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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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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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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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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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…
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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 you can read all about it on My Poppet LIVING now. Emma is really into all things Harry Potter at the moment,…
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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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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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