Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – an easy way to make your own beautiful bling.
They say there’s no such thing as too much bling and this easy project will have the little ones, and you, making a treasure trove of jaunty jewels in no time.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project, Valentine’s Day crafts.
These projects include the cutest bracelet, a kiss flip book, and some wonderful string art.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project. This week’s projects are to add a bit of fun to your Christmas wrapping.
Have you noticed that the cheap Christmas paper is getting thinner and is ripping more easily while the expensive paper is becoming, well, more expensive?
For me, nothing beats brown paper packages tied up with string (these are a few of my favourite things) yet at Christmas, it’s fun to jazz up the gifts, even if you don’t resort to all the glitter and glitz that is part of the season.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project, funtastic gifts for Christmas.
These little gifts come straight from the heart but do not require special skills and expensive materials. In fact, they are funtastic.
They include a gorgeous teacup garden, a decorative tin, a personalised mug and a chalk board cutting board.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project. This week I have some super cute and fabulous jewellery crafts, some that can be done in literally seconds!
The projects include some cute Christmas earrings made out of cardboard, a ridiculously easy necklace and bracelet using headbands, and how to turn kid art into wearable bling.
The perfect way to display artwork.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making Mum smile with pretty picture planters.
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, the challenge is to find something new that will put a smile on her face.
This usually means a bit of creativity is required but the steps in this week’s projects (yes, there’s a bonus gift idea) are so easy that all you need is the ability to glue.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – Goddess of Glee friendship dolls.
February is International Friendship month according to a bunch of internet sites – though I’m unsure if this is official.
The United Nations International Friendship day is celebrated on July 30, then there’s National Friendship Day on the first Sunday in August, Women’s Friendship Day is on the third Sunday in August as well as Old Friends, New Friends Week and Best Friends Day – so there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate friends.
I like to try and celebrate friendship every day. I do this by sending text and email messages to let people know I’m thinking of them, sharing images I know my friends will enjoy, phone calls, lunch dates, greeting cards and general caring.
There are some wonderful crafts that can be made to celebrate friendships and their importance – I’ll share some links at the end of this post.
This week’s project comes with a free, downloadable template for the doll and a little poem you can include in a card if you choose.
Years ago I did a TAFE course designed to help women gain the skills and confidence to re-enter the workforce after being a stay at home mums.
At the end of the course, I wanted to give the other ladies, as well as the teachers, a gift to celebrate what we had achieved and the new friendships made.
I came up with the Goddesses of Glee – individually decorated paper dolls which I put on a card containing poems written specifically for each person.
They were a lot of fun to make and the recipients loved them. They would make a fun project to do with kids (though they may not want to give them away once they’re made) and a great craft for tweens to celebrate their friends.
Use the template to help you cut out the doll pieces.
Use paper fasteners to attach the doll’s limbs and use glue to attach the head.
My Goddess making a Goddess
Decorating decisions can be so tough.
Now, if you’re good with rhyming words you can make up a little poem to suit your friend, or write your own special un-rhyming message, or you can download my Goddess of Glee poem here.
For a cute Crown of Friends project – great for the little ones – visit First Palette.
Discover how to make the easiest doll ever.
Check out my Grand Jewellery Making Pinterest board to find some other great friendship bracelets to make.
Wishing you happy friendships and a gleeful week, Tamuria.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – Christmas gifts to make.
As i promised in Make 5 Irresistible Jewellery Gifts in 5 Minutes for Less Than $5, I am sharing some more projects for quick and inexpensive Christmas gifts to make.
Each of these projects can be made in under 10 minutes or less and have minimal costs involved.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making jewellery.
This is the first of two Wacky Workshops projects for Christmas gift ideas as promised in my post 3 Brilliant Steps to Save Christmas Stress and Money.
These very simple and inexpensive projects are great to keep but also make fantastic gifts and with Christmas around the corner, they could be just the thing you need.
At the end of the 5 projects to make in 5 minutes for less than $5, I will give you another project, equally gorgeous, easy and cheap but takes slightly longer to make.
Welcome to another Wacky Wednesday project – transforming children’s art.
My budding artists
They made all this in less than 30 minutes
Do you have some budding little artists in your life? Do you feel like you’re drowning in their artwork?
Once kids get started they can produce art at an alarmingly fast rate. Before you know it you have literally hundreds of pages of paintings and drawings.
Once they hit preschool and start bringing more home, you could be looking for a larger house just to accommodate all the art.
I once resorted to wallpapering a door to use up butterfly paintings my sons did when they were young.
Laundry door butterfly painting wallpaper
If you’re a little sentimental you may find it hard to throw these masterpieces away but with these clever ideas, you don’t have to.
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