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| Oh Sew you don't!
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Posted 9:13 AM on Mon-3-Sep-2012
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When you don't own a sewing machine due to it being a health risk to anyone in the surrounding area, most prominently yourself, you dread the school notice popped up on the bench which reads "school spirit week next week". Argh! That only means one thing. Getting creative. And when you can't sew - that is creative with a capital C, bold, underscored, highlighted and made into italics! It's not like I can just quickly take in one of my t-shirts or fashion a bit of scrap material into a tie. I really need to get my thinking cap on at times like these - or do I? Thankfully, being very aware, and spending a little too much time on Pinterest lately, I know that like Googl
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| Creative Juices are starting to flow again
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Posted 3:36 PM on Mon-2-Jul-2012
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After almost 3 years on creative holiday since having our wee boy, the creator inside me is itching to get out again. Everywhere I look I am being inspired by little bits and bobs. I especially like easy peasy home decor that is a little quirky and have recently found a great website on facebook that has cool, cheap, easy and effective ideas that I keep banking up to do "one day".Am always on the lookout for great different ideas for crafts especially home crafts and crafts for kids/by kids...This is my latest creation while in New York for three months...This is just the start of a new creative period in my life I think and now with a wee boy I can explore and create all sorts of
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| Things I love
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Posted 11:21 AM on Thu-21-Jun-2012
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As a SAHM to 3 kids and a Nanny to 2 babies I need to find things I love and things for me too. That all important balance has become more and more important the busier I get. So what do I like? What do I love? How do I get that balance? Well I love crafting, like digital scrapbooking (of my kids, of the babies for learning stories and of other family stuff and of course stuff about me and my husband). I am working on a baby book about me. There were very few photos taken of myself when I was a baby. I was the second child born to lovely hard working but poor parents who had a broken camera when I was born. So there are not many pho
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| Knutty Knitters!
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Posted 11:24 PM on Sun-16-Oct-2011
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I have found a close friend that has been lost for a while. Well no, my 13 year old hid them. Knitting Needles! Picking up my needles, I search around in the games cupboard for some wool/string. I find a giant clump that I had saved for some squares! Grabbing the wool I capture before my daughter can hide it also. Time for knitting! Because of my daughters bad attitude towards knitters I want to teach her to get motivated and start knitting! Does anyone have any patterns, tips, tricks or stories to share about how they learnt to knit or taught their kids? My mother taught us as it was compulsory. We were not well off and had to make and sometimes sell our creations.Jo
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| Kids fingerpainting at Aotea Square this Saturday
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Posted 2:26 PM on Thu-8-Sep-2011
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Let your wee ones paint the town red. And blue. And green, yellow, and orange with purple spots.Calling all parents – discover the hidden artist in your littlies from 10.30am to 12noon on 10 September in Aotea Square at a free, paint-your-heart-out event to launch the ASG Parent and Child Show Auckland.Thereʼll be a HUGE, 4A0-sized canvas (thatʼs 2378mm x 1682mm big!) set up with all the paints, brushes, stamps, and other paraphernalia needed to get your wee ones daubing, smearing, splodging, and splattering on a grand scale.“This is definitely one to wear your old clothes to!” says Dona White, mother of three and CEO of North Port Events, who organises the ASG Parent and
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| Joy Of Motherhood
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Posted 3:25 AM on Wed-31-Aug-2011
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Well put the laundry down, ignore those dishes and put all thoughts about nappies aside for a while. Tonight i've indulged in one of the more rewarding joys of motherhood, i'm making a costume, completely absorbed in a world of crafting, with needle and thread and an assortment of material i'm truely in my element, and the best thing about this is that it really doesn't matter what the end result looks like, because my little girl will think i'm totally awesome just for making it. Sure i'll be tired when my alarm goes off, but the thought of the light in my daughters face when she sees the costume is spurring me on.And here is the finished product.
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| Paper Bag Hat
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Posted 7:35 PM on Tue-12-Jul-2011
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I think any time is a good time for something a little silly - and this hat suits silly quite well!First find yourself a paper bag, try it for size to see if it will fit your head, if it does then it can be a hat that you can wear – if it does not fit you then make it for your cat or a teddy bear - it might last a little longer on the teddy bear! Then find some things that can be attached to paper. Glitter, stickers, paint, feathers, and rose petals all work.Roll the bottom of the paper bag up to make a stylish and sturdy brim, shape the crown by pushing it in a bit and it will start to look slightly less like a paper bag, especially of you squint your eyes and turn your head on
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| Paper Plate Ladybug Puppet
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Posted 9:07 PM on Mon-20-Jun-2011
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This is a good craft for little hands as the pieces are quite large and not too fiddly. The grown up crafters can prepare the cut outs and then hand it all over for the child crafters to do the painting and glueing.You will need 2 paper plates, black construction card, 2 googly eyes, some red paint and glue.Cut two sets of legs from a sheet of black card. I laid the paper plate over the card and traced an outline of the side of the plate to give me the size I needed.Glue the legs on opposite sides of the top edge of one of the plates. Allow to dry. Turn the second plate over and glue the edges of both plates together. You could use a stapler to attach the plates and legs together. Cut
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| Gettin' Creative!
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Posted 10:42 PM on Wed-1-Jun-2011
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This weekend I plan to dig out my painting shirt, drops cloths and get creative in the kids room. I'm going to paint a tree on the wall! I got these gorgeous bird vinyl wall stickers for $5 and so I'm going to paint a tree and some branches for them to sit on. The walls in the kids room are cracked and paint chipped from the earthquake and so thought.. what the heck! I'll make it better. And a change is as good as a holiday right? This bleedin' house is making me go nuts so I want some positive changes. And thanks to google, I found these nifty instructions... love the part about watercolour pencils, now that's a GREAT tip! Outl
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| Egg Carton Christmas Tree
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Posted 10:18 AM on Mon-20-Dec-2010
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School holidays have started - time to keep little hands busy. Hand over your egg cartons to them and help them create this recycled Christmas tree.Cut out the egg cartons as pictured first, and then get the children painting. Glue the painted cartons onto some backing paper and the tree is created. Then decorate with whatever you have handy. We had tinfoil, so we scrunched some up into little balls and also made a star with rolled up bits.For all the step by step photos, check out the extended post on my site @ Egg Carton Christmas TreeCraft, craft, craft,Sarah Craftylockshttp://www.papercraftsforchildren.com
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