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Making beeswax candles -- a lovely holiday craft (and a perfect gift)!

Making beeswax candles is a perfect DIY project for these cosy months of the year. Beeswax is entirely natural, even edible! So it's perfectly safe to play with, even by the littlest children. But making beeswax candles (and decorating them) is a lovely activity for all ages. I really like playing around with the wax ...

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An easy Christmas craft: clay ornaments and decorations

This is honestly the easiest Christmas craft, something the kids can do almost entirely on their own, and it has the prettiest result! Last weekend I handed the kids a package of Sculpey clay and some cookie cutters. I gave them each a glass bottle (to use as a rolling pin), and together they made ...

SKIN CARE AND MAKE UP

Homemade natural lip balm with beeswax and shea butter

'Tis the season! Of chapped lips and dry cheeks. All of my children have been complaining about dry lips and have been asking for lip balm. I've been reading some negative things about over-the-counter chapstick though, like the use of ingredients such as petroleum jelly / petrolatum (vaseline) and parabens. Things I don't want my kids ...

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Halloween luminaries, a sweet last-minute craft and fun for all ages!

Halloween is not a traditional holiday in the Netherlands, but we have adopted the tradition. The children like to dress up, we decorate the house with spooks and spiders and I make some scary dishes for dinner. We do walk around the neighbourhood -- there's a specific street where people really make an effort to ...

CRAFTS AND DIY

Creepy Critter Collage -- Halloween Craft Fun

This was one of those 'see-as-you-make' projects after school with some friends, and we love the end result of our creepy critter collages! You only need a few materials (but can easily improvise with what you have at home). And it takes about ten minutes to make one, adding a bit of halloween creepiness to ...

AUTUMN CRAFTS

Conker spiderwebs, an easy autumn craft with such pretty results!

This is an oldie but a goodie. As a child I used to make conker spiderwebs in school and with my mum. And so do my children. It's an easy autumn craft, manageable for little hands but also extremely entertaining for bigger ones. We all made conker spiderwebs the other day -- it's quite an ...

AUTUMN CRAFTS

Pressed paper clay leaves -- a little fall craft project

Leaves are changing colours and falling in Amsterdam and the colours of the trees are so pretty. When we're going for little walks in our neighbourhood, we can't help but come back with some colourful leaves in our hands. Little treasures!! The colourful autumnal leaves were the inspiration behind this little craft project: beautiful, pressed ...

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Papier-Mâché Pumpkins -- fun Halloween decoration

It's October, which means Halloween excitement is happening our house. It also means we have some fun Halloween crafts up our sleeve for the next few weeks. But I was reminded of our papier-mâché pumpkin we made last year! Actually, we made a whole box of fruit and vegetables, but really, just making pumpkins would be ...

AUTUMN CRAFTS

Gilded Leaf Garland -- a craft for all of Autumn

Last year we went into Autumn leaf collection overdrive, so I needed to find some clever ways to embrace the collection (mountain!) of leaves and create something artful from them. So today I will share our Autumnal gilded garland with you, which was done in stages and was really a very relaxed craft, especially since ...

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Pressed Floral Luminaires & Vases -- a craft farewell to Summer

Summer isn't yet over, and Autumn hasn't truly begun (at least not on the trees), but this weekend a grey and cold morning almost seemed to demand crafting in pajamas! Since we were tired (our third day home from the holidays, and the start of a new school year) we wanted a 'lazy craft' using only ...

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Friendship Bracelet Tutorial

Just recently I came across this bracelet making technique I have never seen before even though it’s only been around a couple thousand years. : ) It is called Kumihimo and it comes from Japan. This is just the very basic technique of Kumihimo, there are many much more complicated ones you can find on ...

RECIPES

Watermelon Shark -- the hit of every party and picnic

It is never too late in the summer for a little more fun, so consider this your last and greatest trick... a shark carved out of watermelon, and a fruit salad bowl all-in-one! YES! It has been the biggest hit at every party and picnic for two summers straight. I can't believe I haven't posted ...

