DIY Handmade Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments

On Christmas Eve I tried my hand at some salt dough ornaments, inspired by this picture on Pinterest. Suffice to say, mine didn’t turn out as nice as that! They are still cute though. You only need 3 ingredients, salt, plain flour and warm water. Mix them all together to make a dough, roll it [...]

Christmas Wrapping & Decorations 2010

It’s Christmas Eve! We’ve just finished up Christmas #1, which I’ll post about later, but for now I’d like to share a few of our Chrissy decorations and also how I’ve wrapped some of my presents. I wanted to be a little bit creative with wrapping this year (though, as with most things, I got [...]

DIY Christmas Wreath

This year I decided to make a wreath from twigs and ribbon. As it turned out, I used the remnants to the dead tree killed by the kitty cats, recycling is in my friends! Inspired by a star shaped wreath I saw in the December issue of Martha Stewart (gt my first copy last week, [...]

Christmas Tree Update

You may have read in my earlier post about how I decided to go with an old family tradition from when I was a kid for our tree this year… well, the kitty cats decided that was a lame idea and pulled the whole tree down one day while we were at work. I figured [...]

DIY Halloween Decorations

I had a great idea the other day for an eerie DIY decoration for hallowing, re-using vases and submersible floralytes from our wedding.

Continue reading to find out what you need to make it and photos of the completed project!

Halloween Party Decorations

I’ve taken some photos of the decorations I’ve bought for my Halloween Party, any visitors from the US might think it’s not very much stuff, but people from Aus know Halloween isn’t big here so it will be enough to get everyone in the mood =P I’ve got some black velvety type fabric (left over [...]

DIY Bride – Super easy: How to make your own placecards for 3c a piece

I wanted quite simple placecards for the guests at our wedding, just simply a folded card with their name printed on it. I looked around everywhere online to find some pre-cut cards, but the prices were extraordinary! The cheapest I could find went for 70c a piece, and then I needed to buy more paper [...]

DIY Bride – How to make wedding pomanders

In this step by step tutorial I’ll show you how I went about making white rose pomander balls for my wedding. Step 1. Gather your supplies! You will need: – Silk rose stems – Styrofoam balls 10cm across (4in) – Thin coloured ribbons – Wide coloured ribbon – Wire snippers – Glue gun I bought [...]