Category: Crafts

  • Milk bottle Halloween ghosts

    Milk bottle Halloween ghosts

    Transform your used milk bottles into ghosts and add electric tea candles/ glow sticks to light them up. If the candle is too large to fit in, cut a hole at the back. You can add stones to weight them down or use th indoor with fairy lights instead of electric candles. This is a…

  • Sticks spiderweb – eco friendly decorations

    Sticks spiderweb – eco friendly decorations

    Start with a walk in the nearby woods and gather a few sticks from some fallen branches. Then form a star with 3 or 4 of them and stick them together in the middle with some string or tape (not that green but masking tape is slightly better). Then run some yarn from one stick…

  • Gift wrapping ideas

    Gift wrapping ideas

    Some ideas to decorate gifts. Try origami flowers, lace, buttons, wide ribbons and stones, cheap jewellery parts or numbers/letters made of beads.

  • Bamboo poles tent

    Bamboo poles tent

    I made the frame for this tent using bamboo sticks, tape and some plastic pipes from a game we have in the house. I then covered the structure with a large sheet and put a duvet and pillows in it. I decorated the tent and added some lights. Don’t forget about a tray with snacks.…

  • Rubbish bag spider webs

    Rubbish bag spider webs

    Similar technic like the paper snowflakes. You cut the bag into a square than fold it a few time first in a triangle then another time in half and then cut the sides and leave a core part in the middle like in the photo. There are several other versions online. Super easy. Stick them…

  • Halloween ideas

    Halloween ideas

    Some random ideas for Halloween and autumn: – orange pumpkin transformation – harvest garland – carved pumpkin idea – felt and foam Halloween card

  • Halloween mice silhouette decor

    Halloween mice silhouette decor

    Print and cut some black mice silhouettes and stick them to your walls or stairs. Super cheap way to decorate your house.

  • Pom pom spiders

    Pom pom spiders

    With Halloween coming soon here’s a thematic craft project. To make these spiders you need paper, pom poms and wiggle eyes. Get some scissors to cut a base and legs and stick everything on the little paper base. Add the eyes and a mouth and you are done.

  • Ice table decorations

    Ice table decorations

    Here are a few ideas to ornate your table with ice. Ice & flowers/fruit bottle holder or frozen bottles as Jamie Oliver calls them. You need a cut big plastic bottle and an empty wine bottle (or if you like gin and vodka they can go inside the freezer as they are so no need…

  • Quilling cards

    Quilling cards

    Here’s some cards using the quilling technique. It was a while back and tools were not available so made my own. I cut my own paper strips and made a quilling tool from an ear cotton bud (I removed the cotton and cut the plastic stick in two for half a centimetre, enough to fit…