When it comes to making someone smile, creating your own gifts always works! Make this fun flower for a grandmother, teacher, child care provider, friend, or for your Mom for Mother’s Day!

Pumpkin makeover – watch Shiho turn this plain pumpkin into a fancy flower pot. Great for kids! Here’s what you’ll need to get started: (1) pumpkin & carving tools, (2) raffia and a pair of chopsticks, (3) scissors, tape, cardstock, decorative scissors, & a Sharpie marker, (4) flowers. MUSIC: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite, by Edvard Grieg.

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Making a candy cane reindeer requires wrapping a pipe cleaner around the candy cane as antlers, gluing a red pom to the end for its nose and adding two googly eyes to the front. Create a candy cane reindeer using a few simple materials with instructions from an experienced craftswoman in this free video on Christmas crafts. Expert: Coral Stoudt Bio: Coral Stoudt has been a creative force in the arts and crafts world since she could walk. Filmmaker: Nathan Boehme

How to create a cool Father’s Day card using a recycled/discarded CD and CD case. As featured in NY Japion newspaper. Here’s what you’ll need to get started: (1) an old book (or magazine), (2) rubber stamps, (3) tape, scissors, exacto knife, (4) an unused CD w/case, (5) any available fabric. Music: “Oriental Strut” by Louis Armstrong.

The next single from Red Light Company, taken from the album Fine Fascination. Both are released Mar 2nd. www.redlightcompany.co.uk

Make a pop out christmas card with this easy to follow video with Leona from Artists Resource! See www.artistsresource.co.uk for more information.

How to use etching with your glass painting craftproject; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video. Expert: Angela Larsen Contact: www.PetalwinktheFairy.com Bio: Angela Sage Larsen has been a professional artist for 14 years, including running her own studio and gallery and painting murals coast to coast. Filmmaker: Ross Safronoff

THIS IS NOT A FLEA MARKET! Its a Matsumoto tradition and a fine craft fair known across Japan! I have to say: There are no resellers here its all original hand made and one of a kind stuff. The Annual Craft Fair in Agata-no-mori on its traditional last weekend in May is always a really nice event with a pleasant atmosphere. Its a real family affair and child-friendly. There is plenty of space to sit down on the grass and have a picnic, and watch the world go by. This event seems to be getting bigger every year. There are many more vendors and the park is positively bulging with visitors looking for something special to take home. The stalls here offer everything you could possibly imagine at a craft fair and then some. Some things you might expect: the knick-knacks and trinkets, beads and bracelets, from toys to furniture, cloth, clothes and fabrics, incense, candles and one of kind hand bags and shoes. Would you expect to find a working metal smith or a glass blower? Right there! Need a straw brush or bamboo works, hand made fabrics and beautiful Japanese pottery, ceramics, glass and fine carpentry. I even saw a clock maker and some one of a kind hand made watches! Theres a tent for everyone. Not sure what to get for that impressive birthday gift? Look no further! Wander about and have a look around. You will need some yen though, bargains are few & far between. All of the craft workers here are professionals not hobbyists. Cash baby cash! As for food there are a few …

Making flowers from crepe paper streamers is a great way to utilize leftover party decorations, and they can be created by gathering a streamer tightly around a wire pipe cleaner. Make crepe paper flowers for decoration with instructions from a former middle school art teacher in this free video on paper crafts. Expert: Lynn Reynolds Bio: Lynn Reynolds is a retired middle school art teacher of 34 years with a love for crafts. Filmmaker: Andrew Reynolds