Spring Crafting – Blossom Table Decoration

Looking to bring Spring in and brighten up your home? Our pretty blossom table decoration is really easy to make and is perfect to hang on your favourite Spring decorations such as eggs, birds or rabbits. Here's our quick 'how to' guide! What you'll need: ...

Pretty ways to Recycle used Christmas Cards…

My love of greetings cards meant I started a business selling them so it goes without saying when I get a pretty card sent to me I want to ensure it doesn't go to waste or in the waste bin! There are so many ways you...

The Alternative Advent

November is the perfect time to start planning and making your own advent for loved ones. In this months blog we explore some alternative advents and give you our top ideas for packaging and display!...

Let Autumn into your Home by Painting Pumpkins!

October simply wouldn't be October without a pumpkin. When the kids were little it was the carved scary variety that had pride of place on the windowsill but now they're all grown up and gone, I take a refreshingly different and more adult approach to letting...

How to Guide – Prettily Packaging a Homemade Gift!

Homemade gifts are back in fashion and that's official! Over the years the home crafted market has been growing organically but add in a global pandemic and lots of people with a need to fill lots of spare time or a need to save money and...

When life Gives you Lemons (and Lemon Gift Wrap!)

It's been a difficult few months and life really has given us our fair share of lemons hasn't it? Thankfully we're a really resourceful and creative nation with our glasses half full and so throw us a lemon and we're likely to pop on...

Pretty Paper Boats

Yearning to set sail into the sunset? (Or just after keeping the kids busy while you drift off on the sofa for a bit!) Paper boats are a fun and easy to make, traditional oragami craft. And the best bit, you only need a bit of...

Gift Wrapping Art – Collage

Unleash the inner artist with some creative Gift Wrapping Collage in this months More Pretty Things Blog ...