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How To Guide for the Children’s Activity Mirror Drawing

This post is a how to guide for using the Wiltshire Gift’s Children’s Activity of Mirror Drawing. We hope you enjoy them. Mirror Drawing If you decide to give this craft a go then please share your creation using the… Continue Reading →

How To Guide for the Children’s Activity Christmas Bingo

This is how to play our Wiltshire Gift’s Christmas Bingo and the sheets required to print off to play. Christmas Bingo: Requirements: Technique: We always offer “prizes” for winners never anything overly exciting maybe a sweet from the Christmas chocolates… Continue Reading →

Are Fabric Decorations the Secret to Teaching Valuable Skills?

Fabric decorations are a big hit in our house. Not only can they be cheap, fun to make and need very little skill. They also help your child learn a very important and valuable practical skill. Our children actually use… Continue Reading →

The Ultimate Guide to Making your Own Clay Tree Decorations

Clay is always one of our girl’s favourite activities. These Clay Tree decorations can be made with Air drying clay as well as Kiln dried. If you decide to give this craft a go then please share your creation using… Continue Reading →

Hands Down the Best Classic Christmas Cake Recipe

Making your own Christmas cake is great fun. Normally we stick loosely to the amazing Recipe from Mary Berry. However, we adapt ours slightly as we do not add nuts to the recipe. Furthermore, we cheat a little! 😉 We… Continue Reading →

When a Scottish Tablet Recipe Fails

Here is our favourite Scottish Tablet recipe and what we do when we get in wrong. It is almost two recipes in one! We have actually done this recipe a few times now and tend to have a 50/50 success… Continue Reading →

Fabulously fizzy homemade bath bombs!

These fabulously fizzy homemade bath bombs are always a big hit with our Emily. They are so quick and simple to make I often do it with her after work (then pop one in a nice bath before bed!) Fabulously… Continue Reading →

Lucious Peppermint Foot Soak

This simple Peppermint Foot soak really makes a very effective foot soak. It will have your feet and tired legs thanking you especially after a long day at work. Peppermint Foot soak Epsom Salts Soap Colouring Peppermint Essential oil Add… Continue Reading →

Homemade Beeswax Moisturising Cream.

Welcome here you will find our Beeswax Moisturising cream. This is one of our family’s favourite creams with a pot of this on most bedsides in our house we make it quite a lot. Beeswax Moisturising cream Ingredients: 1/4 cup… Continue Reading →

Simple to make Homemade Soap

Here you will find one of our favourite homemade soap recipes. these soaps are so easy to make and can be done so quickly. you can spice things up by changing the type of melt and pour soap we have… Continue Reading →

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