Category: Handmade Gifts

• Whilst serving a very important purpose, this gift also looks super cute and would look great on the wall of any home. 
• This would be quite easy to make, if you had a spare piece of wood, a jar, hook and screwdriver. If you don’t feel inclined to make one, you can grab one here. 
• You could experiment with different colours, depending on the decor you were matching.  

I have a collection of baby formula tins in my cupboard that I have kept, hoping there is something useful I can do with them. They’re great quality tins with gold plastic lids, but they aren’t airtight, so I can’t store food in them. They also have branding on them, so I always planned to paint them, but wasn’t sure what colour or design to use, until now…

Why we love them:

• These colours look great together. White and gold look great for interiors, whilst the turquoise tones are bright and fresh for outside. 
• Stripes are a timeless pattern, and conveniently already marked on the tins! You could also use tape to ensure neat, clean lines. 
• You could apply this technique to any type of tin can – large or small. 
• I would also use these as storage tins for pens, stationery, sewing acessories such as cotton reels and other haberdashery. 

I recently found my stash of hankies I had as a child. I probably would have thrown them out, had they not been in such good condition and had such gorgeous vintage-style children’s prints on them. I have been racking my brains as to what I can do with them…a child’s quilt perhaps, or maybe some patchwork scatter cushions? The fabric of some of them is pretty fine now, so I’m not sure if they’d stand the wear-and-tear of being re-purposed in a quilt of cushion. Then I saw this gorgeous vintage hankie bunting idea and I can’t wait to try it!

• This is super easy to make – you can simply tie the corners together, so I don’t need to cut up my precious hankies
• You can make it as long as you want, depending on how many hankies you have
• This is a gorgeous way of decorating a child’s bedroom or casual living area. Simply select patterns that suit the room you intend to use it in i.e. children’s prints for a child’s room, or pretty florals for an adult bedroom. 
• It’s colourful, fun and would look great in any interior – contemporary or traditional. 
• Bunting has been around forever and is a classic decorating accessory, but it’s massively on-trend at the moment. 

Do you have at your house:

• Too many plastic animals
• Broken plastic animals
• Kids who have outgrown plastic animals?

Yes to any of the above? Then check out this fun way of re-purposing them…

Why we love them:

• This is one of the cutest handmade fridge magnets we’ve seen. Spray-painting them with metallic paint is a great way to make them stand out and look less like you’ve pinched them from the kids’ toy box;-)
• Create a collection of a few different animals – kids will love looking at the ‘zoo’ on their fridge!
• They would make great gifts for birthday party bags. 
• Experiment painting them different colours to match your decor, or on-trend colours, such as pastels. 

• This is a great Christmas gift for the guy who’s hard to buy for
• It’s pretty easy to pick up these cute little bottles of booze from your local bottle shop. Lots of little bottles cover all tastes, or you could get lots of little bottles of their favourite. 
• Look for large interesting boxes to put these little bottles in. We love this heart-shaped box, but you could use a Christmas-themed gift box. 
• You could also include a couple of lovely tumblers to drink out of too. 

As Christmas rapidly approaches, we may find ourselves in a situation where we need to buy a gift for someone we visit or stay with over the holiday season. This gift idea is beautiful and practical, plus it works well for a man or a woman…

• You can completely customise this gift for the recipient, whether they’re a man, woman or a family. 
• The black and white towel works well for a man or a family, but you could have fun picking a hand towel in a feminine print, or the recipient’s favourite colour. 
• You can also pick any utensil you think they would find most useful – in wood or another material to suit their existing pots and pans. 
• You can have fun picking the recipe book too – especially if they have a favourite chef. Or you could choose a new best-selling recipe book they don’t have, or a classic book with timeless recipes. 
• The towel is a fun, inexpensive way to wrap your gift, and it also protects the book.