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 [...]

Queen of the cake pops, Bakerella has created these beautiful new eyeball cake pops, just in time for Halloween. Spooky, and delicious at the same time, I can’t believe someone hasn’t done this already as cake pops are the perfect size and shape for creating edible eyeballs! A tip I learned after creating my own cake pops (these awesome Elmo ones for my youngest’s second birthday) is to keep an eye on the size of your ball, you’d be surprised [...]

I spotted this stitchable iPhone case whilst wondering around Pinterest a few days ago and fell in love with its simplicity and awesomeness, but at the same time, winced a little at the price (+ postage to Australia) and wondered how the stitches would hold up in my handbag, which inevitably seems to collect pencil leads (I only ever carry pens in there) and gummy sweets at the bottom, leaving pretty much everything that enters there covered in a sticky [...]

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 [...]

One of my favourite things from Connor’s hungry caterpillar birthday celebration was the little matching party hats I made up for him and his brother, let me refresh your memory with a very bored looking birthday boy… (Connor is 3 going on 13, he has already decided he is far too cool to have people sing “Happy Birthday” to him) The hats are great if you’re fed up of buying party hats that rarely last the day or to add [...]

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 [...]

With two boys in the house we have A LOT of bumps and bruises. A couple of weeks ago my eldest son took an impressive fall in our hallway and ended up bumping his lip pretty badly. The first thing he asked for (learned from preschool) was an icepack for it, I floundered and gave him a bag of peas wrapped up in a tea towel to do the job and vowed I should probably come up with a slightly [...]