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Paper Craft – Make a Butterfly Lantern
Make a beautiful Butterfly Lantern to decorate your room or workspace with just the humblest of craft materials – paper! It’s a fun project that both kids and adults will enjoy making. Used floral or patterned scrapbook paper to personalise the design to match your home decor. Have you ever visited a butterfly house? It’s a delightful experience full of…
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Stripe & Tassel Knitted Washcloth Pattern
If you are new to knitting, making washcloths are an easy way to practice your skills without having to commit to a large project. This pretty knitted washcloth pattern only requires the most basic of knitting skills. The addition of stripes and cute crocheted tassels on each corner elevate this basic knitted square from ‘blah’ to ‘Ta-Da’! In my opinion,…
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16 Pom Pom Craft Ideas to Love
Pom Pom making is super fun and quite addictive. You really can’t stop at making just one. But what to do with all those pom poms after a pom pom making spree? I’ve got 16 terrific Pom Pom Craft Ideas that you are sure to love. Pom poms are a fantastic way to add a little bit of pizzazz to…
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Sailor Moon Tuxedo Mask Finger Puppet
With school holidays coming up, this hand stitched Sailor Moon Tuxedo Mask finger puppet may be a fun project for anime loving tweens and teens to make. It’s a great way to practice some sewing skills too. Designed by regular contributor Melissa, who is a huge anime and manga fan. It was the mid 90’s, I was at a different…
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12 Covetable Hand Dyed Yarns + Etsy on Sale
After I started knitting it was obvious that my desire for collecting vintage fabric would need no make way for a new obsession – Yarn! Over the past couple of years my stash has grown to include all sorts of yarn, because it’s fun to experiment with different materials as my skills develop, but there is one type of yarn…
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DIY Hogwarts Robes – Ginny Weasley Cosplay
I’m so excited to finally share the photos of Emma as Ginny Weasley in her finished Hogwarts Robes, that I made for her Harry Potter Birthday Party. The party was weeks in the planning (and making) and I’ll be sharing a full story about it over on My Poppet LIVING soon. Emma is really into all things Harry Potter at…
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Easy Mirror Makeover – From Drab to Fab
It’s amazing how a lick of paint can transform a fairly ubiquitous looking thrift store find into something that is custom-made for your space. It’s a great budget option for updating a boring old piece of furniture, picture frame, or in my case, a mirror. We recently renovated our powder room and for months it was mirror-less. To be honest…
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Craft Fail – What to do when a craft project doesn’t go as expected
I’ve been crafting for a long time, and for all the lovely and well made finished projects I post here and on Instagram, there are a few lurking around my craft room that were total failures. This week I had the brilliant idea to crochet a big storage basket from leftover cotton yarn. It was designed to fit into a…
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DIY Harry Potter Wizard Wands
When Emma decided on a Harry Potter themed birthday party, the first thing she insisted on was that every guest was to have their own wand. Luckily for me wands are pretty easy to make, and without much effort, or special craft supplies, Emma and I had a lot of fun making a range of Harry Potter style Wizard Wands….
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DIY Delicious Felt Burger Brooch
I’ve never met a single person that didn’t love a good hamburger. And what’s not to love? The beauty of the burger is that it can cater to any taste – Vegetarian, fancy gourmet or my favourite, the down and dirty drive-thru burger that hits the spot after a big night out! You don’t need to be a hardcore burger…
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Harry Potter Party Craft – Chocolate Golden Snitches
As soon as Emma and I started planning her Harry Potter Birthday Party, the first thing she insisted I make was a tray of Chocolate Golden Snitches. If you don’t know what a Golden Snitch is I’ll give your the run down. A Golden Snitch is a small metal ball with wings that has been enchanted to fly during a…
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12 Mother’s Day Gifts That Kids Can Make
There’s nothing more special than receiving a gift on Mother’s Day morning made with love by little hands. Sure, said gifts aren’t always very elegant, or super practical, but we hold onto them for years, because that’s just what we mums do. My own mother still has a wall hanging with my sister’s hand and foot print hanging on her…
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