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The environment is important but let’s not preach; choose to instead recycle, upcycle and create cool stuff for your home or garden.

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Christmas crafts with the kids

With a house move looming, messy making is off-limits — but that hasn’t stopped our festive creativity entirely. From simple paper chains and toilet roll reindeer to driftwood trees and branch-made reindeer, Christmas crafting with the kids has been all about small, meaningful projects. Working with wood remains my favourite, even when things have to…

Building, Crafting, and Imagining: Summer Adventures with My Little Engineers

There’s something deeply satisfying about building something with your hands and then watching it spring to life through play. My four-year-old is deep in a “build it” phase. Dens, caravans, planes, boats, if you ask him if he wants to make something, the answer is always yes. Outdoors? Even better. His two-year-old sister is right…

Plant pot markers

It was birthday season in our house, just a week between the two. As is tradition, we marked the occasion with a bit of guerrilla tree planting, using saplings we’ve nurtured from seeds collected over the past year. This time, we were lucky to be gifted a couple of ash saplings especially for the birthdays.…

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