Greetings all,
I'm a little overwhelmed that i struck a chord with my post about packaging!! Sometimes when you work alone in a creative field, you wonder if you're completely odd or other people share your passion about the little things, like twisted coloured string & hand stamped stickers, ahhhh, nice to know you're out there!! I'm sure if i posted about my genuine vintage button collection or patterned bias binding obsession, you'd be just as agreeable. Thanks!!
Now for something completely different . . . a little handmade magic trick for your children to try!! My eldest daughter must take the credit for finding this project on the internet. She likes to google science experiments, as you do. Well i would have if the internet was available when i was a child, i'm a bit of a science geek too.
Basically, from a piece of regular A4 copy paper or similiar weight, cut out a flower, including petals around a large round (20c piece size) centre. Feel free to decorate & colour it in.
Fold in all the petals, make it flat.
Place 5ml (teaspoon) of water in a bowl & pop the folded paper flower on the water & watch the petals magically unfold back to the original flower.
So apart from using scissors, it's completely harmless.
My children started making their flowers with messages, which was so sweet!!
I'm a little overwhelmed that i struck a chord with my post about packaging!! Sometimes when you work alone in a creative field, you wonder if you're completely odd or other people share your passion about the little things, like twisted coloured string & hand stamped stickers, ahhhh, nice to know you're out there!! I'm sure if i posted about my genuine vintage button collection or patterned bias binding obsession, you'd be just as agreeable. Thanks!!
Now for something completely different . . . a little handmade magic trick for your children to try!! My eldest daughter must take the credit for finding this project on the internet. She likes to google science experiments, as you do. Well i would have if the internet was available when i was a child, i'm a bit of a science geek too.
Basically, from a piece of regular A4 copy paper or similiar weight, cut out a flower, including petals around a large round (20c piece size) centre. Feel free to decorate & colour it in.
Fold in all the petals, make it flat.
Place 5ml (teaspoon) of water in a bowl & pop the folded paper flower on the water & watch the petals magically unfold back to the original flower.
So apart from using scissors, it's completely harmless.
My children started making their flowers with messages, which was so sweet!!
the bowl has 5ml of water, the folded flowers are ready to drop in
here i can show off all the 'i love you mum' messages they made, ahhhhh
