If you have a stash of discarded neckties lying about your home, then I've got great ideas for you to give them a new lease on life. Turn them into beautiful lampshades or patchwork cushion covers or tiebacks for curtains. Full instructions to cover a lampshade and make a patchwork cushion cover included. Mabel van Niekerk's main passion in life is travel. She enjoys writing about her many travel experiences and documenting reference books to provide more information about towns and cities in countries she found fascinatingly different from her homeland, South Africa.She is also passionate about crafting and enjoys writing reference books about the various crafts she has mastered and enjoys.Mabel has now turned her hand to writing books for young children, as she recalls the stories she told her own children many years ago.
