My Creative Space

For four weeks I've been preparing and helping the children at school to create these little gifts for their Mums for Mothers Day. This week alone we made about 120 cupcakes! So my creative space has involved cutting paper and felt, sorting sequins, folding boxes, tying bows, and baking!

The cupcake on its own is a magnet!

And inside the box is one of these yummy vanilla cupcakes!

I got the recipe from here:



The inspiration and craft supplies for these gifts (including the mini patty pans and lolly hearts) were all from the brilliant Clever Patch. Have a Happy Mothers Day!

This Easter weekend

Hope you've had a lovely Easter! I have been sick with a head cold since Thursday night, and am only feeling better today. However, the lovely Jonathon has been looking after me, giving me massages and cooking an extravagant lamb roast yesterday. I have been sleeping a lot, even more than usual! The Jackster has been gaming, and visiting friends, and devouring heaps of chocolate. Good on him!

And now, I am about to launch myself into having a busy day, cleaning and crafting. I had to do some crafting first, so I made these cute bookmarks using Green Stack Chipboard and a Kaisercraft paper pad.
Love the little woodland motifs!

Happy holidays!

(This post is linked to The Idea Room. Lots of inspiring craft happening there!)

Easter Fun at School

The children at Kindy always make an Easter gift for their families, and this year the inspiration for the crafts came from Clever Patch They have an extensive range of craft supplies, and they were quick to send my order. Their site and catalogues have heaps of easy craft ideas too.

The children made these cute chick-in-the-egg cards (with a variety of pastel colours for the spots and card), and they made chick containers to hold chocolates (Cleverpatch use foam for the feet, but I thought these pipecleaner feet were even cuter!) The children made one chocolate for each person in their family. I always love hearing the kids exclaim "Happy Easter!" to their parents, as they run out of the classroom at the end of the term, and hand them their gift.

The kids also made some Easter hats for our end-of-term Easter party. They cut out a pre-drawn cone shape, glued four strips of bright coloured glossy paper on a slant, taped three matching tissue paper streamers at the top, stuck one big sticker in the middle and three at the bottom, and attached some hat elastic with masking tape. Easy and colourful!

We had a game of Duck, Duck, Goose too, but as it is Easter time, we called it Egg, Egg, Easter Bunny! What a barrel of laughs! Hope your Easter preparations are going well!

Pinwheels

The Pre-Primary kids made HUGE pinwheels at school. 

Mad Hatters Tea Party

I finally found some time to do some 'making'! Here are the final four cards for my Alice in Wonderland card sets. I know I've used the theme Mad Hatters Tea Party before, but I'm going to change the title of that earlier set to A Very Merry Unbirthday, because they were all about cake! This set is definitely about tea, so they win the title of Mad Hatters Tea Party. I'm loving all the little teapots and teacup stickers! They came all the way from Washington, from Jolly Good Tea & Gifts.




Now I just have to organise some packaging and stuff, and the cards will be ready to sell!