These are the creations the kids made at my little guys party, they were too wonderful to throw away so I cut them up and put them into our “blow paint envelopes” so they could keep their masterpieces. Here’s how we made the envelopes… BLOW PAINT ENVELOPES You will need: Envelopes Straws Ice cube tray –
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I do love organising a party, and especially for my little guy. Here’s a few of the things I did for his 4th birthday. The theme was blue this year. Everyone knows a party is really all about THE CAKE and my little guy loves chocolate, so we made this malteser chocolate cake. I saw
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So… I’ve had a lot of feedback about the book sculpture, I was motivated to try another one. This time I didn’t cut the spine away, I left it in tact and simply did the fold as here. You will need: I hardcover book (I used approx 750 pages) Your folding skills and some time.
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I love the smell of old books, I don’t like to see them go into the bin, so if you have an old hardback lying around that is no longer needed, try this easy idea to make your own book sculpture and continue the life of that beautiful book. So many beautiful shapes… You will
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So… one of my friends (Yahtzee Queen or YQ for short) told me that they play Yahtzee every night while dinner is cooking. Every weeknight? I couldn’t believe it … “Really?” I said, “Yep, we used to do it at my parents house when I was a kid and now WE do it, sometimes the
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Hello everyone, and thanks to Sarah Preston for having me guest blog on Tomfo. My friendship with Sarah goes way back in time, and when I think of her she always makes me smile. My pen name is Grace Lee. I am relatively new to the motherhood thing. Not new to families though – I
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This is one of my go-to weekday meals or bbq “bring a plate” dishes. My mum is gluten free so this recipe is also perfect to take when we all catch up as a family and it’s pretty healthy too!  While the frittata is cooking, dye the eggshells and plant some bird seeds in the
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We used the eggs from our Zucchini and Tomato Frittata to make this Dyed Eggshell Garden for Easter. While the frittatta was baking we got the things we needed to make this cute garden.   We cracked the shells ever so carefully, (usually my little guy loves to squash them with his hands so they
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Try this easy idea, using tracing paper and some black and white variations of our marble art post, we created these fab mason jar lights with battery powered tea lights. You will need: Kids artwork (we used our marble paintings) Tracing paper Ruler Knife Sticky tape Mason Jars (or something similar) Battery Powered tea lights
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This is a fun and easy thing to do with the kids. My little guy loved it. We made some fab pics and spent the day in the sun. One of my goals this year is to make more time to spend with my little guy and my big guy, we did this together on a
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An easy tutorial on making these DIY Keepsake Mason Jars. I saw this here a while ago and thought how easy…I wanna try that too! (Won’t the oil ruin the photo I thought?) It sounded too easy, oil, a photo and a mason jar? I snapped up some mason jars from here. I used the app Be
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This tradition first started in memory of the beautiful Jae. I got some beautiful paper bags from here and some battery operated tea lights from here and then we got a few people over and started setting up our night light gathering. We grabbed a bit of sand and a hand shovel and started filling up
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Working full time, as a mum, you can get a bit guilty about not spending enough time doing fun things with your kids. I’ve decided to do more cool stuff with my son, this is one of them we do together and there’s no cooking on the stove, so it’s not hot when you mix
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