Birthday Party IV - pirat theme paper eye patch

A little overview of how I did the pirat eye patch

Birthday Party III - pirat theme goodie bag

The theme for the birthday at the "Børnehave" was the pirat.

The goodie bag is inspired by the DIY from Waterfall creative, I added two pics here to show how I incorporated the image on a A4 sheet and where I taped it on the back and at the bottom.

Birthday Party II - fox theme goodie bag

The foxes goodie bags

Very much inspired by a goodie bag we received at one of my good friends party here in copenhagen, unfortunately I don't know the brand, but basically it's made of a simple creme fabric with cute animal prints.

I used the technique of the freeze paper to paint the foxes 

Birthday Party I - fox theme garland

We celebrated our 4-year old's birthday in February, here come some posts related to birthday party goodies :-)

The theme of the birthday with family and friends was the fox. We made those cute little paper foxes for a garland

My little DIY in pictures

DIY birds transfer on a shirt

Tutorial and idea from Balamodanet

Happy New Year !

Clementine candle, tutorial on apartment therapy

Xmas biscuits

"Cacao" biscuits, a nice mix between brunkager and biscuits de noel ! Recipe here: Dans ma toute petite cuisine.

Advent calendar 2012

For the rainy days

Bucket hat tutorial from Sew much ado

Ikea hack - magnetic board

Well it didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it. I painted the white side of the board with black magnetic paint ( 5 coats!) and then painted it green and white, but I didn't dare give more than one coat of white for fear that the magnetic "effect" would weaken..

Some more ice creams

The knight's cape tutorial

Further to my previous post and the great "Costume box" online class, here comes a quick visual tutorial to make in no time a cape for my knight :-)

You will need to fold in half a piece of fabric with the dimensions herebelow

Anne shows how to sew the cape with lining, it looks gorgeous and is actually easier to do than without, because then one has to hem all the sides to give the cape a "finished" look.

In the end I added a button and an elastic as closing mechanism but it could be anything

The knight's crown tutorial

I just enrolled in my first craftsy class two days ago called "the Costume box" by Anne Weil. It was a fantastic series of explanatory videos to make your own costumes for boys and girls, with a very cheerful teacher who gives tons of tips along the way. I can warmly recommend it, she has plenty of easy to do projects made for the busy moms that we all are :-)

One of the projects I completely fell for was the knight costume, I cooked up a quick little visual tutorial, mainly to make myself some pointers to do it again in the future, but for more detailed explanations you can watch the class for only 10USD, totally worth it.

The idea is to use a piece of soft cardboard (ex: cereal box) dimensions required: 40x9 cm

And cut the following shape out of it:

Then we sew it to a piece of fabric and trim

tip: glue the fabric to the cardboard first so that it stays in place

Then sew the elastic 

And decorate

Paint on t-shirt with freezer paper

We painted on both sides of the t-shirt with the reverse image of the P on the back, I like the kind of "rough" look of it.

Craft with kids - sticky exercise

Love, love, love this website - no time for flash cards - where you can find fun and easy activities to do with your kids by age and a section to teach them the alphabet and the numbers.

We've tried the  toddler butterfly craft with the shapes of a train and a car, it was a sucess (^-^)

My lille limón

My lille limón, a new webshop that has just opened this summer, with a fantastic selection of products for babies/toddlers/children and their environmentally conscious mothers, fond of cuteness :-)

Here you can organise your party or find the perfect gift

Boys Month: Boden T-shirt DIY - the Pteranodon

A friend of mine introduced me to these super cool t-shirts from Boden, I especially liked the one with the dinosaur walking in the streets of London, so here is my quick DIY using freezer paper to make the skyline.

So I used the drawing from Arne Jacobsen

Dress and shirt tags

Origami dress tutorial from "How about orange"

Shirt tutorial from YT "zgrandmakaren"