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 [...]

When I was in the first year of school I remember making a Christmas card for my Mum, a big green hand print covered in sequins and glitter glue, I loved that card and was so proud when she displayed it all year around despite it being Christmas themed. I LOVE hand print art, it’s easy to do and creates a great snapshot in time of your little one, here’s a collection of some of my favourite body prints that [...]

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 [...]

CraftBlog is officially one month old! Thank you to the just over 6,000 people we’ve had come here already and take a look around, and an even bigger thanks to everyone who took the time to subscribe to our feed so they could keep on reading, and then an even bigger thank you to everyone who’s written about CB in forums and blogs and recommended us as good reading fodder. The feedback from everyone’s comments and emails has been great, [...]