pack and lots of the crafty stuff is on 3 for 4 or something like that so I bought a couple of packs and some coloured paper as well.You can't go far wrong if you start by making the band that goes around your head and then, once you've … [Read more...]
How to make an Awesome Sock Puppet (and save some money)….
Last week was half term here and I learned that (a) you're apparently never too old to play with play doh or to make a sock puppet and (b) it's always a good time for ice cream, even when it's freezing cold and blowing a gale.I'm going to concentrate on the 'never too old to make a sock puppet' today because I really do hate play doh and you obviously already know that ice cream makes any day better. ;-)I was challenged by Cavendish Online to see just how much money I could save by using their site to get a life insurance quote rather than a more well known site like Compare the … [Read more...]
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