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Easy Christmas Wreath Tutorial

Updated on 3rd December 2014 by Kate Williams | Leave a Comment

So, last week I saw my friend Louise and I was discussing the Christmas wreaths we made together and how mine had started getting pinned again on Pinterest.

“I don’t remember making those” she said.

“But we were round your house!” I said. “You liberated all the foliage!” The memory comes drifting back. And this dear reader, is the issue of when you do crafts after a couple of glasses of red wine. Still, at least we had the pictures to jog our memories!

Anyway, this got me thinking of how I could make a really quick wreath this year and this is the result! This easy Christmas wreath tutorial should have you with the finished wreath in around ten minutes and as it doesn’t require much to make it it’s super thrifty too, always handy at this time of year!

Easy Christmas Wreath Tutorial

 

Step One

make your own christmas wreathCut your foliage. I originally thought this was rosemary until my urban foraging trip earlier today. It’s not, but it’s still nice! Cut a few long stems of whatever plant you can find that looks suitably festive….

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Filed Under: Crafts for grown ups Tagged With: christmas, diy, easy Christmas wreath tutorial, thrifty

Mumsnet Crafts Blogs Round-up

Updated on 23rd January 2019 by Kate Williams | Leave a Comment

mumsnet bloggers networkBig whoops for me yesterday as I was asked to edit the crafts blogs round up for Mumsnet. Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of Mumsnet, apart from the fact that they are view wine drinking being essential to parenting as a Sophie the Giraffe or Calpol, they also took me on a nice adventure up to Downing Street and were very lovely when I nearly vomited on the Cameron’s nice cream carpet. Although they didn’t save me any booze for when I can drink properly again. Humph.

My theme for the round up is Thrifty Crafts for Adults and Children, I love all the craft blogs that I read and am always looking for new ideas myself so in a totally selfish way I thought I would aim for finding things I can also afford to try! Hey, what’s wrong with that?! …

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Filed Under: Crafts for grown ups Tagged With: craft, craft round up, mumsnet, mumsnet bloggers, thrifty

How to take your own pregnancy photos

Updated on 21st February 2020 by Kate Williams | 16 Comments

how to take your own pregnancy photosTaking pictures of my (ever expanding) bump wasn’t something I really planned on doing until recently. There are no pictures of me pregnant with The Toddler. Well, ok, I’ve found one, but it’s at about 14 weeks and I just look a bit like I’ve had dinner. I’m not super self conscious about my body, but I think that, like a lot of people, the idea of a lens concentrating on my stomach makes me feel like perhaps I shouldn’t have eaten that third penguin before lunch today.

Then the other day I was reading the ‘wish I took pictures like that’ blog Capture by Lucy and I noticed that she had a section on pregnancy photography and I thought, well, why not? I’m not overly planning on doing this again so it might be nice to have something to look back on. It’s not like I have to put them up in my front room. Although I umm… appear to be publishing them on my blog so strangers can look at my belly. Once again I fail to have thought this through properly, eh?! …

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: diy, photography, pregnancy, thrifty

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