I love the classic look of silhouette profiles, and they’re a great way to keep track of how your family’s features change over time, cheap and simple to do. You will need Black card Scrapbooking paper Frames – I also picked up some acylic paint to stain them black Sharp scissors or a craft knife A clear picture of the profile of your chosen person and a printer Lets get started Print out your photo – it doesn’t have to [...]

Only a mild fail this week with a canvas that went wrong, making this week officially better than the previous one! I’ve been wanting to make up some silhouettes of the boys for a few months now, but I rarely visit the paper section of any craft stores and so kept on forgetting to pick up the black card. I’m super happy with how these came out, they only took about half an hour each, and I had a lot [...]

Please welcome Christie Burnett of Childhood 101 to CraftBlog! In preparation for her daughter’s second birthday, Christie made an easy three point felt pirate hat and kindly shared the tutorial with us.  And in the tradition of all great pirates, this hat is unique… it’s pink! What you’ll need About 1/2 metre felt (of course, it depends on the size of the head you are making it for!) Sewing machine or needle and thread for hand sewing Decorative touches – contrasting [...]

I read A LOT of craftblogs, I love the huge amount of inspiration out there on the internet and the generosity of people wanting to share their skills with the world. So yesterday when I stumbled onto Knock Off Wood after finding a link on Craft Rookie, I was gobsmacked. I sat there for a couple of hours and read through Ana’s entire archive, and promptly made a list of every single project I wanted to make – preferably before [...]

Between going away for the weekend, and spending the week preparing for going away for the weekend, I haven’t managed to get much done this week. What I did get done was enough to consider this officially a week of craft fail. There was a failed playmat for a new baby in the family on Monday. It’s now sitting in an angry heap to the side of my sewing table where I occasionally swear at it and bemoan the fact [...]

My lovely friend Shanni showed off her new camera strap the other day and I was instantly jealous. I have no idea why it had never occured to me to cover up the big chunk of black with “EOS” written all over it, so, inspired by Shanni’s purchase, I set about giving my camera strap a facelift. This is literally a tube of fabric, so it’s a great beginners project and it only took me about fifteen minutes, so perfect [...]

Rachel from Melbourne asks: My gran gave me a couple of jelly rolls for Christmas and I’m a bit stumped on whether I’m supposed to pre-wash them or not? (or even if i’m able to).  To wash or not to wash? I’ve confessed before that I am not a washer, the quilting world is pretty much divided when it comes to washing yardage, and I sit firmly on the side of no. Unwashed fabric has stiffening agents that I find [...]

Tiffany Bird of Simply Modern Mom recently wrote about making over her master bedroom on a budget. The transformation was amazing, turning a fairly standard mismatched bedroom into a sanctuary within her home. One of the things that stood out for me were the tree canvases above the dresser, like most artwork they’re simple but very effective. Tiffany has posted a quick tutorial explaining how you can achieve the same look at her blog, all it takes is some canvas, [...]

Remember the Moo Cards I used on our Christmas gift tags? Well the season is now very much over (although I still have yet to pull our Christmas tree down!) and I’m left with about 50 cards with pictures of the family on them and “Love, Fern, Dan, Declan, Connor & #3″ written on the back. About half of them have gone to my mother in law so she can keep a stack of photos of the grandkids in her [...]

I make a lot of little bits and pieces that don’t tend to make it on to the blog, I’m not entirely sure why, particularly as some of my quickest and simplest tutorials (The Notebook Cover Tutorial and The Pincushion Tutorial) end up being the most popular, but this year I intend to bring an end to my unsung crafts that are hiding away and make a weekly post talking about what I’ve been creating over the week. I went [...]