A Beautiful Mess. Little lovelies. Under The Table and Dreaming. MaryJanes and Galoshes. Random Tutorial Generator. Inspiration and original craft ideas for weddings, parties, children, such as home decoration, gifts, cards, personal accessories and templates. Always Order Dessert. Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more. Hey Look - Event styling, design inspiration, DIY ideas and more: PRETTY PACKAGING IDEAS. I think my favorite part of gift-giving is wrapping the goods.
I really don't mind if the wrapping paper is being ripped off afterwards, I simply enjoy spending a lot of time and thought on making a present look as pretty as possible. Here's some cute and creative gift wrapping inspiration I found around the web: Washi tape ideas: Sweet Paul (left) and Tea For Joy (right) Lace gift wrapping: Sweet Paul, Colorful fabric packaging: Handmade Weddings (via Haystack Needle) Simple glitter ribbon on craft paper (Besotted Brand) & Colorful woven paper (Craftzine) Pretty doily wrapping - left: Facil Y Sencillo, right: A Creative Mint Confetti on double-sided tape: 3@12, Confetti dipping fun: Tokketok Left: rainbow yarn on craft paper (via babble), right: bunting, pom garlands and yarn (two shades of pink) Left: great idea for wrapping a cookbook (Sweet Paul), right: signature gift packaging by Inhaus Press.
McLaughlin Designs · Knitting and Crochet Patterns. Thespunmonkey's Blog. Elsewhere. In recent posts both here and High Up in the Trees, you will have read mention to not one, not two, but four new zines for 2014.
As if from the clouds, restless is one. Four Rainbow Lorikeets who visited my garden one summer's day is another. G's Misreadings makes three. And this, Twelve months, an explorer, is the fourth. Printed on Sparrow Grey stock, it features my bird portraits from A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds and the hand-coloured version A Flight of Twelve Southern Hemisphere Birds accompanied by G's imaginative narrative. All four of these new zine titles will be at the forthcoming Sticky Zine Fair at the Melbourne Town Hall. Until then, scroll on and see what awaits. JANUARY Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)WEDNESDAY 16th 1.50 PM As I sit here concealed by leafy tropical canopy in Lae, a remote part of Papua New Guinea, I am thinking that my hastily formed idea might just be a little mad and most decidedly ill formed.
. * Drawn here surrounded by a ring of termites. Creative Kismet. Wire & Paper. Handmade children's products community for retailers, parents. Make it Modern. DIY Projects « Fossil Blog. Crafty Nest. Birch + Bird Vintage Home Interiors. Goblin Art. Design. wash. rinse. repeat. Birthday parties.
Sure to be the death of me! Luckily I've got my littles somewhat convinced that it is reasonable to do a big bash every-other-year... so we can all have plenty of time to recover. That being said, this is a non-party year, and i must admit i'm feeling a titch nostalgic for last year's good times. Amidst the chaos I never posted pics, so here's a much belated accounting of our sweet soirée. Both my girls absolutely love to bake, so when one decided to have a bakery themed birthday party the other quickly demanded the same thing. Fast forward a couple months, and it was time for party number two.
Honestly, aside from the aprons, I think everyone's favorite thing was the super easy donut game. Looking for a freebie download of a Bake Shoppe Birthday invitation & welcome sign? Chezlin — Reuse, Create, Craft. Design*Sponge. Tutorial: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk. By Michelle Vackar, Modern Handmade Child One of our favorite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway.
You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun. What you will need: • Toilet paper or paper towel tubes • Scissors • Duct tape • Wax paper • Small bucket or disposable container to make the recipe • ¾ cup of warm water • 1 ½ cups Plaster of Paris • 2-3 tablespoons of tempera paint • Paper bag or a “mess mat” ** we made six tubes of chalk – we simply doubled the above recipe Step 1: If you are using paper towel tubes, cut each tube in half, so it is roughly the length of a toilet paper roll tube.
Step 2: Cover one end of each tube with duct table to hold the contents within. Step 3: Cut as many pieces of wax paper as you have tubes. Handmadeology - The Science of Handmade. Make and share step-by-step craft tutorials. Psimadethis. More Design Please - MoreDesignPlease. Decor8. Glue Gun Crafts with Craftzilla. Evie-s. Candle & Soap Making Techniques.