Ideas for Christmas Craft and Displays in Public Spaces – (recycling theme)

Merry Christmas to everyone. Here’s a few ideas for Christmas craft and decorations for display in public spaces….and the theme is recycling. All items here are made with recycled magazines, CDs, books, and even a living tree.   Christmas Trees made out of Magazines and books:   These are made from recycling well-used TV Guides: […]

How To Fold Origami 5-Pointed Stars

  After making a few of these stars you will be able to make them easily without my instructions. To get you started I have provided detailed step-by-step instructions with a few tips as well. First of all, we need to begin with a base shape of a pentagon. To learn how to make the […]

How To Make Trees (or Christmas Trees) Out Of Paperback Books

    This project is quite easy to do, once you get the knack of the folding, it’s just a matter of repeating the process. It is also cheap, as second-hand paperback books don’t cost much; the books I used were discarded from my local library. It was nice to be recycling, or up-cycling, these […]

Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer Christmas Cake

  “The piece de resistance”   Rudolph is an original cake design planned and constructed by Mum and I. He stands 44cm tall and his body is made from a rich fruit Christmas cake, with chocolate antlers/ears, chocolate tail, and chocolate covered candy canes for the legs, chocolate eyes, and a marshmallow covered in red […]

Chocolate Christmas Pudding Truffles

    These truffles are very simple to make and are a great way to use up any left over Christmas cake. The mashed up Christmas cake base of these truffles gives them a close textured fudge-like consistency, (just like cake-pops) and when covered in chocolate the Christmas cake tastes delicious. We used Whittaker’s 50% […]