Vintage Books to Modern Nursery Art

We, as a family have a big collection of childrens books.  The majority of them are newer, bought for my children, some are older, books that were mine and my husbands when we were little, and a few of them are quite a bit older, from when my parents and grandparents were small.

DIY Wrapped Photo Canvases

Wrapped photo canvasses are a gorgeous way to show your photos, unfortunately they're also ridiculously expensive.
Luckily, they're super easy to make, using just a few basic supplies, most of which I was able to find at Dollarama. In fact, each of these canvasses cost me just under $4.

Salt dough ornaments

Over the weekend we were on an ornament streak! We made our sparkle dough, some fancy snowflakes, and salt dough ornaments.

If you've never made salt dough, you have to try it. You seriously can't mess this up, even if you're craft inept. It's literally salt, flour and water mixed together, shaped, baked for two hours and then painted.

Sparkle dough ornaments

Winter is not my friend, and I tend to hibernate through it.  My kids though, are not the hibernating types.  And today, they were practically climbing the walls.

I figured it was a good day to try a new craft.

Fabric tea bag toy - tutorial

 

I made these little tea bags for S for Christmas and I lie how they turned out. They were a super simple project and took all of an hour to make a set of six.

DIY From Around the Interweb

I seem to have just two things on my mind lately, Christmas and my new home ( 23 more days!!!). Ive been scouring the web for DIY options for both and thought Id share a few of my favourites here.  Enjoy and happy crafting,


DIY Wreath Hanger

15 Minute Window Shade












Instagram Magnets (!!!)

Cake stand from an old plate

Me VS. The Pin - Handprint Snowflake Edition

I love hand prints and foot prints.  I put them on everything from plates, to pictures, to wall art, and I even have a set tattooed on my wrist. Any time I come across anything to do with prints, I pin them, and I've been waiting all year to recreate this one.  It was super simple and turned out great even with a wriggly eighteen month old.

The Pin

Mine

It was ridiculously simple as well, I filled clear plastic ornaments ( I got mine at Michaels) about a third of the way with white glitter "snow". Then painted each girls hand and stamped the print onto an ornament. Once it dried I painted no the faces. Super simple and adorable.