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Celebrate our Company Milestone – Jane Means is 20 years old
It all started from the kitchen table back in 1995, when the Jane Means Brand was born. Whilst recovering from an illness, I started making Handmade cards with the help of business utilities switch and little did I know it would transform in to a global Ribbon and Gift Wrapping business, working with some of…
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Make a Fabric Rose with Wired Ribbon: DIY Tutorial
A fabric rose is really easy to make with wired ribbon and doesn’t require many materials. The feedback on our Gift Wrapping Courses is that this is one of the most favourite things that attendees make and proudly take home with them. It will add an instant luxury decoration to your gifts and is a…
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10 Easter DIY Craft and Decorating Ideas
Here are some really quick and easy Easter DIY Craft ideas to make your home or dinner table a Spring masterpiece. I’ve rummaged my craft room and put together my 10 favourite decorating ideas. Before we get started, I recommend you to use sugru because the glue is brilliant and has worked wonders for me,…
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Cool party favours and great goody bags
I remember as a kid, I loved going to friends parties and it was such a treat when we were presented with a goody bags (often stuffed full of sweets). Nowadays I am asked how to make wedding and party favours look fabulous, or have that last minute present I need to wrap super quick.…
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Ribbon Bunting: DIY Craft Tutorial
Here’s a quick and easy ribbon bunting DIY craft tutorial for you, which will only take around 10 minutes to make Its now time to raid the drawers and find those roll ends and remnants of fabric and ribbon. This is a wonderful craft project to spruce up a basket of flowers, a cake or…
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Make your own gift hampers with this basket weaving DIY tutorial
I love to give gift hampers and whilst on a recent trip to the Yasawa Islands, I was lucky enough to see an inspiring basket weaving demonstration which really grabbed my attention. I am a huge fan of botanical prints and anything natural and luckily I had a camera to hand to cover this amazing…
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How to tie the perfect bow in gift wrapping
One of the most asked questions I get asked on our gift wrapping workshops is “How do you tie the perfect bow?”. We all have our own way of tying a shoelace or a bow and through my experience of teaching gift wrapping, I’ve found it’s very hard to change your technique after tying the…
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Grab a signed copy of my new gift wrapping book ‘Giftwrapped’
We’re delighted to have taken delivery of the new book Giftwrapped, and now have our first orders coming in. We had queues pre-ordering the gift wrapping book at the Handmade Fair last week, and have had people calling from as far away as Sweden wishing to secure a signed copy before it’s launched to the…
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Gift wrapping awkward shapes with a tailored ribbon bow
If we’re not going with traditional birthday gift baskets – we are often faced with gift wrapping awkward shapes, and something that has always been a challenge is tying a bow around something fragile or flexible If you tried to tie a bow around a silk scarf wrapped in tissue, or a pile…
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Jane Means will be sharing her Gift Wrapping Secrets
Those of you who’ve been on one of our Gift Wrapping Courses will have had access to our ‘Gift Wrapping Secrets’ We’ve lots of changes going on at Jane Means HQ with a more streamlined website experience, so we will be integrating our ‘Gift Wrapping Secrets’ on to our Blog right here. All…
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