A Cupcake Armada (and back to school fever!)
How are you? Today feels like the last day of the long summer break, before school and work restart in earnest next week. An amazing summer of long hot days, evenings without bedtime curfews and...
View ArticleWelcome to the Starlight Puppet Theatre!
It’s funny how randomly some childhood passions are created. Whilst every small boy seems to go through phases where the world revolves around dinosaurs, superheroes, and Lego, other obsessions are...
View ArticleThe Letter Box: Preserving The Magic of Snail Mail
I’ve written often on this blog about my love of letters and the abiding magic of good things in the post. For someone who delights in receiving mail, I don’t write to others nearly often enough, so...
View ArticleMay The Force Be With You
Today I have an answer for that universal question which troubles us all at one or other time; ‘How Does One Make a Star Wars Fighter Ship Out of Cardboard?’. Well alright, I know that in reality it’s...
View ArticleQuick crafts: DIY Santa!
Harry and I are beginning to feel a bit festive (if you’re in Bah Humbug-mode, look away and shush your tut-tutting…). Perhaps it’s the steady thud of Christmas catalogues arriving in the post, or the...
View ArticleThe Longest Journey
A few months ago, I saw a picture on Pinterest of a toy giraffe with a small gift tied on its back and it made me smile, and sparked my imagination; last week I raided Harry’s Ark and created a winter...
View ArticleChristmas at Home
Today is apparently the busiest day for holiday traffic as everyone heads for home and family in a grand exodus. Even though we’re not travelling, the dawn of the weekend does seem to signify the...
View ArticleRecycling Christmas!
Possibly the simplest DIY you’ll ever see here – but a timely one! Do you recycle old Christmas cards by using them to make other things? it’s a thrifty tradition I remember from early childhood,...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Small Boys
Until very recently, if you had asked me about the mythology of what small boys keep in their pockets, I would have been inclined to dismiss it as literary cliché and nostalgia. What modern boy, after...
View ArticleSilvered Pebbles; a DIY Garden Game for Summer
We’re in the throes of an unexpectedly lovely May holiday weekend, and have been living outdoors, sorting out sheds and pottering in the garden. I uncovered a stash of old tiles, leftover from...
View ArticleToy Passports! (Or, how to take the entire family on holiday…)
Last month we set off for Provence laden with just about everything you would possibly need for a short break in the French countryside, and many things you wouldn’t. We are masters at packing random...
View ArticleAltered Books for Little People
It’s that stage of the Easter Holidays where time seems to drag and even Harry occasionally thinks wistfully of school restarting, so we’ve been extra-resourceful this week and have had a go at...
View ArticleHoliday Gifting: DIY kids desk art calendar
Each year at about this time I start to think in earnest about Christmas gifts, and Harry and I plan things that we can make for the biggest people in his life; grandparents, godparents… something...
View ArticleWinter Animal Matryoshka
The nights here are drawing in as the seasons turn, bringing out my hibernating instinct. The wind and rain and the sudden chill in the air have given the perfect excuse for spending a few evenings...
View ArticleThe Summer Shoe Project
Welcome back! After a crazy few weeks of work and travel and the general plate-spinning of life, I am at last perched on a chair in the art room once again, able to share a few projects and updates...
View ArticleDIY Harry Potter Wooden Figure Set
It’s Harry’s birthday soon, and I wanted to make him something special. Last year’s matryoshka woodland animals were a huge, if slow-burning hit; one winter’s night we repurposed them as...
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