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 [...]

Sara from Creative Jewish Mom posted an fabulous how to with details on creating this beautiful flower bouquet, made entirely from felt! I know we’re in the wrong season, but this would be absolutely perfect for spring, or decorating a little girls room where you want the look of flowers, but don’t want the hassle of buying fresh flowers or dusting artificial ones. I may have also made a mental note to go and pick up some felt in different [...]

That’s notebook as in one of those old skool ones, with paper and lines and stuff, as opposed to the laptop type, does anyone remember them? I churn through notebooks at a furious pace, I have lists constantly on the go and a different notebook for every topic. I drool over the beautiful ones you see in the stationary stores but always hold myself back, notebooks are for me to scribble in, I know I would feel guilty defacing a [...]

Every week Arounna Khounnoraj posts a craft walkthrough on Bloesem Kids, they’re generally very kid focused and excellent for introducing different mediums to younger children. My son isn’t quite at a level to be able to do this yet, so this was entirely done by myself – I think I need to get my niece and nephew round for a day of art so I can thoroughly test all of the child related tuts that I have on my “to [...]