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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: […]
Posted in Christmas, Christmas, Craft, Festive and Celebrations, Paper Crafts
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 […]
Posted in Christmas, Craft, Festive and Celebrations, Paper Crafts
Pepparkakor (Gingerbread Biscuits) Decorated with Royal Icing
Pepparkakor is a traditional Swedish recipe. These Scandinavian spicy biscuits are traditionally served on St Lucia Day, which is a celebration of light on the longest night of the year. St Lucia Day is one of the biggest Christmas-time celebrations in Sweden and is held on the 13th December. This date was unknown […]
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Festive and Celebrations, Icings and Fillings
Seasonal Fridge-Art: ‘Sumer is Icumen In’
Here’s another one of Mum’s seasonal Fridge-art installments. These pop-up on her fridge from time to time, with art or verses usually spelled out in magnetic scrabble tiles. I never know what is going to pop-up and when I stayed with Mum in early summer I discovered this… Right now you are […]
Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
Christmas Decorations
This year sees a gorgeous selection of Christmas decorations available. Here are a few of the ones I like (and trust me, I have done a lot of looking about (which I will term as ‘shopping research’) to bring you this list!) 3-D LIGHT-UP STAR I just love this night-light shaped as […]
Posted in Christmas, Craft, Featured Products, Festive and Celebrations
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