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DIY Heart Potato Stamp for Valentines Day

This is an easy one that you can use for a ton of different things like making valentines or decorating gifts bags, wrapping paper or gift tags. We used our heart potato stamp to embellish envelopes for the Valentines pendants Alec made for his friends this year.

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DIY Edible Finger Paint for Valentine’s Day

This is Alec’s third Valentines Day and we have been working on a project that I’ll share tomorrow. On Monday I shared Alec’s and my very first Valentines Day project – DIY Baby Cupid Photos! And today I want to show you last year’s project. We got our hands dirty and tried finger painting for [...]

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DIY Baby Cupid Valentines Photo

Two years ago, when Alec was just 2 and a half months old, Sumit was away in Barcelona for Valentine’s Day (this huge international congress used to ALWAYS stretch over Valentines – no doubt decided by a lazy man!). It was hard to do anything to really celebrate the day with him so far away, [...]

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DIY Playdough Gift Box

Alec’s little friend Rebecka recently turned two. When we asked what she would like for her birthday, her mum told us that she likes crafting. So we decided to make Rebecka a playdough gift box. First we made a gift box for the set. I found fabric and wax cloth in a sweet green with [...]

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DIY Playdough Recipe

Little A is crazy about playdough right now. Cannot get enough. He asks to play with it several times a day and it keeps him busy for ages. The set we are using right now is a batch I made a few weeks ago. I had been wanting to make our own play dough for [...]

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DIY Cloud Dough

My husband was right. I was wrong. Cloud dough: I had visions of Alec sitting with his hands in the bin exploring the texture of the cloud dough we made and building little sand castles. My husband said we would have cloud dough all over the flat. To be fair, it wasn’t all over the [...]

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