Gift wrapping - paper bow

Via Pinterest, paper bow pic tutorial

Christmas wrapping - Confetti bows

From Omiyage blogs

Autumn crafts - painted leaves

A painting exercise from Painted paper in the heart room, great art ideas for kids

Halloween craft - the haunted house - part II

Inspired by Mr Printables , made out of cardboard

Autumn crafts - the cars

Via Pinterest: Kifi es levendula

Halloween craft - the spider

From Huppie Mama

Very belated Easter post

These little carrots were too cute not to share on blogland, the tutorial is from this great YT channel MissouriQuiltCo

DIY birds transfer on a shirt

Tutorial and idea from Balamodanet

Happy New Year !

Clementine candle, tutorial on apartment therapy

For the rainy days

Bucket hat tutorial from Sew much ado

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

Dress and shirt tags

Origami dress tutorial from "How about orange"

Shirt tutorial from YT "zgrandmakaren"

Boys Month 2012 - Cooking chef costume

My boy is currently obsessed with cooking and little kitchenettes, he thus needed the proper outfit...

I used the tutorial for the Chef's hat from "Celebrate creativity" but instead of gathering the fabric at the base of the hat, I made pleats.

ABC bean bags

I used the following tutorial from the Crafty Cupboard (found via Pinterest) except that I couldn't paint the letters so I cut them out of some white fabric and sewed them on.

Barnedåb indbydelse

Inspired by the pop-up card city video tutorial on Howcast YT channel

Bunk bed decoration

We bought a bunk bed with a pirate theme for the kids' room, but we finally agreed that there was too much black for small children so decided to change theme and go for a "green-forestry" style instead, so I did some envelope pillow covers (tutorial from Crafty Gemini) and some loooooong green "sausage pillows" out of cheap blankets found at tiger.

Barbapapa en papier mache

This project from Nounou Bricabrac took us a week to complete with drying times for the paper and the paint where my son could also get involved , it was lots of fun and the result is amazing, I think.. :-)