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Archive for October, 2010

Made By You Monday

I have loads of winners to announce-- for the Nintendo DSi, fabric, patterns and more.... I will try to get them all up tomorrow.  Thanks so much for your patience!

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Deocorating for Halloween

If you are looking for ways to make your home festive for Halloween here are some ideas in this Friday Flashback!

Papel picado ("perforated paper") is the beautiful Mexican art of cutting paper into elaborate designs. One of the best sites on the web, The Toymaker, has some simple templates to make your own papel picado Halloween banner.

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Traditionally tissue paper is used to make these banners. We had good luck using crepe paper. I printed out the designs, foldel the template in half along with a piece of crepe paper inside and fastened with paper clips. My daughter then was able to cut around the outside edges eaisly. I helped with the inside bits.

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Cut out as many as you like.

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To make ready for hanging we folded the top edge over a piece of string and glued, being careful not to stretch the crepe paper.

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What a simple way to make your home festive!

Be sure to visit the Toymaker for all her lovely paper toys. I love her darling cat favor boxes.

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