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    DIY tutorial - Felt Flower Easter Wreath
    • Mar 30
    • 3 min

    DIY tutorial - Felt Flower Easter Wreath

    What better way is there to celebrate Easter than with a little easy crafting? This door wreath is a lovely way of welcoming in the Easter weekend and is super quick to make. We'll teach you how to make two different types of pretty felt flowers, with our step by step guides and how to assemble your wreath using a plain lampshade ring and some ribbon - it really is that simple! Great for scrapbusting, this project is one the kids can even try too. In place of using a glue gun
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    Lampshade Kit Hack #6 - Starry Night Lampshade + FREE Template PDF
    • Feb 24
    • 3 min

    Lampshade Kit Hack #6 - Starry Night Lampshade + FREE Template PDF

    Highlighting our professional cutting service in our last blog post got us thinking that it would be fun to explore a DIY version of the same thing and this effective star cut out hack was born! Making shades for a children's room opens up plenty of cool creative ideas and we think kids will love the soft glow of the stars shining through the fabric. The stars are a simple design, the perfect unisex lampshade and with all of our drum lampshade making kits, this can be used as
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    Lampshade Kit Hack #5 - Happy Holidays Map
    • Jan 29
    • 4 min

    Lampshade Kit Hack #5 - Happy Holidays Map

    Hands up who’s dreaming of a holiday escape? 🙌🏻 We Britons love our holidays - a day by on the beach, playing in the sand and sea rounded off with a fish and chip supper. We thought we’d capture those happy holidays with one of our Rectangle Rounded Lampshade Making Kits and in this DIY tutorial we’re going to show you how to make a lampshade using a paper map. Whilst this project uses regular lampshade making skills, there are a few differences when working with paper, but
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    DIY Contemporary Plant Hanger tutorial
    • Jan 11
    • 3 min

    DIY Contemporary Plant Hanger tutorial

    As our homes become our castles again, why not turn your time and talents to making this cool and Contemporary Plant Hanger that will give your home the modern edge? Made from just three plain lampshade making rings it's super easy to put together and budget friendly too and with our stock of plain rings in huge range of sizes (1 meter plant hanger anyone?) you can get creative with the scale of your hanger. Sticking with the interiors trend for natural materials, we used ra
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    Christmas Gifts – Easy hand-decorated truffle box & truffles!
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Christmas Gifts – Easy hand-decorated truffle box & truffles!

    A homemade gift is often the most thoughtful gift and with time to spend in our kitchens cooking up treats this year, sweet treats are the best of all! We’re a huge fan of chocolate at Dannell’s HQ and we’ll not only be making plenty of these rich, chocolatey (and a little bit boozy!) bombs of loveliness for our nearest and dearest, but we’ve also come up with this simple hand-decorated truffle box too. By taking a cardboard Lantern lid and base (cheese box) and a sheet of A3
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    Christmas decorations - DIY Festive Balloon glass lamps
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    Christmas decorations - DIY Festive Balloon glass lamps

    So if you're a fan of the blog you'll know that we shared this festive project before, well last Christmas actually :), but we loved it so much we wanted to share it again. Hacking our Candle Clip Lampshade Kit to make this clever balloon glass lamp can bring light to your Christmas dinner table in a super creative, and we have to say, expensive looking way. Something about this project says 'hotel chic' and while that might not be an option at the moment, our homes can defin
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    Christmas gifting - DIY Decoupage sewing box tutorial
    • Nov 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Christmas gifting - DIY Decoupage sewing box tutorial

    Did you know DIY gifting has double the benefits of buying shop bought? Not only are you making something thoughtful and handmade, but indulging in a little crafting is good for your wellbeing, helps you learn new skills and gives you something positive to focus on! We've taken one of these handy wooden tea boxes from our Paintable Products Range, normally used to store and display paper packaged tea bags and turned it into something that will make every crafter swoon - STORA
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    DIY kid’s Halloween lantern with FREE PDF templates
    • Oct 15, 2020
    • 3 min

    DIY kid’s Halloween lantern with FREE PDF templates

    Perfect to occupy the kids for a morning, these creative Halloween lanterns are super easy to make using our free PDF template download.
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    Halloween printed lantern kit DIY tutorial with FREE PDF templates
    • Oct 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Halloween printed lantern kit DIY tutorial with FREE PDF templates

    Halloween is nearly upon u! Make this simple, but effective DIY printed lantern, to create your very own bespook (!) Halloween decoration!
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    How to make a birdcage lampshade DIY tutorial
    • Oct 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    How to make a birdcage lampshade DIY tutorial

    Bring colour and a sense of humour to your home, by making this DIY birdcage shade on a budget. Follow our step by step tutorial!
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    Christmas DIY tutorial –  Balloon glass candle shade lights
    • Dec 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Christmas DIY tutorial – Balloon glass candle shade lights

    As Christmas approaches fast our attention is turning to the smaller details and for us the Christmas dinner table is one of the most important. Not only because it’s a time to share the company of friends and family, some pretty delicious food, but because we enjoy finding just the right colour napkins, writing name cards and creating our table arrangements – and we’re fairly sure that this is the same for anyone who has a creative streak! At Dannells HQ we’ve been playing w
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