Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
So Glow DIY Magic Jar Studio is everything you need to create your own magical light up jars in three simple steps! This is a brand new So Glow DIY range that has recently launched in the UK. They offer a fabulous range of colourful themed jars to customise, decorate and keep. You can choose from, cool colour themes; turquoise ‘Chill’, purple ‘Cosmic’ and blue ‘Dream’ and warm colour themes: yellow ‘Happy’, green ‘Harmony’ and pink ‘Love’– designed to match every mood!
Let’s get creative this summer holiday with Interplay Fuzzikins craft set with your child! The Fuzzikins craft sets are a great gift as your child can customise the Fuzzikins by colouring them with whatever designs they desire! Then wash it off and your child can colour them again with a brand new look. They are great fun to keep the kids entertained during this summer break!
The top 3 reasons to use a Serger Sewing Machine
Sewing is a very important and useful skill to learn especially for moms struggling with buying clothes for their quickly growing toddlers. However, while sewing is an essential skill, it is also very hard to learn. Lots of people have been pricked by needles, struggled with the stitch paths, locking the ends and dealing with the corners of fabrics. Fortunately, with the aid of technology and innovation, sewing machines were invented and made our lives easier. Now with sewing machines, sewing has never been easier and more convenient. Furthermore, with developments in the sewing machines new features have been introduced to make sewing not just convenient but also fun. And one of these developments is the serger machine. Basically, a serger machine or also known as an overlock machine is a type of specialized sewing machine that combines or binds two pieces of cloth together with an overlock stitch. Furthermore, serger machines can allow the user to use up to 5 different kinds of threads for their sewing. It is a sewing machine that can seam, trim and overcast a fabric or cloth in one full swoop.
CBeebies’ arts and crafts hero, Mister Maker is back on tour with the hit live theatre show, Mister Maker & The Shapes Live! The first date of the tour happened to open at Lichfield Garrick theatre last Saturday and we had the opportunity to watch their first ever show! They are off visiting 44 theatres from Edinburgh to Brighton, Ipswich to Belfast, ready to delight Mini Makers all around the UK! The show is booking through until November 2017, visit www.mistermakerlive.com for ticket sales.
Qixels are pixelated cubes which allow children to create their own 8bit pixelated world full of fun themes and characters, by fusing them together with a blast of water. They are suitable for aged 4 and above.
It had been awhile since we last reviewed Qixels and were very excited to see that they now have a range of designs! Not only that, they have a much improved cube tray that allow children or adults to place the Qixels onto the tray and remove the characters off the tray with ease. We have received the Qixels Kingdom Castle Attack playset which features 1000 cubes to create a Qixels Kingdom where children can defeat the savage trolls and regain power of their lands.
Egmont is celebrating the Star Wars Reads Campaign this April and on Star Wars Day (May the 4th). We are delighted to be part of this campaign with other nine bloggers. Tomorrow, look out for WeMadeThisLife blogger’s post!
This is a very simple Chinese New Year Ang Pow Fish tutorial, especially suitable for younger children. For this coming New Year celebration, I am going to host the craft lesson for my Chinese club and to make it easy, I am going to teach my students this simple ang pow fish. If you don’t have square ang pow, then you can use any ang pow packets and cut them into a square shape.
This is my Chinese New Year ang pow fan tutorial. If you would like to learn about other lantern designs I have made previously, do take a look at my Pinterest board for Chinese New Year.
Drayton Manor, home of Europe’s only Thomas Land™ has officially opened its popular magical winter wonderland Christmas event with fireworks until 31st December 2016! This was our third time visiting their Magical Christmas event and this was probably our favourite visit yet!
Last Sunday, we went exploring at Countryfile Live 2016 at Blenheim Palace, thanks to Blacks for the tickets, who also sponsored Explore Britain at the show. This was our first time and if you haven’t been before, you might be wondering what’s in store. This event explores every aspect of the British countryside through exciting live arena shows, talks, hands-on activities, animal displays, farming in action and shopping with more than 600 food and craft producers and even a great British pub garden.
Fuzzikins Craft Dozy Dogs is a craft set for young children to colour their adorable doggy family and to make them accessories for a good night’s sleep. This is for aged five and above.
Create beautiful pom-poms with Pom Pom WOW! This is a new way to beautify your world by placing pom-poms on anything to create unique displays, messages and many more. This is so easy to use and a great craft kit for children aged six and above.
This decoration station comes with 75 pom poms, adhesive dots, adhesive roll dispenser, glitter glue pen, markers, paintbrush, watercolours, removable pom trays, pipette, removable water tray, stamper pads, blotting cloth and instructions.
Yay, it’s another week of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This linky will occur every fortnight and the linky will be open until 25th March 2016 so you have plenty of time to link up! This week I am featuring Easter crafts.
It’s craft time again! This time we are going to make Valentine’s Day crafts. Mr C and I usually don’t celebrate it but thanks to Baker Ross, we are making a few crafts as family time. They have sent us an exciting range of Valentine’s Day crafts which includes the Teapot Photo Frame Magnet kits, Heart Fuse Bead kits, Heart Wooden Keyrings and Heart Cross Stitch Bookmark kits.
Want to impress your friends with these amazing Press Out Masks? Then read on! These masks were designed by Steve Wintercroft, an artist with a passion for craftsmanship and conservation, these masks have been used everywhere from music videos and fashion shoots to theatre productions and political campaigns.
