Paper roll armchairs

Back to squishing toilet paper tubes flat to make these sweet little armchairs! They're to add to our shoebox sitting room, but you really don't need a shoebox house to make one.

Fireplace for Shoebox Sitting room

It's taken a while...but now the shoebox kitchen has been updated, it's time to move onto the sitting room, and a fireplace seemed a good place to start. This one is made from a stock cube box

Pick up a Penguin pattern for Sewasoftie

I love a tree decoration, we are coming down with them! Every year I'm surprised by the sheer number of baubles and ornaments that come out of the Christmas box, but there's always room for more don't you think??

Shoebox kitchen units

We made a shoebox kitchen a while ago, and fully intended to add more rooms, but then got sidetracked, as you do.. And when I looked at it again recently I felt the kitchen units could be improved and simplified. So the old ones

Toilet paper roll oven and washing machine

Forever flattening toilet paper rolls, that's me! It's really quick and easy to do once you've got the hang of it, and this simple technique opens up no end of possibilities.. 

Like these sweet little kitchen appliances.

Halloween egg carton crafts

...poor little thing! Didn't stand a chance.. 

But Halloween is definitely the time for crafts with a bit more shock value. 

And good to have an element of surprise, even if that spells bad news for the fly..