Neon & Pastel bird houses

Today I am sharing with you my neon & pastel bird houses I have started making for my Easter Table...

Easter Bird houses
Materials

• Six wooden craft birdhouses
• White undercoat paint
• Neon yellow paint
• Printed paper, (I used Kimono series 3 from Pleased to Meet)
• Rolls of Japanese washi tape from Superlovely
• PVA glue

Equipment

• Paint brush
• Craft knife
• Glue spreader

Easter Bird houses, how to

Paint house roof with white paint, and leave to dry. Paint base, perch and underside of roof and edges in neon yellow paint and leave to dry.
Starting on the outside edge of the roof, carefully stick lines of masking tape to roof. Trim off any excess.


Carefully make a pattern for the front and back of the house. Trace the pattern on to printed paper and carefully cut out. Stick a ring sticker where perch hole needs to be and cut out centre. Apply pva glue to front of house and place printed paper cut out piece on to front of house, carefully smooth down paper. Repeat with back of house. (I used a ruler to get into the point at tip of roof).



Using a craft knife carefully cut out hole in centre of house.
Make a pattern for the sides of the house and cut out in printed paper. Apply pva glue to side of house and place printed paper cut out piece on to side of house, carefully smooth down paper.(I used a ruler to get under the roof) Repeat with other side.
Coat house with PVA glue in sections and leave to dry - this ensures that they do not stick to the surface you are drying them on.




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Featured in C'est Dit!

Today I wanted to share with you the lovely little feature in French magazine C'est Dit of my bunny jars...



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Lombok £250 giveaway winner!

My contest ended yesterday and I just picked a winner using random.org and I am delighted to announce the winner of the Lombok £250 giveaway is...

Oh sow gawjess, who is loving the Moorish iron windlights from Lombok .

Congratulations Oh sow gawjess, you will receive a £250 store credit to Lombok.

Thank you to all of you sweets that entered, to my loyal followers and new friends.

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Making the switch to Bloglovin

"Earlier this week Google announced it was to withdraw its Google Reader service due to declining interest in the RSS content aggregator.

The Keep Google Reader Running petition on Change.org generated more than 400,000 page views since Wednesday.
At least eight related petitions have been started on the site since Wednesday, several of which also have thousands of signatures.
“People were clearly shocked and dismayed about Google’s decision, and they came to Change.org to make their voices heard.” said Charlotte Hill, a spokesperson for the website.
Google made the announcement in its company blog, saying: "There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we are pouring all of our energy into fewer products,"

Looking for a new way to follow and keep updated on your favourite blogs?

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Just add all the blogs you want to follow, and then you’ll get notified every time one of your favorite blogs has written a new blog post."

Bloglovin' have made an exceptionally great little tool on their site, allowing anyone who has joined up to sync their GFC blogs with Bloglovin' in one easy step.

Follow the instructions to import your followers to Bloglovin' HERE
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Neon glittered eggs

For this year's Easter tree, that I am in the process of making, I need some new eggs to hang on it. So I have started glittering plastic eggs in this years colour palette of grey, peach, copper, coral, bright green, neon pink and neon yellow.



Glitter eggs
Tools and Materials

• Hanging plastic eggs
• Gold egg hangers
• Neon Glitter
• PVA glue
• Neon paint
• Neon pink bakers twine
• Small paint brush

Glitter eggs, How-to step by step


Start by carefully removing the plastic stopper from the plastic eggs. Then brush PVA glue on to top of eggs. Sprinkle coloured glitter onto glued area of eggs. Tap gently to remove any excess glitter, and leave to dry. Push egg hangers into hole at top of eggs and thread bakers twine thread through loop in egg hanger, and knot to secure. Brush PVA glue onto rest of eggs and spoon glitter onto eggs, covering entire surface. Tap gently to remove any excess glitter, hang and leave to dry.





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Sweet Magazine

I am loving the brand new Sweet magazine brought to us by the publishers of the popular crafty Mollie Makes magazine. With the strap line Sweet! Cakes, Bakes and Pretty Makes magazine.

"Projects, ideas and inspiration for any cake maker or baker who wants to create beautiful cakes. Make cakes so beautiful they could hit the catwalk, cakes that taste as good as they look and easy craft projects to accessorize your cakes and kitchen!"

In the second issue there are beautiful dream cakes and pretty Spring sweet treats to make like berry tartlets, the prettiest pink éclairs the cutest cake pops and a good helping of chocolate in time for Easter…
Along side the lovely recipes there are interviews and recipes from the creative kitchens of Lilli Vanilli, Mich Turner, Edd Kimber, Annie Bell, and The Biscuiteers. With some fabulous inspiration to make the kitchen the heart and soul of your home including décor ideas like the lovely crochet tea cosy and shopping ideas to make it your favourite place.
My perfect kind of magazine!





So I was thrilled to have my bunny jars included in the second issue...



Tutorial found here

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Pastel & Neon paper chain garland

I love paper garlands so for Easter I have started to make a pretty pastel and neon one using a lace paper punch to fit in with my colour palette...

Easter decoration: Pretty paper chain garland

Tools and Materials

• Pastel paper
• Neon paper
• Double sided sticky tape
• Simplicity paper punch - Daisy strip

How-to, step by step


Simply cut strips of paper using the paper punch. Carefully place a piece of double-sided tape on one end of the rectangular strip of paper and form a loop by curling the other end under. Adhere the other end to the taped end. Get another rectangular strip, place a piece of tape on one end, insert the end through the first loop and join the ends of the second loop together. Repeat above steps for as many rectangular strips needed to form the length of garland you require, alternating the colours of the strips you use.








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