Merry Christmas

Just made up some baking parcels to give away. Ages ago we bought six cane baskets on the assumption I would eventually find a purpose for them, now they are filled with baking goodies ready for a new home. Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sparkle Snowflakes

Inspired by a science book about snowflakes I decided to make some snowflake decorations. Yes I know it never snows at Christmas time in New Zealand but they are so pretty. These snowflakes were cut from cardboard then decorated with paint, glitter and glittery hot glue.

Menorah

It's finished and took me less than two days. Firstly I made the shell from four plastic cups and a long thin box ( it previously held gourmet chocolates). I placed cardboard on the bottom of three cups and in between the two layers. Everything was glued together with a industrial strength contact adhesive (used some Bostik stuff, it worked well).

Next came the paper mache. I was abit lazy and only did one layer, if you want a smoother surface I suggest doing more than one layer then applying a layer of white paper. For the candlestick holders I used bottle caps, I glued upside down drawing pins to the inside of the caps then added blue tack. Then I cut strips of cardboard and folded them around each bottle cap and sellotaped the sides together. The cardboard and bottle caps were then hot glued to the base.

Then I covered everything in white paint. When that was dry I painted it gold. Then I put in the candles, to make them stand up as straight as possible and filled the sides around the candles with tissue paper.