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undersea

"Undersea Tawashi Collection"

6 patterns, $4.50

flowers

"3 Flower Tawashi"

3 patterns, $3.50

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Periodic table - make cardboard furniture

Ever wanted to make your own furniture, but don’t have tools, space, or woodworking skills? Well it is possible to make sturdy, usable, unique furnishings yourself, out of something most people have lying around at home – the humble corrugated cardboard box. Flimsy though it may seem, cardboard furniture can be very strong. Today I’m [...]

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Make a faux-cane basket... from paper!

This week, we’ll be making some surprisingly sturdy paper baskets. These baskets are a great way to recycle old magazines and flyers into attractive and useful objects.

You’ll need:

Fairly thin paper – for example old magazine pages, grocery store flyers, or the flimsier kind of junk mail. tape scissors (possibly) clothes pins or bulldog [...]

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Japanese paper frame with origami stars

What Valentines gift could be more personal than a picture of the two of you in a handmade frame? Today we’ll finish off our little love-fest by making a photo frame decorated with Japanese paper and origami stars.

Of course, if you don’t have any Japanese paper, you could just as easily use gift-wrap or [...]

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Papercut Dinosaurs

Saturday quickie time! Papercutting is fun and requires no sophisticated supplies – just paper and scissors. I made these dinosaurs (and many many like them) to entertain the kids at the kindergarten I work at on rainy afternoons.

Grab some scissors and a couple of squares of paper, and have fun!

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