Okay, I’ll admit I’ve never entered a craft contest, but I’ve always wanted to. Here are a couple of interesting contests that you should enter!
Indie Home Decor Challenge - Send a picture of your DIY home decor project and have a chance to win some really cool indie craft prizes. This contest ends June 18th.
PEEPS [...]
I just moved from one apartment to another this weekend. Moving is stressful and difficult, to say the least. However, it’s gotten me to think about my craft space and how I want to organize it.
I wish I had a whole room to dedicate to crafting, but I’m lucky to get just a [...]
I wanted to share one of my favorite new blogs with you: Millie Motts. She is a self-proclaimed collector of all things 1940s-60s, and she shares all kinds of awesome photos on her blog. Here’s one example of the great pictures you’ll find on the blog (From a post entitled “banana appeal”):
Check out Millie [...]
Since I’ve been talking about baby hats lately, I thought I would share this awesome way to get involved and make a difference in the life of a child.
Save the Children is calling on knitters (and non-knitters willing to learn) everywhere to knit newborn baby hats to send to newborns around the world. [...]
There have been so many awesome crafts being circulated for the Easter holiday. I thought I’d share some of the fun Easter crafts that I’ve found around the web.
GENERAL CRAFTS
These adorable egg matryoshka dolls look worth making!
Easter window clings are perfect if you have children.
There’s a cozy for everything, including one for [...]
I wanted to pass along a great new craft blog I found. They’re called The Village Shop, and they feature fun tutorials and craft ideas.
During March they’re also sponsoring four giveaways. The first one ends tonight, so head over to this post and leave a comment to win the first giveaway.
I’m looking forward to more [...]
I wanted to mention a few things going on in the craft world.
First, have you checked out CrochetMe lately? The site got a whole new look, but more importantly, they changed it so that the members of the community (i.e. you) are the ones who submit patterns, tips and ideas. Pretty cool! I just signed [...]
Okay, the Yellow Daisy Craft Festival was ginormous! There were over 500 booths, and it was over two miles worth of walking through it all. It was a bit overwhelming.
There were all KINDS of different crafters and crafts there. I’m talking jewelry, furniture, clothing, clay, blown glass, marbles, wooden [...]
I’m attending my first craft festival tomorrow! I’m so excited. It’s called Yellow Daisy Festival, and it takes place at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia. They say it was voted the #1 arts and crafts festival in the nation…we’ll see!
Anyone ever attended this? I’m not sure what to expect, but I’ll post pictures if I [...]
- The winners of Craftster’s Reusable Shopping Bag challenge are listed here. I love what everyone’s doing with fused plastic bags these days.
- Check out this super-mega-adorable Faux Fur Bag from Lisa at U-Handbag. I don’t usually go for wild trims on bags but I’m totally digging this.
- Remember those great eyeball pincushions from my [...]
There’s a new challenge up at Craftster and it combines creation of a reusable shopping bag with stenciling. Leah was inspired by a project called Morsbags Sociable Guerilla Bagging wherein people get together to make reusable cloth shopping bags for themselves and to give to others. From the post:
“So your challenge is to create a [...]
In preperation for my next tutorial try-out I was surfing the internet for inspiration. So I will leave you with these amazing links and will be back later this week with a brand new tutorial try-out. (You can probably already guess what it is about.)
Yarn and Coffee wrote a very interesting step-by-step walk through the process [...]
Easter is almost here, are you ready? I have been trying quite hard to find some inspirational links and fresh tutorials for Easter but so far I have only come up with these, most of them can also be found via Crafster’s new Easter board here
Thread eggs at BH & G Magazine
Via Maize Hutton I [...]
I have had an extremely busy weekend so unfortunately no tutorial try outs today. Here are some inspirational links to keep the crafty-juices going though.
Look at these extremely cool robots.
Very pretty birds at While She Naps.
And Moonstitches has posted a tutorial about these incredible owls! I have been checking them out for weeks and they will definately be [...]
Another 5 links to keep you inspired this week!
Gooseflesh Amazing crocheted sea creatures by Gooseflesh.
Majeak Ann Extremely cute and beautiful illustrations by Majeak Ann.
Sony My favourite televison ad by Sony, don’t forget to listen to the music by Jose Gonzalez too.
I found TAF via Bloesem a Swedish company that make ordinary every day things extraordinary.
Peter Callesen I had been on this [...]
Through all my surfing on the internet I see so many people making great stuff.
Please find below 5 inspirational links from amazing bloggers:
Futuregirl Futuregirl’s amazing handbags and now one for herself, very pretty!
Thimble Thimble writing about the stichette tutorial by Wee Wonderfuls.
Little Birds A peek at Little Birds Handmade new finished craft room.
Bella Dia The little pink house by Bella [...]
I spend a lot of time surfing the net, no let me rephrase that I spend waaaay too much time surfing the net. Since I have only been introduced to the world of blogging for just over a year, most of time is spend lurking at other people’s blogs. There are soo many little communities [...]
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