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 a guest post just to keep the fires burning. When I return I’m hoping my wonderfully crafty sisters will have pumped by brain full of [...]

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 of course online fabric shopping so things are looking up a bit. Hope everyone is well Now it’s time to get back to business!

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 have some HUGE plans for CraftBlog, as well as branching out a bit into a couple of other sites which I hope to announce later [...]

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 not “Tweeting” yet, I highly recomend it, my husband finally twisted my arm a couple of weeks ago and got me to sign up with [...]

My main goal this month was to hit 100,000 visitors, I failed! We ended up a couple of thousand short, boo to that, although I know some of it can be blamed on the downtime and how flakey our server has been over the last week or so. We will hit 100k in the next day or two which is awesome, thank you so much to the visitors, subscribers and everyone who has linked to the site Tutorials are fab [...]

October marked my first month back after Connor’s arrival! Thank you for everyone for reading and subscribing even though the posts haven’t been as frequent as I would like, hopefully November will pick up even more and I will be fully back into the swing of things – about as much as I can be with two children under two to look after anyway! Tutorials have once again reigned supreme! With these being the most popular posts in the last [...]

Introducing Connor Lorne Treacy, born Friday the 19th and weighing in at 3.5kg and 56cm! So far he’s doing great, although copping a fair bit of abuse from his big brother already! Although it may be quite a few years until he’s actually contributing, I’m sure he will be a fabulous source of inspiration for the blog and for my personal projects. Thank you for all the well wishes for both of us. I’ve had a week home from hospital [...]

There’s a hiatus here on CB, I am currently on my eighth day of sitting in a hospital bed, and I’m expecting to be here for another 16 more days (can you tell I’m counting down!?). My pregnancy has taken a turn for the worse as I developed PPROM at 34 weeks and I’m now on bedrest in hospital until they induce me at 37 weeks. I’m spending my time crocheting and doing embroidery and trying my hardest to keep [...]

Ack! Real life has hit CraftBlog hard lately. I’m currently at high risk for pre-term labour and I’m under strict instructions to take it easy and spend as much time horizontal as possible – a hilarious concept to anyone familiar with mothering a toddler! Because of this I haven’t been able to dedicate as much time as I would like to writing posts and creating tutorials, so for the next couple of months instead I’ll be highlighting my favourite tutorials [...]