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The last month has consisted of: A visit from my globetrotting mum… with three days notice. Custom quilts, custom slings, custom everything and me spending far too long bent over my sewing machine. Preparation for my first ever market. Disappointment on the lack of attendees to my first ever market. My youngest (FINALLY!) learning to [...]

If you’re a regular reader of CraftBlog you’re probably aware that I was pregnant and expecting our third child, due on the 19th of March. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be. At exactly 36 weeks gestation my baby’s heart stopped beating in the early hours of the morning. I was induced and delivered a baby [...]

I’m welcoming in the fresh decade with a new look on CraftBlog. I’ve been chipping away at this design for ages now and I finally feel like it’s ready to be launched. This is the first time the design has gone live to this level of traffic, and on a brand new spanking server, so [...]

Here’s looking forward to a fresh year filled with craft, inspiration and beautiful design. Thank you everyone who has visited the site, the businesses that have participated in giveaways, everyone who’s linked to and written about CB and everyone that has commented and sent me emails. Your support is awesome, and keeps me going when [...]

Although I’m running a little late with this one, I wanted to get back into them again, it’s a great way to keep up with how things are changing on CB and highlight some of the long forgotten tutorials! Septembers most popular posts have been… Fantabulous Pincushion Tutorial Caterpillar Softie Tutorial Trick Or Treat Tote [...]

I’m off, with kids in tow, for a week of fun and games with two of my sisters, my brothers in law, niece and feotul nephew. I shall leave you in the capable hands of my husband, chief of moderating comments and answering any emails that come in, and Ethan Watters will also be making [...]

Not a huge post, but I wanted to update everyone and say that I am finally back online, woohoo! My life has entered its own little personal hell, in the last two months (personal blog post here if anyone is interested) but now I have the interwebs and connections to all my online friends and [...]

Turns out my laptop is officially KO, so the lovely hubby is building me a desktop, hopefully services on CraftBlog should resume within a week, this computer free time has lead to some awesome ideas which I’m very excited to share with you. Once again, sorry about the downtime, this thoroughly sucks

What a year! As we head into 2009 I would like to say thank you to everyone who has commented, linked to the site, added us on Twitter, played S&T, stumbled on the posts, contributed links and posts, added photos to the flickr pool, subscribed to the feed and everyone for being generally wonderful. I [...]

CraftBlog is now officially on Twitter! We can found at… http://twitter.com/craftblog At the moment I’m using it primarily to post links to great tutorials or crafty sites, any sales that I find and announcements of new posts on the blog, feel free to follow “craftblog” and keep up with the goings on! And if you’re [...]