handmade
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Personalised Jigsaw Puzzles
Over the Christmas period I try each year to make as much of the family’s festive experience as personal and as meaningful as possible. For me this means bringing as much handmade and home created magic to the Christmas period as possible. I don’t mean to say that we avoid the commercialised trappings of the
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Wooden Bookmarks
For the upcoming holiday season I have made a large number of handmade wooden pencil bookmarks personalised and decorated with individual names. This fun little project took a lot longer than I had anticipated, but I am glad to have it finished before the end of November. These are simple wooden bookmarks, decorated with simple
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Peachy Little Summer Shirt
It’d been a long while since I made a shirt, maybe almost a decade, but certainly since before Bean was born, and I thought it was about time I introduced a few more wovens to his wardrobe for the summer. I wanted to make a traditional shirt, but very relaxed and with short sleeves to
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Slate Plant Labels
I made a set of slate plant labels to finish the set up of the new herb bed in the garden and to replace the plastic labels that some of them started out with. As spring arrives and we start to spend some more time in the garden I want to bring our recent additions
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Wonka Scrumdidilyumptious Bars
When I made last year’s Willy Wonka costume I made some Wonka Bars for my then 6 year old to take into school. This year I have decided to up the game by making some Wonka Scrumdidilyumptious Bars. The first step to making the bars was to find an inexpensive and widely available chocolate bar
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Batch Upcycling
Today was the first day of the year that I have looked outside and thought ‘it won’t be long before I can hang my washing outside’, and the idea filled me with joy. The idea of clean fresh clothes fluttering in a sunny breeze will be a welcome relief to both the senses and the