This is one of those projects that I’ve had in my head for months now and it just feels so good to finally get it done! This was originally destined for the glider that lives in my sewing room, but the boys have fallen in love with the texture on the chenille and I keep on finding that it’s made its way into their room. The chenille is quick to sew up, but takes a while to fluff – it’s [...]

Continuing the rainbow love with this beautiful crochet coin purse tutorial created by SparklePetal. If you’ve never added a zip or lined a crochet project before this is the one to start with, the tutorial is super detailed with loads of photos – perfect for beginners, or crocheters like me who haven’t picked up a hook in months!

My gobsmackingly awesome niece is due to turn eighteen next month and I’ve been wondering what to gift her for a while. I know I wanted to make her something, but I was unsure exactly what I could do. My boys were sitting down watching Sleeping Beauty, I was half listening as the fairy godmothers were blessing Aurora when it suddenly clicked, my niece needs to begin her adult life with a Fairy Godmother, and that’s exactly what I made [...]

Creative Jewish Mom has this simple tutorial on creating your own very funky, very colourful glasses using glitter glue and glass paint. They’re great for adding a bit of colour to your home, but would be absolutely perfect for weddings or other celebrations once painted to match the colour scheme. I have about 28 of these tealight holders from Ikea left over from our wedding (five years ago, yes, I am a hoarder!) that would be far more likely to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  Megan from The CraftyCPA created these funky coasters using tiles, paint chips and Mod Podge, she offers a full tutorial and tips, as well as a few things she would change if she were to make them up again! Megan mentioned how awesome they would look in a monochromatic range of chips, and she’s not kidding, I think they would be awesome in various shades of purple. See Megan’s full tutorial here.

Maryanne on half of the sister team that writes Australian craft blog, SewTogether has put together this tutorial on how to create your own flat bottom zippered purse with angled sides, perfect for make up bags, stashing small toys in, or make it up in oil cloth and you could use it to carry snacks! Even better, Maryanne has given detailed instructions and diagrams on how to draft your own pattern, meaning that you can make a bag in any [...]

Sydney based blogger, Little Betty has shared her pattern and tutorial to make this adorable sunsuit, perfect for the heat wave we’re going through right now, just remember to put some sun screen on those little exposed shoulders! See the tutorial and pattern here. Buy the matching bonnet pattern at Little Betty’s Etsy store.