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DIY magical wizarding wands | Getting crafty

by StaceyUpdated on March 11, 2024May 21, 2019

Jacob has recently become obsessed with Harry Potter – I’m not sure where he’s got that from… Ahem. For his birthday this year he had a Harry Potter themed tea party with some friends from school. When it comes to party bags I don’t like putting in the usual “tat”; I prefer something that will be used more than once and has had some love put into it. So of course there was only one thing for it – magical wizarding wands! These DIY wands don’t take all that long to make, and you probably already have everything you …

Oh Happy Day card kit | Review

by StaceyUpdated on July 4, 2024August 13, 2016

Before my mother-in-law fell ill and passed away a few years ago, she was a keen card maker. Prior to Jacob making his entrance to the world, I often sat down to help her when we visited. By doing this, I managed to build up my own collection of handmade cards! Back then I found card making to be such a relaxing pastime, and also the gift of a handmade card and the thought, imagination and individuality that goes into each one is so appreciated. When I was contacted to see if I would like to review the Oh Happy Day card …

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Craft tutorial | Salt dough dinosaur fossils

by StaceyUpdated on March 14, 2016March 15, 2016

It was the boys’ birthday party at the weekend and after my post on alternatives to party bags, I wanted to give the attending children something they might not usually get. Don’t get me wrong, they did get party bags and the contents were all dinosaur related, but I wanted to make a little something that they could keep as a reminder of the party too, which is when I came up with these idea of these cute little salt dough dinosaur fossils!

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Craft tutorial – Egg box Christmas trees

by StaceyUpdated on January 26, 2016December 20, 2015

We’ve been doing quite a few Christmas crafts this month – mainly stolen from Pinterest I will admit – but this one I just thought up when I bought some eggs in a green box. Egg box Christmas trees! (Obviously with a plain egg box they would need painting too). It does involve a little adult help for cutting the cones from the egg box and possibly putting the glue on them, but the sticking allows children to be creative with their trees and makes a very simple enjoyable activity. This is suitable for pre-schoolers and toddlers, as even Noah …

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Our Easter Plans – Family, Chocolate, and Crafts!

by StaceyUpdated on March 25, 2026April 1, 2015

Before we had children, hubby & I didn’t really celebrate Easter or do anything for it – apart from buy each other lots of chocolate and stuff ourselves silly with it! When J arrived in the world, he was only a few weeks old when his first Easter came around, so yet again we didn’t really ‘celebrate’. It was only last year that I decided to make our own celebration of it, and I prepared him an Easter basket; N had arrived in the world a few weeks before too, so we had to dress him as a bunny, of …