Creative Jewish Mom has this simple tutorial on creating your own very funky, very colourful glasses using glitter glue and glass paint. They’re great for adding a bit of colour to your home, but would be absolutely perfect for weddings or other celebrations once painted to match the colour scheme. I have about 28 of these tealight holders from Ikea left over from our wedding (five years ago, yes, I am a hoarder!) that would be far more likely to [...]

Jen from A Thousand Words created this amazing duvet/doona/quilt cover for her son, Daniel, using fabric markers on a plain white duvet… the best bit about it? Those are all Daniel’s drawings! Enlarged and dutifully traced by his mum in a project that took her more than twelve hours work to complete. This is such a wonderful way to preserve and display drawings, and the finished effect is so graphic and modern it looks like the kind of kooky bedding [...]

Melbourne cup is less than a week away, only a few days left to get your craft on and create a totally unique fascinator to wow everyone at the track. Below is a round up of my favourite how-tos from around the web, using everything from the standard feathers and flowers, to zips and even a USB cable. Clockwise from top left… Laura Howard shows how to create a felt headband using recycled jumpers. Lindsey of Shrimp Salad Circus made [...]

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 [...]

Seventeen year old Shealynn is far more constructive than I was at her age, and instead of being the wild child that I was, is spending her free time created beautiful art work and tutorials and sharing them with the Internet. Way to go Shealynn! She recently shared this lovely tutorial for creating a beautiful clock out of an old book, including details on how to fit the mechanism into the pages, create the cleanest cuts and even alter the [...]

  Megan from The CraftyCPA created these funky coasters using tiles, paint chips and Mod Podge, she offers a full tutorial and tips, as well as a few things she would change if she were to make them up again! Megan mentioned how awesome they would look in a monochromatic range of chips, and she’s not kidding, I think they would be awesome in various shades of purple. See Megan’s full tutorial here.

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 [...]