How to design and make a beaded bracelet
Mar04

How to design and make a beaded bracelet

Customising glass beads and making bracelets is such a fun activity. The finished product can be tailored to create whatever fashion style you like. Maybe you could choose red, white and blue colours to create a bracelet fit for the wrist of a Diamond Jubilee Queen. Or what about adding little CND symbols so that you can recreate that San Francisco 1960s hippy-chick look – if you do be sure to wear flowers in your hair! Craft Supplies...

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Bic’s wipeboard for children? Under £4? Brilliant, that’s what it is.
Feb06

Bic’s wipeboard for children? Under £4? Brilliant, that’s what it is.

We love this little board. We SO do. Pone side is squared graph paper, and the other side is blank. There is a clip at the top which is a rubber and also a clip for the pen. Simple, neat and SO handy. I have a 5yr old girl, and she loves or draw and write. Constantly and endlessly. And I know she’s not alone in her obsession. But keeping up with it in terms of paper is hideousness – a problem which this board neatly...

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Not-So-Grim Reaper (and Best Childrens face paints. Ever.)
Nov01

Not-So-Grim Reaper (and Best Childrens face paints. Ever.)

So Boy (9) had a Halloween party this weekend. He was the only one who did, and as we don’t Trick & Treat, I was heaving a happy sigh of relief that only one costume scramble was on the horizon. An easy one, too, as he already knew what he wanted to be – the Grim Reaper.   Easy, thanks to a few oddly items rummaged from the dressing up supplies, and a fably new box of face paints from Snazaroo. Face paints are...

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