I finally got around to getting the sunshine print I made for Ronan’s nursery printed out at ArtsCow and realised that I’d made a silly error in my original print, and hadn’t left enough of a border for framing. Yeah, not my smartest move. I’ve uploaded the new files, with the space for framing to the original post, so please download them there. I’ve also added an additional version of the “Happy” print with the US spelling of “gray”, so [...]

Jen from A Thousand Words created this amazing duvet/doona/quilt cover for her son, Daniel, using fabric markers on a plain white duvet… the best bit about it? Those are all Daniel’s drawings! Enlarged and dutifully traced by his mum in a project that took her more than twelve hours work to complete. This is such a wonderful way to preserve and display drawings, and the finished effect is so graphic and modern it looks like the kind of kooky bedding [...]

(If you downloaded the original file, please read the edit at the bottom of the page!) Last night I made up some cute prints to put up in Hercules’ corner of our room, I had originally planned on doing just one, but whilst I was picking up some undies for the kids yesterday afternoon The Temptations came on the shopping centre music, and I had a flash of inspiration that I couldn’t let go of! So now we have two [...]

When I was in the first year of school I remember making a Christmas card for my Mum, a big green hand print covered in sequins and glitter glue, I loved that card and was so proud when she displayed it all year around despite it being Christmas themed. I LOVE hand print art, it’s easy to do and creates a great snapshot in time of your little one, here’s a collection of some of my favourite body prints that [...]

On our first Christmas day together, my husband and I took a walk along the beach. I was a mess of emotions, it was a large collection of firsts, my first Christmas in Australia, my first experience of a southern hemisphere Christmas (this December marks my eighth and I still find it just as weird as I did that first year!), the first Christmas without the chaos of my Mum, my sisters and niece and my first Christmas with the [...]

“Check out this stunning artwork made entirely from potato prints!” is something I never thought I would say (or type?) but seriously, check out this stunning artwork made entirely from potato prints! Jordan and her family are only based in Paris for a year and obviously don’t want to spend too much on artwork or decorating their home, but still want to make it feel like someone lives there. Although you’d think “cut up potatoes, print them on paper” would [...]

I’ve been playing around with printable fabric recently, and have followed with great anticipation Curlypop’s journey to create something beautiful from a piece of fabric that she accidentally printed her Medicare statment on to. Cam over-printed a scan of one of her beautiful drawings to add more colour to the image, and sewed it up into a handy little pouch for those miscellaneous tissues and aspirin packets that lay around the bottom of every woman’s handbag. I love the process [...]

Digital photography is an awesome thing, I have gig upon gig of photos stored in hard drives and dead laptops, the not so awesome thing is that I am completely crap at printing off any photos. I printed my first photos this Christmas as a gift to my mother in law, I have no photos of the boys on display around my house, if it wasn’t for the obstacle course of toys that resides in my front room you wouldn’t [...]

This is less tutorial (it’s as simple as drawing on a plate) and more review, but I recently discovered these porcelain pens in Spotlight and I am completely in love. You Will Need One Porcelain pen – they’re made by “Pebeo” and I found them in my local Spotlight in the craft section with the regular ink pens, they had them in thick and thin, I’m using the thicker version (150). I Also have it on good authority that Lincraft [...]

I love the classic look of silhouette profiles, and they’re a great way to keep track of how your family’s features change over time, cheap and simple to do. You will need Black card Scrapbooking paper Frames – I also picked up some acylic paint to stain them black Sharp scissors or a craft knife A clear picture of the profile of your chosen person and a printer Lets get started Print out your photo – it doesn’t have to [...]