Merry Christmas and happy new year from my family to yours! I’m looking forward to an awesome year of crafts and excitement in the year ahead of us! Thank you for reading!

Stop the press guys… A while back I pinned this super cute romper from Erin at Lemon Tree Creations, with the promise that if Hercules was a boy, I would be making it for his Christmas outfit. Turns out that Herc was Ronan, and so it was time to get stuck into my Christmassy fabrics. (and FYI, if Herc had been a girl, I would have been making this sunsuit from Made By Rae in Michael Miller’s Yule Critters in [...]

Well I wish I had the exact tutorial, but everyone has their own methods, mine apparently involves several months of tears, 33 weeks of baking time, and eventually 21 hours of labour, but after all that I would like to officially introduce the newest member of my family to the CraftBlog readers. Ronan Clay Treacy was born safely into the world on the 22nd of November, just a little bit undercooked at 2.36kg (just over 5lbs) but otherwise perfect in [...]