As crafters, we love to cut stuff up, nothing is safe from the blade in my house. My favourite craft, quilting, is basically cutting up bits of fabric, into even smaller bits of fabric, and then sewing them all back together again, which seems totally logical at the time, but when you write it down like that you have to wonder if we should all really be carted away and sectioned. I’ve been getting progressively more and more fed up [...]

There’s no denying that Halloween is becoming more and more prominent each year in Australia, and I’m a firm believer in the “if you can beat them, join them!” mentality… just so long as I don’t break the bank on decorations that are only going to be up for a week or so! Which makes these spider webs from Jessica Jones, made using bin bags, absolutely perfect. Minimal layout, and when you’re ready to take the down you don’t have [...]

The Aesthetic Writer created this beautiful and super handy dry erase calendar using paint chips, cut into squares and set behind a glass frame. The glass is wipeable so your white board markers come straight off when it’s time to begin a new month. This could be a great way to use up all those left over paint chips after decorating a room, and would mean that your calendar would co-ordinate perfectly, even better, pick up the frame from an [...]

Stephanie Lynn from Under The Table And Dreaming has a guest post on Brown Paper Packages detailing how to make VERY cute bowls from crocheted doilys, I’ve seen these done with starch before, but never with white glue (PVA/school glue) and I think they look awesome, a really cute way to store those little bits and pieces that you need on your desk. My local Salvos has a box that is constantly being topped up with new doilys, generally priced [...]

We’re always looking for new ways to add to our dress up box on the cheap, we’ve bought plastic crowns in the past, but they don’t often last more than a couple of days before they’re snapped or pieces start to break off! Jeromina from Paper, Plate and Plane posted a great idea for making crowns from plastic bottles with the addition of glitter glue. She offers a few different designs that you can just tape inside your bottle and [...]

Chris from ManMade has created this awesome, fully functional, iPod dock from gathered branches. Inspired by a similar dock at Anthropologie, Chris decided to make one for an absolute fraction of the price rather than the $100 than Anthro was asking for. In his tutorial he explains how you, with a drill “some sort of saw” and a spare iPhone or iPod cable can create your own version from a branch and a fallen tree limb. Even for a total [...]

I’ve been playing around with printable fabric recently, and have followed with great anticipation Curlypop’s journey to create something beautiful from a piece of fabric that she accidentally printed her Medicare statment on to. Cam over-printed a scan of one of her beautiful drawings to add more colour to the image, and sewed it up into a handy little pouch for those miscellaneous tissues and aspirin packets that lay around the bottom of every woman’s handbag. I love the process [...]

I always enjoy finding new uses for tshirts, so I LOVE this easy tutorial from SewLikeMyMom, with instructions on turning an oversized tshirt into a comfy skirt, just perfect for the summer that is fast approaching. This may even be the last boot up the bum I finally need to try my hand at shirring. See the full tutorial here.

I’m not a girly girl, I don’t “squee” very often, but I have to admit I let out a sound probably usually only reserved for images of puppies and ducklings when I saw these awesome garden markers. Take a trip to the opshop and pick up some old cutlery, hammer the hell out of it and then stamp the name of your plants and herbs into it using a letter stamping kit. I love the finished look, it looks like [...]

The team at Martha Stewart Crafts have another great tutorial up, this time, how to make very shabby chic candles from op-shop tea cups – although I think I’m being stiffed at my local op-shops, the only thing I ever seem to find is promotional mugs or weird beer themed stuff – never the dainty little chic tea cups, maybe I need to expand my search outside of Parramatta! My firefighter father in law will also demand that I need [...]