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DIY Easter Egg Flowers

If your looking for some last minute DIY Easter  ideas, here's a quick and easy little tute for you. These little egg carton flowers would make sweet little favours for your Easter guests, or you could make some as gifts for any friends or family you might be visiting! I made two for our Easter brunch table, and it only took me about 20 minutes. This is also a fun one to do with the kiddies, and really....who says you can only do this for Easter? It would make a cute little decoration for any time of the year!

Hope your enjoying your long weekend!

Xo

Zina

DIY Butterfly Bell-Jar

I saw this gorgeous butterfly bell jar in Design Sponge at Home. But it's made with real butterflies and they are really expensive, and delicate to boot! But i loved the look of the jar. Not thinking i could ever make one, i forgot it for awhile until i stumbled on some cute little fake butterflies at House and Garden. My sister's birthday was coming up, and i remembered the bell jar i first fell in love with and decided to try and do something similar for my sisters birthday gift! So here's my version of a DIY Butterfly Bell-jar....

Oh....and how could i forget!? You need a bell jar! 

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Step 3: Glue fabric to foam, and then hot glue fabric covered base to the bottom of the bell jar. 

IMPORTANT: Just make sure the bell jar glass top fits over the foam base once it is covered!

ETA: Glue your covered foam base to the bottom of the bell jar using your hot glue gun.

 Step 4: Again with the hot glue gun, start gluing your butterflies to the tops of the wire.

Step 5: Decide where you want your butterflies to sit and using a wire cutter, trim your wire accordingly. Place your wire in the foam base and then add more glue to the base to secure it in place.

Step 6: Add your message. I hand drew mine onto kraft paper and coloured it in using a white gel pen. I then cut it out and hot glued the bottom of the paper to the base.

Put the top of your bell jar back on and ta-da! You now have a gorgeous statement piece for your table. Or you can give it away as a gift....mine went to my sister for her birthday. Although, once it was complete, i fell in love with it and it was really hard to give away! Shhhh....don't tell!

Love Zina xoxo

 

DIY Valentines Coffee Cup

 Here's another little Valentines DIY for you! 

You can make it into a child-friendly treat too, and fill it with hot chocolate and marshmallows...yum!

 This is what you'll need. You can use any kind of paper to cover your cup. I used book pages, but newspaper, cute scrapbooking paper, or even one of your kids drawings would be cute!

What you do:

 

Once you've covered your cup, decorate it with cute labels and love messages! I just stuck mine on with double sided sticky tape .

There you have it... has coffee ever been so cute?

 

Only 4 days left till Valentines!

Easy DIY Valentines treats

Hi there! Valentines is quickly approaching and if your anything like me you've spent the whole year thinking of great ideas that you simply must do next Valentines Day...only to find yourself out of time yet again. So here's just a few really simple, really easy ideas for you to make for your loved ones.

Here i've used an old pasta sauce jar, some banana lollies from the shop, a tag and twine...most things you probably already have! The hearts on the jar were simply punched out of some leftover contact paper from the kids school books!

Or, if the mood fits, you could put "You're driving me bananas!" or "You make me Bananas!" . The possibilities are endless ;)

For this idea you could fill any old zip lock bag with heart shaped lollies. Easy peasy :)

Here's another cute idea...but this one is a gift that gives back! Yep, if you play your cards right he'll be giving you the chocolates!

 And last but not least...how 'bout some honey, honey?

Leave this cute little syrup jug (we got ours from Spotlight for just a few bucks) next to his bowl of cereal in the morning. Or the toast. Or whatever he has his honey on...

So there you have it....quick and super easy ideas you can use for the Mr. or the kids!

Later this week i'll be posting a Valentines DIY ...again with the emphasis on easy :)

Father's Day crafting ideas.....

We had lots and lots of ideas for Father's Day that ranged from crafting to cooking. But alas, time was not our friend and we didn't get any of them done. Lucky we have a very crafty friend who managed to do some very cute mini projects and is happy for us to share them on our blog.

All of Zina's projects can be made last minute and most of them are just using nice patterned papers, tags, envelopes and twine. Zina will be sharing tutorials for most of her projects on her messyart blog. Her are some of her ideas....

