Yes it’s true! The easiest cake you’ll ever bake. No need for fussy measurements or recipe books, if you can count to four you can make this cake. It was the first recipe I ever baked as a kid, and still make it occasionally now and then when unexpected visitors pop in. It differs slightly than other 1234 cake recipes…
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You’re gifts will always look professionally wrapped when you add this pretty gift bow to it. I used to do a lot of gift wrapping when I had the store, and customers would always appreciate the extra effort I went to, but really it was not much effort at all. I’d make the bows up in advance between customers, then…
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An easy tutorial explaining how to make doll hair from yarn. Ideally suited for adding hair to rag dolls and other homemade soft toys. I thought I’d share my little impromptu project to upgrade Emma’s doll ‘Memma’, who was badly in need of a new hairstyle and sadly a little bit neglected. Emma loves Jemima from Play School and I…
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I was messing about with some images on picnik.com the other day and thought some printable Kewpie doll labels might be fun. You can print these out onto adhesive paper to make make stickers, or just onto plain paper and paste them on with glue. You could also print onto card to make gift tags. You are limited only by…
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Ever wondered how to make a perfectly rounds and fluffy pom pom? The trick is to use a doughnut shaped pom pom maker tool. I’ll show you how easy it is to make perfect pom poms with my step-by-step pom pom maker instructions. I picked up this awesome set of Pom Pom makers in Japan at the most amazing department…
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I couldn’t wait to make a cover for my new iPad this weekend, and there is nothing I love more than using up my scraps…so it was logical to make a felty patched cover sleeve. This tutorial will show you how to make the felted patchwork for the outer part of the cover and the instructions of how to measure…
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I’ve been sowing my winter veg garden, and because I’m a little on the lazy side I usually throw the seeds straight in to the soil and wait for something to happen. Fair enough you say, not lazy just practical. But the problem is, by the time anything sprouts I’ve totally forgotten what I’ve planted. So I had a brilliant…
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I’m off to a Melbourne bloggers meet hosted by Danimezza tonight and Shock! Horror! I just realised that I’d run out of business cards. So even though I hate the idea of make your own cards, I sort of had no choice. I’m pretty pleased at how these turned out for a rush job, they are all cut a bit…
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