Creative Jewish Mom has this simple tutorial on creating your own very funky, very colourful glasses using glitter glue and glass paint. They’re great for adding a bit of colour to your home, but would be absolutely perfect for weddings or other celebrations once painted to match the colour scheme. I have about 28 of these tealight holders from Ikea left over from our wedding (five years ago, yes, I am a hoarder!) that would be far more likely to [...]

A few weeks ago I received an email from Kailaasking if I could promote her event in Redfern, Sydney, I’ll let her do the talking… Fabric-a-brac is coming to Sydney! What is it you ask? It’s a fabric sale from lovers of projects, who just have too many projects (er, that would be me then). If you have piles of fabric in your wardrobe, in a cupboard, and you KNOW you’ll never get around to using it. Or you’re looking [...]

Recently I saw a beautiful picture of some “Salt Dough Gift Tags” on Pinterest. They immediately piqued my interest and I set about thinking up a tutorial with a slight twist on the original idea (look out for it next week!) but didn’t think much of it again. This morning, half way through baking my own gift tags, I decided to wander along to the original blog (which I hadn’t looked at previously) and see how her dough recipe might [...]

Food companies have recently woken up to the fact that a large portion of the population is trying to develop healthier life styles, and so have been modifying their product recipes to fit in with this, removing the excess fats, salts and sugars whilst at the same time preserving the taste that made those products popular in the first place. Or at least trying to… there’s been a couple that have let me down when they’ve released something with a [...]