candle gift box - mini gifts for Christmas

Made several of these and filled them with candles from IKEA for raffle prizes for our school fete - could also have been for teachers gifts or similar

Tutorial: origami box with lid

Recently I found the perfect piece of jewellery for a friend of mine at a table top sale - problem was that I felt a bit cheap giving it in a small plastic bag!  This tutorial allows you to take any paper and turn it into a gift box with a lid.  the size of the box you end up with depends on the size of the paper you start off with, simples!

Tutorial:Origami Gift Bag for Kids parties

These days I don't get to do little kids parties more is the pity but as part of the PTFA at my kids primary school over the last year we have had a few activities were we have needed small bags that were not Disney and a little more grown up.  This tutorial allows you to take any paper and turn it into a little bag for say a handful of sweets.  you can use gift wrap, paper printed with images from the web, scrapbook paper even paper decorated with original artwork from you little ones to make it really personal.  

Tutorial: How to make an eight page mini book from a single piece of paper

Here is the tutorial

Works brilliantly and as B is now into writing (finally) we now have hundreds filled with scribbles thus saving me a fortune on notepads, and of course I'm more likely to have a spare piece of paper than a pad so its more convenient for when he suddenly decides he wants to do it too.