For breakfast, cook dad some French toast with bacon, banana and maple syrup and add a little 'BEST DAD EVER' banner to the top.

For all those dad's that have to work on Father's Day, why not put together a super cute lunch box with lots of reminders that he his the BEST dad!

Instead of just wrapping his favourite sandwich in glad wrap, tie a serviette and twine around it. Cut out a paper heart or '# 1 DAD' and glue them onto a plain tag.

Put some chips in a glad bag and add a funny label. We love Zina's idea of using corn chips with the label saying 'Love from you corny kids'!

Get the kids to write some little notes of love to their dad and put them into an envelope. Zina used some tags for her kids to write the notes on and helped them by starting a sentence for them eg: 'I love you dad because......'. We are sure every dad would love to recieve these very special notes.

Add another tag to just let dad know that he really is number 1!

Music CD's or movie DVD's are always a great present for dad. Instead of wrapping it, pop it into a decorate brown paper bag.

Dad can never have enough little love notes, get the kids to draw a picture and write why the love their dad. Put them in a decorated an envelope and we are sure that he will keep them forever.

Tags are always a quick and easy and can be a great alternate to cards which can get quite expensive.

Make dad his favourite cake and present it on a cake stand with some handmade bunting.

Bunting is really easy to make and Zina is going to put a tutorial on how she made hers on her blog.

Set a nice table for dad on Father's Day by simply adding some cool moustache cups, which you can find the tutorial for here, coloured serviettes, a few flowers and all of dad's favourite food.

Enjoy a Father's Day brunch with just your family or invite some friends around to enjoy this special day together!

FRENCH TOAST RECIPE

There are lots of french toast recipes out there but this is a yummy rustic one from Bec's sister Julia.

Add equl parts of milk and cream to a bowl {we used 1 cup of each}, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon. Lightly whisk. Dip a thick piece of bread into the mixture and then place into a fry pan. Lightly brown each side. Serve with crispy bacon, banana and maple syrup. Enjoy!

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Father's out there!

Love

Bec & Tammi

 

 

 

Beautiful Bottles & Jars....

After spending much time 'pinning' on Pinterest, we have come across so many gorgeous photos of beautiful bottles.  It has renewed our love of collecting bottles and now we are on the continuous hunt for more.

Here are some of our favourite photos:

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Gorgeous aren't they? But if you can't find any coloured bottles or jars, you could colour them yourself. Recently we made some cute turquoise jars for a high tea and used them as vases.

We used this tutorial and found the glass paint, paint thinner and jars at Spotlight.  They were quite easy but practice does make perfect!  Just a tip, make sure that you leave them in the oven after baking them until they are completely cool.

Love

Bec & Tammi

 

 

 

Cute tutorials

It is always fun to find super cute ideas on the internet. But it is even better when some generous person has taken the time to do up a DIY tutorial for us to use. We love these fun DIY tutorials from Elizabeth from Swanky Press.

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Head on over to Swanky Press and also check out Elizabeth's gorgeous range of invitations.

Love

Bec & Tammi

DIY Dress Up's!

Having a Woodland or Garden Party for your little one?  Then why not dress them up?  How adorable are these animal costume's?  These are seriously cute - we hope your sitting down!

 

This owl costume is totally swoon worthy and, you can make it yourself!  Head over to Mom Inc Daily for their DIY tutorial.

 

Give the Victoria's Secret Angels a run for their money with these amazingly cute wings!  As Rachel Zoe would say "I die"!  Make Alitas has the the full tutorial.  

 

How scrumptious would your little man look in this squirrel costume?  Gorgeous!  Full DIY details at Mom Inc Daily.

Happy crafting!

Love

Tammi & Bec

 

 

 

Rose Cake Tutorial

When we stumbled across this Rose Cake Tutorial from Amanda at I Am Baker we knew we had to share it with you all!  How gorgeous!  We're sure it will become an icon, taking centre stage along side the now famous Ruffle Cake.

Amanda also gives a tutorial on making a vertical layer cake for extra effect.

 

Happy baking!

Love

Bec & Tammi