Sometimes, I struggle with gift ideas all the way to the last minute before I leave for camp. This year, however, most of my ideas seemed to fall into place quite easily, and rather than my usual late nights trying to get it all done in time, this year I finished the first project almost a whole month before camp. […]
After a full year away from this space, what brought me back? To tell you the truth, I wasn’t sure I would come back. The longer the time passed, the harder it felt to just start. Life since my last post in September last year was insane. A 6 week stint working a whole lot on my photography business. Then […]
There’s something about the look of letterpress. So rich and tactile and just delightful, but one of those things that I admired from afar. Then I came across the Studio Calico letterpress class. It was reasonably priced, and included some fun stuff to get started. The class kit was reasonably priced. I didn’t have a manual die cutter, but I’d […]
The last day of school holidays upon us, we decided some quality crafting time was in order. Putting Beetle down for a sleep, I pulled open the toyroom cupboards, and was faced a multitude of craft kits and projects that had been collected along the way that we had to do. Needing something reasonably quick to set up, that required […]
I’ve been doing a spring clean of my Pinterest boards lately. It’s been on my to-do list for ages, and after spending far too long one day scrounging for something I KNEW I’d pinned, it was time. Helping the fact along was I had a spare hour or so while my mum watched children one to three, and I fed […]
Tunisian crochet has been on my list for a while now of “things to try” – I think it was Car who introduced me to it (oh come on, like THAT surprises anyone?), after we had a conversation about poor confuzzled husbands who weren’t quite sure what was crochet, what was knitting, and what the difference between the two […]
It must be getter colder, judging my the number of yarn crafts I’ve been blogging about! I first posted about my plan to make a cowl for myslef from this very pretty yarn (a gift from Kayscha at quilt camp 2011) this time last year. I was wavering on whether to frog it, or include the faults as “character”. In […]
Boy2 is dinosaur mad. He also loves diggers, and craft. So when “Can we do craft?” was answered with “sure, what should we make?”, he declared that “baby ‘wos-ah-wapter” (velociraptor) wanted a digger. Quite possibly, baby wos-ah-waptor is a wee big small to dig on his own, and with a long box that I’d had a backdrop delivered in, drooping […]
Last Christmas, both boys were given a Makedo set – little joiners and hinges to create “stuff” out of boxes. Boy2’s box showed a robot, and it has henceforth been known as “robot craft”. So late last week, the boy comes running up, “mummy, mummy, we does wobot cwaft?”, and so we hit up the recycling pile, one of […]
I pulled the mail out of the box, and squeezed. Hmm, something exciting there. Yep, addressed to me. What had I ordered? I scratched my mind as I flipped it over, and then saw the sender, and was even more excited. I’ve posted before about my pay it forward (which I’m slowly working through!), and this was my turn to […]
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