1) Four flavours of dice, all decidedly dodgy! 2) Spelling it out… 3) Roman style… 4) Dots and stripes… 5) Sweet tooth… 6) Even building blocks! I’m really enjoying R...
1) 19 projects, 10 fineliners and 5 marker pads later… I recently celebrated a year of blogging by exhibiting a print called Everything I made in a year at the Art Sells exhibition in London. O...
1) “Hey, who put that hole there?” 2) “Boy, my arms ain’t half aching! They say a good soldier never leaves his post, well, this is now true of a toy soldier as well (mainly b...
1) Compact and bijou… 2) …tall and proud. I love making gadgety things, especially when they are engineered simply and from everyday things. This telescopic light (which first appeared in...
1) Espresso train Bliss’ometer: 15 mins Pros: Kids love trains, enough said! Cons: Adults will need to get heavily involved 2) Table football Bliss’ometer: 10min Pros: Very easy, and grea...
1) I wonder if he knows he’s made from toilet rolls… 2) …a plastic roll-on deodorant bottle… 3) …and a lid from a can of shaving gel? Here’s a robot that’s s...
I’m very excited by this craft project – mainly because it’s my first contribution to feature in MAKE: magazine (part of a new regular series) but also because I think it’s qu...
You could vote for ‘What I Made’ this way… Or you could do it the easy way, and vote online at the Webbys People’s Voice website. Of course, you don’t have to do either ...
1) How could something so twisted and warped… 2) …be so cool?! I love it when my boys draw, but I don’t love tidying up their felt-tip pens afterwards (most of which are normally on the f...
1) Turn a bottle of Coke Light into a… light! I recently came across some nice examples of jewellery and bowls made by melting recycled plastic in the oven – they really sparked my intere...
This must be my most simple project yet… a bead with a piece of wire stuck through the middle of it, or what I prefer to call ‘toast stackers’. Perfect for kids, in fact anyone who ...
Lights on: Day time Lights dimmed: Sunset Lights off: Night time My latest craft project is a bit of an oddity – in fact, I didn’t really know what to call it, the best I could come up wi...
Every boy and girl has treasures they want to keep safe – pocket money, a stash of sweets, trading cards (their Nintendo DS games) but where can they hide them? Well, in a ‘Home aloneR...
So here’s my latest upcycling craft project, a simple, yet attractive egg cup made from a recycled fork. I got the idea after coming across a coat hanger made from a bent fork – I immedia...
While I put the finishing touches to my next craft tutorial (another upcycling project – all you’ll need is an old fork and a good set of muscles) I thought I’d share the above illu...
Phew! This one has been a bit of a monster (excuse the pun) – I finished making the shark 3 weeks ago, but it has taken me ages to complete the hand drawn instructions. Anyway, it’s all d...
Firstly, apologies for not posting my next craft project – I’m still working on the hand-drawn instructions, hopefully I’ll have them done this week. One of the main reasons I’...
While working on last week’s rustic twig and wire bowl project, I had the idea of creating decorative ‘bugs’ to enhance your fruit bowl. Originally, I wanted to make them from the l...
Last week I used an empty baked beans tin, this week I thought I’d be even thriftier and use twigs! Okay, I also used some wire and an old biscuit tin, but the main material is good ‘ol twigs, ...
This cardboard fort was a bit impromptu. I started off working on next week’s craft project – next minute I was rescuing toilet rolls and old boxes and creating my son an ‘underwate...
For this week’s craft I’ve rested my son’s felt-tip pens and pursued one of my other passions, creating beautiful things out of junk – in this case an elegant tea light holder...
I just came across the Illustration Friday website thanks to a post from Claudine Hellmuth (AKA Collageartist). So rather spontaneously I decided to have a crack at creating an illustration for this ...
Go on, pick a colour… Now, pick a number… Here’s your fortune… No. 1: You will be attacked by a killer robot No. 2: You will get grunged by the ‘poo’ machine No. 3...
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