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Tips for making your own christmas crackers or Bon-bons!

I like making my own Christmas Crackers! I like being able to get the colour that I want to match the rest of the table as I rarely got for the traditional colours. I also like to be able to pop my own "surprises" in the crackers instead of getting a piece of plastic rubbish that just get trashed immediately. Some years I get excited and go all out with my crackers- other years, its pretty basic and laid back. Over the years I have developed some short cuts (and long cuts) for making crackers and thought I would share them with you. Here's what I do... This year I am going for a lavender and mint colour scheme and I can not find any crackers in those colours. I thought about white or silver for a while and then when I looked through the various papers I had in my craft room - and I found the lavender! The white Fleur-de-lys pattern actually came from the wrapping from a bunch of flowers that I had saved. I cut the plastic up into strips that happened

Making a home made, hand made watch strap...

I'm really rough on watches! I wear them all the time and they often get immersed in water, banged and scratched and generally worn out! I buy them for $10 from the local Big W/K Mart but its not the watch itself that gives up the ghost. Its usually the watch strap that breaks. Its very frustrating to have a collection of watch face's - albeit a little dinged - but not be able to wear them. I went through a phase of buying new watch straps for them and ran into that old age problem of the strap being more expensive to replace than the whole watch...?! The cheapest watch strap I could find was $12 and it lasted about two months. I did go and buy a proper leather strap for $25 and reckon I might have got an extra three or four months out of it... Its been an ongoing problem for me for a while now and I think I have finally I solved it! Here's what I did...   This is the $10 Big W special watch with the current broken strap!   (Sorry photos are bad. My ca
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