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Put your hand up if you love weekend crafts? Pick us!!Last weekend we received some lovely press in the Victorian Herald Sun Home liftout magazine. The project showcased was our simple yet effective method of dressing up a stock standard white paper lantern. We were pretty proud we even made the front cover!! You can download the instructions by clicking here

Our clever Manny has put together some instructions for this super easy weekend craft idea. Using alphabet stamps to create cute notebooks for sketching or gifts. With no fancy materials in this craft you are bound to have everything at home (no pun intended!)

To make this a 'green' project use recycled paper if you want to!

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

You Will Need:

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

• 20 sheets of regular paper for your internal pages

• Heavy cover paper

• A bookbinding or heavy needle

• A Bookbinding Awl or a small nail

• Scoring bone or butter knife

• Wax thread

• Glue

20 Sheets of regular A4 paper for your internal pages
1 Sheet Heavy A4 paper for cover
A bookbinding or heavy needle
A bookbinding awl or a small nail
Scoring bone or butter knife
Wax thread
Craft Glue (liquid)

Download the full step by step instruction sheet here

Yesterday the Dandi ladies all celebrated Mindi's Birthday! We sampled two different types of cake, Chocolate Mud and Orange and Almond flourless, as well as delicious cupcakes from My Little Cupcake(courtesy of a friend in Cairns - how cute!).

We also sat down to the traditional Dandi birthday lunch of yummy sushi and present unwrapping....

Two pressies! + a gorgeous handmade card by resident dandi Artist,Manny

Pressie number 1: The very cool new book by Sydney chick Kelly Doust: The Crafty Minx

Some projects from the book: Top: Beach Bag - a summer essential! Bottom: Elegant clutch? Yes please!

Pressie 2: Speaking of elegant clutches... how gorgeous is this Organic 

Cotton clutch from aussie company Apple & Bee. Now Mindi just needs to go shoe shopping for some killer heels to match!