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Christmas Wrapping
It is time to get serious about Christmas wrapping! A fun way to organise it is to pick a colour theme and then get all your paper, tags and other bits and pie...
Christmas Baubles
If ever you have time to spare (lots of time) you can make tiny things out of paper and put them inside clear glass baubles. This is a task that requires a lot...
Christmas Crackers
Any good craft supplier will stock the carboard tubes and the snaps that you need to make your own Christmas crackers. I used old book pages with music on them...
Christmas Angels
Already the Christmas decorations have started to appear in the City so I have started my preparations in earnest too! This year I am making Christmas angels fr...
Paper Lanterns
I have been making miniature paper lanterns out of atlas paper and attaching wire loops so that they could be hung up as decorations. It’s never too early...
Bookmobile
I finished this at the weekend – with very sticky fingers and lots of orphaned book pages all over my desk!
Tiny Felted Nests
As an adjunct to my vintage paper projects I have been making tiny felted birds’ nests by using recycled jumper sleeves and scraps of wool. To keep the c...
New Gift Tags
I have been making some new gift tags, some which continue on the old atlas theme, and others which are black and white.
Things to to with an old Atlas
The pages of old atlases are really good for folding and making shapes as the randomly varied colours mean that no two objects will be the same. You can use the...