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A tassel toothpick, or: a tooth fairy wand :)

Ever since my first daughter Tila lost her first tooth I do something silly when she leaves her tooth for the 'tooth fairy'. In Slovenia, where my husband and I come from, we have a tooth mouse instead of a fairy. So every time Tila leaves her tooth under her pillow I replace it with ...

SUMMER CRAFTS

Become a Mermaid -- jewellery made from beach and nature finds

A great summer pastime is strolling on the beach and collecting shells, stones, and seagrass. But after a month last summer of filling buckets and pockets, the sweet little Irish cottage we were staying in was bursting at the seams with our beach treasures. We had to either secretly save the best and transport the ...

CRAFTS AND DIY

Shibori invitations for Ava's 8th birthday party, so pretty and so easy to make!

I shared my crazy idea for a shibori party for Ava's 8th birthday yesterday. Beforehand, Ava made these pretty shibori invitations. They are super easy to make. The only things needed are an indigo coloured watercolour paint (or any dark blue), a thin round brush and a bigger flat square brush, and watercolour paper postcards ...

BIRTHDAY PARTIES

A shibori party for Ava's 8th birthday party, so magical!

Did you ever try tie-dye when you were a child? I remember doing it at primary school and loving it! So for Ava's 8th birthday party, I thought it would be fun to make Shibori style tie-dye t-shirts with the girls. I had done tie-dye before with my children years ago (look at Casper in this ...

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Thoughtful Teacher's Gifts -- Personalised Portraits

It is nearly the end of school in the UK, which reminded me of the last-minute gift panic we experienced last year! And as the end of the year quickly approached with a non-stop list of activities : sports days, parties, picnics, summer shows (!) we thought we had nearly run out of time to ...

DIY FOR MUMS

Reusable Food Wraps DIY

Did you try the Beeswax Food Wraps already? For the ones that don’t know them already, they are cotton pieces of fabric coated with a mixture of natural ingredients like beeswax, oil and tree resin and they are meant to store food just like plastic wrap minus the bad. You use the warmth of your ...

BIRTHDAY PARTIES

An ice-cream birthday party for Ava's 7th -- fun, sweet and easy!

Ava turned 8 last weekend and as I'm planning the birthday party for her friends, I realised that I never shared the photos of the super sweet ice-cream birthday party we organised for her last year. It was a really fun day, full of ice-creams (obviously!) and with a bit of creativity too. It was ...

BIRTHDAY PARTIES

A bee-themed 5th birthday tea party

Our little Queen Bee, Beatrice, just turned five and we had a very small party in our little hive to celebrate. We asked a few of her closest honeybees to join us, and splashed out on homemade fun for the event. I started the preparations the week before the party, sending little personal invites out. ...

EASTER CRAFTS

Dyeing, Hiding, and Decorating -- a day of Easter Egg Fun

Growing up we would spend at least one full day dyeing Easter eggs. We would start with dozens of eggs, and my mother used to hard boil some and let us make blown eggs with the others, and inevitably we always ran out of eggs because the fun in dyeing dozens of eggs was endless! ...

EASTER CRAFTS

Natural Egg Dyeing for Easter

Dyeing eggs with natural ingredients creates a beautiful result -- sometimes a bit unexpected, but with tones that are truly stunning! This is a really fun activity to do before Easter. I will warn you in advance thou, since it was my first time, we called it our eggy experiment but the children were excited ...

SPRING CRAFTS

Spring Daffodil Bouquets -- a paper craft to celebrate the new season

Could it be that Spring is on its way? The snow has melted (for us!) and sunny yellow daffodils are beginning to appear in our local park, trumpeting the arrival of a new season. Hurray! It is such a joyful sight. And to celebrate and welcome this new season, I recently made these daffodils at my ...

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