Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts

Monday, 23 June 2014

Decorate your own toothbrush

toothbrushes

Venturing out to buy the family toothbrushes at the supermarket can be a bit disheartening if you're after something without licenced characters or gender-specific colours. Racks full of pink, glittery princess toothbrushes and blue cars and transformers burst forth as you try to find a colour and character mix that fits your child's tastes... Sometimes sighing when it doesn't and when what's on offer for what should be a simple tool is... disappointing. 

Then there's all the plastic and fact that these tools should be regularly replaced. If you're a family of five, like ours, that's a whole lot of plastic thrown into landfill over a lifetime. 

We like to keep things simple by buying bamboo toothbrushes in bulk here. They're soft, lightweight fair-trade, sustainable and compostable. All things we love.

To combat the confusion of five plain wooden toothbrushes in the holder, we decorate them ourselves. Any paint will do, but our favourite, most simple way to decorate them is using our Giotto Materials Markers. They're permanent paint markers that work on absorbent materials like ceramic, stone and wood. Easy to hold, mess free and vibrant and make for a fun activity. What we love best is that we can choose our most favourite colours and patterns and every toothbrush is different. Like a little evolving art installation in our bathroom. 

You can find our Giotto Materials Markers here. 

*NB: we've not been paid to endorse the environmental toothbrush, we just thing they're a great product*

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Christmas Products

for you, or someone else!
$30.00 within Australia

Beguile Lip Balm
Three varieties
$4.00 each
pop one into a...

Wool Felt Pencil Case
which are great for make-up, jewelery, any art supplies and more...
$9.50 each
add a ...

Glass Bead Spiral Bracelet
only $7.50 each
in a variety of colours

Beguile Soap
is $7.00
or only $1.75 for a guest-sized bar
goes perfectly with...

Bamboo Face & Body Washcloths
handmade in two colours
only $10.00
soft, yet hard-wearing

Calico Pencil Cases
$4.00 each
and

Calico Bags
$3.50 each
go perfectly with...

Get into the spirit of the season with these
Christmas Craft Packs
only $25.00

Festivities Cards
$12.00 for six

or Angels Card
$4.00 each

These are just a sample of the variety of gifts stocked by Spiral Garden. As well as our wide range of toys, books, and art supplies!

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Autumn Craft

There has been great interest in our Autumn Products and a customer wrote today to ask about ideas for crafts to use the Autumn Craft Pack. We're working on some fact sheets to go with the craft packs for those customers who need some help choosing what to make. I do really like the idea of keeping it open-ended and more organic though, and the results customers have shared amaze me!


We stock some books with craft ideas, as well as the wonderful Living Crafts magazine subscriptions (back issues coming in 2010).

There are also endless ideas shared by generous like-minded folk online. Here are a few (try searching for waldorf, steiner, craft, autumn, fall and see what you can discover too!)

Mama Roots' Tomten Pattern (in preparation for the coming winter)

Walnut Cradle at Make-Stuff
(another one for the nature table)

Craft Ideas' Autumn Leaves
(for the window, a mobile, a wreath, or...?)

Gnome Tutorial at Wee Folk Art (there's also a cute sleeping bag pattern here - adapt to any season)


Items you can make from our craft pack include, but are not limited to -
* cards, wall hangings, mobiles or single decorations (a leaf on a piece of yarn, for example)
* bags, purses, bracelets, necklaces, anklets, crowns
* fairies, gnomes, dolls, animals and other little figures for play or the nature table
* beds, pillows, blankets, rugs, clothes - capes and hats, flowers, leaves, tress and other accessories for above characters
* finger puppets and dolly peg puppets
* photo frames, pin cushions, pouches, garlands, yarn dolls, felt food...