Ah-Tissue at the Confetti Fair Brisbane

On Sunday I had a stall at the very first Brisbane Confetti Fair which was held in the beautiful Old Museum. The Confetti Fair is new to Australia and is where great party ideas come together. Australia's only boutique party fair ~ www.confettifair.com.au

What you see there is exhibitors showcasing the best in party ideas; decor, cake, sweets, flowers, planning, stationery, dessert tables, styling, & products. 

 

Here are a few photo's of my stall..

 

 I was a fantastic day!!

Craft Room Make Over!!

Update..

So many things have been keeping me busy of late and I have been so slack with blog posts.  I thought I would share one of the things that have been keeping me busy of late.. We decided to make an official Craft Room/ Project Studio at our place, which has been a long process but it is nearly there..

I am at the decoration stage of the room and wanted to share a few things that I have been able to do this week..

I have been recycling pasta sauce jars into craft storage jars. I will be doing a fair few of these for my wall unit which I will share once I have finished.. 

Yesterday I also made a start on making some storage for my twine stash. Using the same design as the button ones, as it will be going on the same wall unit. With these jars I hammered a hole into the lid for easy access to the twine. Really wanting everything to match in the new craft room as I am hoping it will help me keep organised heheh If you are on Instagram make sure you come follow me as I will be sharing a lot more photos of my handmade craft love. User name is @daneve_ahtissue

Today I was able to put this up in my craft room/studio not sure if I am finished but think it looks great.. :) this photo doesn't really capture the true colours but think you can see what colour theme I have gone with in the room.

I will be sharing how I did this in another post.. What do you think?

Kind Regards
Daneve
Owner, Mum & Creator
Ah-Tissue

DIY - Can't Sleep Thoughts Frame

Does anyone have trouble falling asleep because you have too many thoughts going around in your head?

 Well I do, and also have wake ups in the middle of the night. Then can't get back to sleep because I am thinking about things that need to be done the next day.

I wanted to make myself one of these frames so I can right them down and be able to remember them in the morning..

• To make this I found a spare frame and printed out one of the below printables that my lovely husband has done for me.

•  If you have an old frame that doesn't have the glass anymore all you need to do is laminate the image and pop it in the frame as it will work the same way..

• The only other items you will need is a whiteboard pen and a cloth to wipe off old thoughts.

Free Printables to choose from:

Download A4 size  

Download 8x10 size

Download A4 size

Down 8x10 size

Download A4 size

Download 8x10 size

Please let me know if you would like any in a different colour.

I am loving my new addition to my bedroom.

I would love to see any photos if you ever make one of my DIY projects feel free to email me at ah-tissue@hotmail.com

Enjoy!!

Daneve

xox

DIY Recycled Activity Box

As I mentioned we have a Birthday Party on the weekend for our friends little boys 3rd Birthday.  I really wanted to make use of 1 of the left over Picnic Baskets which is in the below post. So when I was looking at them, I thought about this idea of up-cycling them into a "Kids Activity Box", I am really happy how it turned out.

Step 1. First I peeled off the picnic blanket that was on the inside flap then I replaced it with a piece of chalkboard adhesive.

Step 2. Cut up toilet rolls and a postage tube then glue on some Kraft Paper (color & print is up to you) 

To make the main center holder, I just cut up some cardboard and hot glued them to form the holder. You will see the box already has the two bits of cardboard which you can create the side flaps of the holder.

Step 3. Work out your positions of your tube holders then hot glue them into place. You can also glue on little labels to them like I have.

Step 4. Paint the sides of the box in your desired colour, then you can add either paper or adhesive (contact paper) to the front and back of the box.

Step 5. Print out the free label to stick on the front and back of the box.

With the other side of the box i have added a few extra items for him to use.

I am sure the kids will get alot of use out of it.

Let the Creating begin I say!!!

xo

Daneve

DIY Kids Art Work Hanger

 It is School holidays here in Queensland, Australia so I think this is a perfect activity to do with your children.

If you are like me, that has a child in Kindy or daycare, you will know how many paintings & collages you get. At first I just had a pile growing in the corner didn't know what to do with them all.

Well this is one way we now hang some of them, which is an activity I did with my son.

What you need:

1 x Old Magazine that you can cut up

Pair of scissors

Glue Stick

Your favorite Washi Tape (my son picked out this one) 

1 x Wooden Clip Hanger (I get mine from IKEA) 

Step 1. Cover the wooden section and clip with the tape. Now if you don't have Washi tape you can just glue strips of coloured paper.

 

Step 2. Work out what you want to put on the Hanger, I just picked "Tahlin's Art" which is my sons name and Art. I was going to put Artist Tahlin. It is really up to you. 

Step 3. Once you know what you want let your child help you flip through the magazine to find the letters. This was a good learning alphabet game to play to with them.

Make sure they are the right size to fit on the wooden section of the hanger.

Step 4. When you have all the letters you need place them on the hanger the glue them on.

Then you can hang their art work up on the wall just like a wall hanging.

Tip: When it starts to get to full what we do is use some of them a wrapping for presents. Since we have hit the age of many kids party this is one way we save on buying new gift wrapping.

Enjoy!!

xo

Daneve