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How to make a lamp out of a cardboard box… ta-da!
2 Dec
The invaluable Marta from the 2nd funniest thing came up with and photographed this tutorial.   You'll fall in love with today's DIY tutorial, which will make your creative light shine bright inside you... I know, I know, that was pretty bad wordplay. In deed, what we are going to show you is how to make a lamp out of one of our cardboard boxes, more specifically, out of our famous, acclaimed and widely known picnic box (round of applause). So, without further...
Hip and cool Fortune cat: DIY!
30 Oct
Today’s tutorial is so simple it’s laughable, so much so that we won’t call it a tutorial. Let’s just leave it as a cool idea to dress up any spot in your house or business.   Do you know what Fortune cats are (also known as Chinese Cats)? Those traditional figurines you find in every pound shop, waving their little paw non-stop with while they smile at you enigmatically? Well, we love them: they have that kitsch touch that can make something horrendous...
Window dressing ideas for modern market stallholders
29 Sep
The invaluable Marta from the 2nd funniest thing came up with, wrote and photographed this post. Our boxes are multi-purpose and have a lot to offer in the area of window dressing for fairs and markets. We are so sure about it we have decided to gather some basic advice for those already getting ready for the new season. Let’s begin. By definition, window dressing is the art of arranging goods adequately by combining design, objects and materials. Some of its aims...
How to make animal topped jars
10 Jun
Today we bring a tutorial which is as cute as a button, you are going to melt like an ice cream when you see the pictures. We now spend all day sighing every time we see our paper clips and little buttons in these animal topped jars.   We had already seen them in different places, and we were dying to try and make them. We had even found some shops selling them at incredibly high prices. So we have decided to go for it and we have made them. We have relied on...