Make some bright colorful washi tape earrings quickly and easily using recycled plastic. With different washi tape you can customize them to any colors you want! I wanted to have a go at making some more of my own earrings and I wanted them to be easy to make. In the past I have made some using milk bottle plastic and tomato sauce bottle plastic but I wanted to make some that were bright and multi-colored! I was looking online for inspiration when I came across this link (sorry link is … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Soften Butter Quickly
Today I am discussing 4 ways to soften butter quickly so that something as simple as hard butter doesn’t stop us baking! Sometimes I’m not as organised as I should be and when I start baking I realise that I haven’t taken the butter out of the fridge and then I have to wait for it to soften - it’s so annoying! I usually chop the butter into smaller pieces to try and speed up the softening process but it still takes a while. It is not quite so bad at the moment because the weather is warmer … [Read more...]
Cheap and Easy Cat Toys
These DIY Cat Toys are so cheap and easy to make they are practically free! Plus unlike bought cat toys, cats will actually play with these toys! How many times have you bought a toy for your cat only to get it home and find that your cat or cats just ignore it? It has happened quite a few times in our house and the result is that we have a box of cat toys that the cats are not interested in! The problem is you never know what toys will take their fancy until you get them home :( What is … [Read more...]
Plastic Earrings from Recycled Sauce Bottles
I love making my own jewellery from recycled materials. Like these cool plastic earrings that were made from part of a squeeze tomato sauce bottle! Earlier this year I shared a tutorial on how to make some really cute plastic earrings from recycled milk bottles. They were so easy to make that I have been wondering how I could make some more using different colours! The milk bottles are really easy to work with but unfortunately they only come in one colour – white! So I had to start looking … [Read more...]
How to Use Coffee Grounds in the Garden
I don’t actually drink coffee but others in my family do so I am lucky enough that I still have access to some coffee grounds. I have been adding coffee grounds to the compost for a while now but I have always wondered if there were other ways that they could be used in the garden. So I decided to do some reading and see if I could learn a bit more about how to use coffee grounds in the garden. I initially wondered if there would be any problems with just sprinkling them around the … [Read more...]
5 Laundry Products That You Can Make Yourself
I love the idea of being able to make your own cleaning products. Not just because the homemade version is often cheaper but also because it means that I know exactly what is in the product I am using. One product that I have been making up myself over the last couple of years is a window and mirror cleaner. It is great knowing that it’s non-toxic and because it consists of everyday items that I always have on hand - I never run out. Recently I was wondering about other regular household … [Read more...]
Making Your Own Self Raising Flour
What do you do when you haven’t got any self raising flour – you make your own! Well that’s what I had to do the other day when I had a craving for another batch of these yummy scones and I realised that I didn’t have enough self raising flour left! I had plenty of plain flour in the pantry but no self raising flour. I was sure that I had heard of some way of turning plain flour into self raising flour! So I jumped on the computer and searched for a solution. As it turns out I didn’t have … [Read more...]
Attractive Storage When You Have Lots of Cupcake Liners
I'll admit that I just can’t walk past the baking section at the supermarket without having a quick look at the cupcake liners that are on offer. I love these pretty little pieces of paper that make baking so much easier! I use cupcake liners when I am making cupcakes or muffins because they are not only fast to pop into the baking trays - but they also make clean up afterwards a breeze. The less cleaning the better I say! As well as being convenient cupcake liners also add that something … [Read more...]
Hi, I'm Kaylene, and I'm a keen gardener,budding baker and wannabe DIYer!