November 29th, 2011

I’ve often admired lanterns like these and even saved up a load of tin cans this summer to give making them a go, but life kind of got in the way what with my roller coaster year of upheaval and the cans ended up in the recycling bin and the idea stashed away for a rainy day. Well today is that rainy day and I’m determined to give these a go at long last.

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November 22nd, 2011

Jessica over at How About Orange is a total genius. I was flicking through my favourite blogs last week and stumbled across her latest tutorial and just had to share it with you here on my blog. It’s brilliant. It’s so simple too – once you know how and thanks to Jessica spending ages figuring it all out, you  don’t have to – just follow the instructions and away you go…

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October 25th, 2011

I recently discovered this great tutorial by Amanda Wood on how to make lovely stickers from recycled paper. The best thing about it is that the tutorial uses one of my favourite things – envelopes with funky security patterns. How could I resist!

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April 5th, 2011

Now here’s another fabulous tutorial from How About Orange! I’ve just bought some funky new mugs in bright colours for our new kitchen and seeing this tutorial reminded me of them. I really want to make a load of these for the fridge once we’re back in – been without a kitchen for nearly three months now!!!

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December 24th, 2010

Well it’s here at last! I’m saying Happy Christmas today as it’s Christmas Eve and as a Pole I celebrate Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day – this works very well in the Milo/Andrews household as we get to have two Christmases – a Polish one on the 24th and an Irish one on the 25th and we meet in the middle by opening our presents at midnight tonight. I can’t wait.

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