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23rd April is St Georges Day – the patron saint of England. Unlike our Irish, Welsh and Scottish kinfolk we don’t have a national holiday, although there was a time (around 15th Century) when it was bigger than Christmas! However if you are feeling patriotic, here’s our salute to the red and white colours of […]
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Today is RED NOSE DAY.. a day dedicated to fun and frivolity in the name of a good cause AKA Comic Relief. The charity was set up by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill writer) 25 years ago (makes me feel old!) … and since then has raised over £600,000,000 for good causes by entertaining people. We […]
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Inspired by the colourful Day of the Dead Mexican Celebration (on 1st November), we think these Halloween Printable Garland Skulls Decoration by TheDollCityRocker are a brilliantly colourful alternative for Halloween.
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So for the final DIY of our Pearl and Earl Halloween Papier Mache / Decoupage series we (and by that I mean my kids) decided to create something a little different! You can decoupage your Papier Mache Halloween Cat in much the same way as the Halloween Bat Tutorial. However to show you something a […]
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Following on from my Halloween Bat post and Part 1 of the DIY yesterday, you will now be ready to Decoupage your Bat or Cat. To do this I created and used my own Halloween paper covered in bats, but you can use any old or new papers that you like (they dont have to […]
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