by Anne Murphy | Mar 21, 2018 | Craft, DIY, Frugal Living, H.O.M.E., Homemaking, Making-Do, Organising, Tips/Hints
You know you can make your own DIY laundry hamper? Doing the laundry isn’t such a bad job for me. I don’t actually mind it. What I don’t really like is having to pick the dirty laundry up from the kid’s bedroom floors. I’d love for them...
by Anne Murphy | Mar 7, 2018 | Craft, DIY, Easter, Gifts, Sewing, Tips/Hints
Easter comes around so quickly after Christmas. It’s no sooner Valentine’s Day and then the shops are filled with Easter gifts. I don’t know when it became a tradition to give people gifts. I’ve only ever given my children sweets and maybe an...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 2, 2017 | Craft, DIY, Frugal Living, Making-Do, Tips/Hints
Don’t throw those faded, holey old towels out. Besides being excellent cleaning rags, spew rags (which I just realised yesterday that I needed a whole heap of with my sick little boy), wiping the wet dog rags, they can be made in to many other useful things for...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 2, 2017 | Craft, Tips/Hints
My daughter has a French Knitting ‘doll’ and has made many lengths of French knit but we’ve not really been sure what to do with it all. She’s been using it for dolls and toys etc but I went searching through Pinterest (as you know I do) and...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 2, 2017 | Craft, DIY, Frugal Living, Makeover, Making-Do, Tips/Hints
Today, I am tackling my kid’s wardrobes and culling their clothes right back to basics. I’ve been so very, very lucky to have received a lot of hand-me-downs for both of them over the years and I quite happily accept them. Probably when they were little...
by Anne Murphy | May 1, 2017 | Craft, DIY, Sewing, Shopping, Tips/Hints
Whenever you’re crafting, of any kind, whether that’s quilting, embroidery, applique, crocheting, knitting etc, you’ve got to have all your tools at the ready and if you’re in front of the TV like I am, most of the time you’ve got to put...