Craft Resolutions for 2024
New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Crafters Setting New Year’s Craft Resolutions is a great way to hit the New Year running. Craft Resolutions, Using up the craft stash… This year we have set ourselves a challenge of “using up the craft stash”. This entails limiting new purchases and finishing ongoing projects-including old ongoing projects! Obviously, some purchases will be made whether it is an essential item to finish a project (I do however currently have a ton of half used glues?!) or something just irresistible. What are the benefits of “using up”? By doing this we hope to… Accountability for Craft Resolutions Accountablilty is so important for New Year’s and Craft…
Christmas Cocktail Ideas
Cheers to these Christmas Cocktail Ideas! Have some creative fun whilst celebrating this year with some of these Christmas cocktail ideas. If Christmas and the holiday season isn’t the time to try some cocktails I don’t know when is! Simple Christmas cocktail ideas Christmas Cocktail Ideas Candy Cane Cocktail What you need To decorate Step by step Candy Cane Vodka You need to create the vodka at least 24 hours before you need it. First take your candy canes and crush them. Pour them into a jar with vodka and let it sit for 24hrs. Ratios of sweet candy cane to vodka is up to you but you want…
Felt Christmas Decorations
A Christmas DIY Felt Christmas decorations are a great creative make this holiday season. Updated December 2023 If you are looking for a crafty way to make Christmas decorations which are cuddly cute and totally unique this may be the post for you. If not we also have a whole host of other Christmas craft ideas. How to use felt to create Christmas decorations Felt decorations are a simple and effective way to create a Christmas feel. You could make a whole collection of decorations to a theme, a trend or even just a selection of Christmas icons. What do you need to create felt Christmas decorations? First up…
How to create a DIY countdown calendar for Christmas
12 days of Christmas Advent Calendar A Christmas DIY Countdown Calendar is a great way to spread the celebration and festive cheer for longer! Updated Dec 2023 Christmas Countdown Calendar I created this particular calendar to countdown the 12 days of Christmas. The 12 days of Christmas officially go from Christmas Day to Epiphany Eve, which is the 5th of January, ending in a large feast day of Epiphany on the 6th (which is the day the Christmas decorations must all come down too)! However you could use the same ideas for any countdown period you wanted to celebrate. Why create a calendar? I wanted to keep the festive…
Gift Guide… for Dogs
A dog is for life not just for Christmas…but Christmas is also for dogs not just for humans! A gift guide for dogs to help your think of pawfect presents for your pups! Updated December 2023 As mums to three pups, we are always try to think of new ideas for Christmas and Birthday presents. Below are some of the ideas we have had both simple and slightly more creative… All of the gift ideas are aimed for a range of dog personalities but you might appreciate some of them yourself! Gift Guide for Dogs Getting in the festive spirit For the playful dog The hungry pup Adventurous spirits…
Gift Guide for creatives
The perfect gifts for bakers, makers and dog mums too This gift guide is broken down into the three things we love most. Baking, crafting and doggies! Updated December 2023 These gifts are my suggestions for the perfect presents for any occasion, whether it is a Birthday, Christmas or even just a little treat! The links are mainly aimed at a UK shopping audience but obviously some links will work internationally as will the ideas. Happy shopping! Baker Gift Guide Perfect gift ideas for your baker, cook or chef loved one… Crafter Gift Guide For hand crafted gifts check out our crafted gifts post or for gifts for a…
Christmas Craft Ideas
Craft ideas to get you in the festive spirit Christmas Craft Ideas are a great way to get in the mood for Christmas. Updated December 2023 When do you get in the mood for Christmas? At home we definitely aim for the 1st of December with decorations and Christmas cheer but it just seems to get earlier and earlier each year! This year is a little different for us as we are stuck in a caravan post flood from Storm Babet. But when times are tough the Christmas sparkle is even more important! Tis the season If you are a crafter-for yourself, sale or gifts-you often find yourself crafting…
Christmas Design Ideas
Help for your Christmas DIYs This list of Christmas design ideas will help spark your creativity all season long! Updated December 2023 We love doing crafts over the holidays whether it is fun activities with the family or more sophisticated items for sale. Sometimes it can be difficult to think of ideas for Christmas and Holiday icons so check out our list of themes below if you are in need to spark your imagination. Be sure to check out our post here with lots of craft project ideas. If you are after theme ideas to help spark social media posts be sure to check my post here on my…
Review of SMART Majority Chocolatier diploma
Developing new sweet skills in Chocolate Taking a Chocolatier diploma is a great idea to expand your creativity and repertoire as a baker. If you have been thinking about expanding your skills you may of looked at online courses including ones by a company called SMART Majority. After seeing a Wowcher for a Chocolatier course we thought we would give it a go! Basics of the Chocolatier Diploma This SMART Majority course claims to take you from basics to advanced in just 12 modules. By covering everything from the understanding of bar to bean to specific recipes. We learnt everything from the history of chocolate to the best way…
What ‘Food’ day is it today?
A compendium of food and craft related ‘days’ to celebrate throughout the year! Ever woken up and wondered what food day is it today? Or perhaps you run a social media page and sometimes struggle with thinking of the right foodie based content. Well fear no more! I have scoured the internet, calendars and a great page I found aptly called Days of the Year and collated a list of food/foodie inspired events happening throughout the year! Below you will find each month with any moving events or monthly themes at the top followed by the days of the month. January Veganuary month Soup month Oatmeal month Burns night 1st…