How To Make Snow Globes

This is a cheap and cheerful craft that you can do with bits and pieces found around the home. You will need: 1 jar – you can use glass, but if you have little ones, acrylic is better. 1 teaspoon of glycerin, or if you can’t locate it – baby oil. a hot glue gun [...]

Gifts For Children 6 To 12 Years Of Age

Continuing on from Gifts For Children 5 And Under, I have created a list of eco-friendly or at least active toys for children 6 and up. Some are for children who are closer to 6 and others are for children closer to 12 or above. These toys are very much more appreciated in our household [...]

Gifts For Children 5 And Under

Every birthday or Christmas our children get flooded with gifts. This year I wanted to make sure the gifts were eco friendly, fun and non toxic. So I have compiled a list of toys that meet this criteria and look fun for young children. But I am going to need your help as well. If [...]

To Santa Or Not To Santa

  The big fat man in the red suit, red nose, ruddy cheeks, and a snowy white beard…. The modern  iconic symbol of Christmas. Invented by Coca-Cola. It would seem that many people today, have actually forgotten the true origins of Christmas, that is the Birth of Christ. But regardless of whether or not you [...]

11 Gifts That Keep On Giving

We were asked what we’d like to receive for Christmas this year, and it occurred to us, that there is nothing at all materially that we’d truly want. A Christmas spent with Family and good Friends would be all we ask for. It made us think about the gifts we were giving to others – [...]

How To Make A Glittery Pinecone Wreath

This is what’s on our door! We’ve got a she-oak tree across the road from us,that has kindly dropped an abundance of pine cones (in winter) so we collected them, originally used them to celebrate the winter solstice, now we’re upcycling them into a wreath! You will need a dozen or so pine cones Craft [...]

Handmade Giftwrap

We’re teaching our eldest that while Christmas is a lovely time for receiving presents, the act of giving feels equally if not more rewarding. We’ve been busily making gifts for family members like recycled crayons, stationery caddies, and lots of bits and pieces using bits and bobs we’ve got around the home. We’ve even potted [...]

How To Make Personalised Baubles

We’re starting a tradition in our family, each year we make a special decoration for each of our children to go on the tree. With the hopes that as they get older, and leave home, they’ll be able to take their own, very personal, very special collection of Christmas decorations to start their own tree [...]