DIY Christmas Crafts: Baked Orange Garland
The scent of these baked oranges are up there with freshly cut grass, baked bread and chai latte, for me. A Christmas craft that’s ridiculously easy to do and one I do year after year...
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Birthday Pottery Class: I made a Clay Ceiling Pendant
As I get older, the things I want to do to celebrate my birthday are getting more like a refined children’s birthday party and I not only love this for myself but for those who...
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10 CHRISTMASSY colour palettes for you
Creating colour palettes brings me so much unbridled joy. Here are 10 Christmassy colour palettes for you to feast your eyes on and use in your festive projects.
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This Crochet Pattern Makes The Cosiest Blanket
Our daughter is in her minimalistic preppy era and wanted a blanket for her bed which fit the brief. I found just the thing and then made it!
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Turn Your Handwriting Into A Font (It’s *So* Easy)
Right up there in the things that bring me jolts of joy are colour palettes and fonts. I just love how they bring projects, even personal ones, to life; giving them an energy and identity of their own. While I have created some fonts (and sell them), I wanted to share how you can do so with your handwriting - it's ridiculously easy and quick.
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6 Skillshare Workshops for Keen Christmas Crafters
There's something magical about filling your home with your own crafted creations. Building a stash of lovingly made objects which can be kept and re-used year on year. Using existing skills or learning new ones, just brings with it a sense of achievement and sentimentality.
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An Easy Peasy Way to Create Your Own Colour Palettes in Canva
It's something that's spanned my life, this love of colour. I'd collect paint charts as a kid, create mood boards from the Argos Catalogue and sort my large collection of Crayola Crayons into colour order in the fancy schmancy crayon holder I had. Since then, I've pulled together colour palettes for book covers, products, mood boards for DIY and 'just for fun' and I want to show you how you can do so too.
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A Christmas Gift Guide for Pre-Teen Girls
I do not like choosing gifts for people. In fact, it's a huge source of stress for me. Will they like it? Do they already have it? What if they pretend to like it? What if they're disappointed? Thankfully, we have a long-held family tradition of sharing gift lists and I'm really grateful we do. With that in mind, and because this pre-teen age is one I find tricky to buy for, I roped Peggy into helping me craft this gift guide for pre-teen girls in the hope it'll help you in the same way our lists help me.
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