Home-made Presents

This simple tutorial explains how to marble glass bottles using nail polish.  It’s a great way to use up all those polishes you never wear, with stunning results!

These pretty string wrapped eggs are perfect for Easter decorations, and are quick and easy to make without having to use messy glue.

A liqueur is sweetened alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, cream, herbs, spices, flowers or nuts. Homemade liqueurs make lovely presents and are super simple to make. Over…

This festive christmas liqueur is an adaptation of our Christmas Extract recipe. Whereas the extract is designed to be really concentrated in flavour for use in other recipes, this liqueur…

The inspiration for this Christmas Extract recipe was a home made Vanilla Extract recipe that I saw on Pinterest. When I realised how easy that was to make at home…

Regular readers will remember that back in June I was given a fabulous hoard of wild horseradish roots.

Today was the last day of the school year, and like many people, we enjoyed making a little home made gift to thank our teachers for all their hard work.…

We all want beautiful, healthy skin, as proved by the overwhelming array of skin products available to us in the shops. But did you know that man has been using…

I recently got given a huge pile of old magazines, which when added to the stack I already had at home, made me realise that we really needed to come…

Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper on to it, and then sealing the finished product in layers of varnish until the cut out appearance…

Home-made bath fizzes are really simple and fun to make at home. There are loads of different recipes you can use. Ours is a simple version, based primarily on what…

Regular readers will know that we are huge Pinterest fans. Every visit, I find something new and different to inspire us; whether it be a craft project, recipe, an amazing…