29/12/11

24/12/11

Season’s Greetings

To all my readers:

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Disclaimer: The photo was shot by me, but neither the fireplace nor the dog belongs to us.

6/12/11

The Salt Dough Snowman

Winter time is a-coming. Time to make some decoration. How about tiny snowmen? Prepare a small amount of salt dough by mixing 1 Tablespoon of flour, salt and water together.

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Form three small balls and  stack them. Add broken off toothpicks as arms and nose. Mark the eyes with a toothpick.

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Let the snowman air dry (mine needed 2 days to get totally dry).

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When dry, you can paint the snowman with acrylic paint.

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Done! Now go on to make a tiny snowman army!

Other things you can do with salt dough:

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I didn’t come around to paint them.by now.

2/12/11

Upcycling Basket Weaving

Last Saturday we went to a basket weaving course organized by the city. We had the whole day to work on three recycling projects.

4 milk cartons become a flat basket envelope:

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12 pages of newspaper become a square basket with pointy edges…

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… or a rectangular basket with even edges.

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If you want to know more about the art of basket weaving with recycled material you can have a look at Lois Walpole’s blog.