Personalised mugs

Here's a really quick and simple way to personalise a mug for a gift or for your own home.

I tried it out on Monday with Bean to give to her classroom assistants as a gift when she leaves nursery this week.

Here's her result:

On our Monday Make night we decided to give it a try too. 

Here's what you need:

A white mug

A Sharpie marker (I just had black but you can also buy coloured ones too)

Here's what to do:

Draw on your mug with your marker.

Place in the oven for 30 mins gas mark 4, 350F, 180C

Once cooled you can then use it. 

Hand-wash only, not suitable for the dishwasher.

Here's our results:

Be free...

I moustache you something!

Here's my lovely friend Carly with her creation!

Until next time,

Happy Making xx

Multicoloured crayons

I don't know about you but our crayon pot always seems to have hundreds of little bits of crayon at the bottom that never get used.

I was sorting through our craft drawers yesterday and was about to tip all the broken bits into the bin when I remembered an idea I'd seen on Pinterest a while ago.

I went to the cupboard and got out a rubber ice cube tray from Ikea and put all the bits into the water sections (making sure all the paper was removed first.)

I then put the tray into the oven on 40 degrees/gas mark 3 for 15-20mins. After they were all melted I carefully took them out of the oven and left them to cool. Once they were set I removed them from the ice cube tray.

And voila we have new, multicoloured crayons!

N.B be prepared to throw the ice cube tray in the bin after as you definitely won't want to make ice in them again!

Happy Making xxx