Cate Blanchett caused a stir last night when she turned up to the opening of Screen Worlds at ACMI wearing a traditional granny square blanket fashioned into a dress. News.com.au had this to say: OSCAR-winning actor Cate Blanchett has been nick-named Cate Blanket after stepping out in a colourful crochet patchwork dress to open Screen Worlds at ACMI in Melbourne yesterday. The jury is still out on whether the style queen made an unusual red carpet fashion faux pas when [...]

With the advent of online market places it’s become a lot easier to sell your handmade crafts, gone are the days of sitting out in the rain on a sunday morning at a craft market hoping that the right person would come along and see your wares. Now you can create, take some photos, write a bit of blurb and for a small fee sell your wares whilst you’re sitting in your pyjamas watching reruns of “Friends”. I’m about to [...]

This morning whilst wandering around the Lincraft website (yay for vouchers!) I stumbled on these, multifunction scissors. The blue ones include a retractable craft knife in one of the blades, the red ones include a tapemeasure snuck into the handles. I’m very torn on these, part of me is thinking that it’s an awesome multitasker that would make the folks over at Unclutterer proud, the other part of me thinks that, as someone who is notorious for forgetting where I [...]