Monday, 11 May 2020

What I've been doing during lockdown - Crafting

Last week I blogged about the gardening, this week it's all the craft activities I've been doing around the house.

I've got so many bits and pieces on the go, I'm starting to wonder if lockdown will be long enough to allow me to finish, especially as I'm also redecorating our family home after 9 years of tenants.

All the items I've made will be kindly donated/offloaded onto the Things, my great nephew, our grandchild and a friends twins.

I've turned child 5's old bedroom into a craft room

Used milk bottle cartoons to make Elephants


Used up old tins of paint in the shed, toilet rolls and sticks from the garden to make giraffes


Washed and painted stones from the garden


Recycled cans into plant holders to brighten up the garden






Made pom poms to turn into a rug for our grandchild

Attempted a jigsaw puzzle with help from the cat

Hung bunting up around the house I made a few years ago

Hatched a flamingo, that a friend gave me last year


Had a complete fail with papier mache

Had a felting kit gifted to me from a friend that I'm having fun with

Every week I post magazines and sweets to my mum, with a large stamped address envelope, so she can fill it with crafting items such as wool and ribbons and all she has to do is post it in the letter box near her home.

Have you been doing any crafts? I have limited abilities and limited resources, but I've had a lot of fun and it's amazing what you can do/make with things you have lying around the house.

I wish I had my sewing machine and over locker with me in the UK and my stash of material to make some more bunting, a new bed for the dog and get the curtains ready for when our furniture arrives at some point in the future.

11 comments:

  1. Love your jigsaw puzzle assistant, she looks very helpful. :) You have been busy with crafts! The elephants are lovely, and remind me of one that Eddie made in the nursery. We kept it for years, and put on top of the Christmas tree until someone managed to sit on it after it was taken down, and completely ruined it. The giraffe is cute as well. And love your garden wall with mini planters!

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    1. my assistant is fired, she's a pain in the backside

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  2. The only real crafting I've done is make a vinyl vehicle sticker for my brother! My volunteer work has kept me somewhat busy, as has writing letters and being out in the garden.

    If you've got any pop bottles, you can make a fish out of them... My niece did that last summer at a craft fair we went to.

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    1. I've registered to volunteer on several sites, but haven't had a response and I'm new to the area and didn't have time to develop relationships before lockdown happened

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    2. My volunteer work is my usual National Garden Scheme volunteer job (though somewhat different to what was planned for this year). However, our village has a volunteer group helping people with shopping and prescriptions etc.

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  3. It certainly sounds like you've been keeping yourself busy. Your craft room looks fab.
    I love the giraffe. How cute and the plant holders are such a great idea x

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    1. I got the idea for the plant holders from when we lived in South Africa

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  4. I'm seriously impressed. I'm pretty useless at crafting, although I do have a lot of wine corks and a glue gun that I keep threatening to use. Love the elephants!

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    1. I would like a glue gun but it seems a waste of money when I have one back in Dubai that will eventually make it's way over here

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  5. Love seeing your crafts--and your pets! I've never been any good at crafts. I do a little drawing and watercolour painting, and am finding it a calming activity during the lockdown. Just did a card for a friend down the street, put my mask on and walked down and left it.

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    1. I've been doing the crafts to keep me busy, otherwise I get bored, I've run out of things to make now

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