3 things to make
Make these beauties in an afternoon!
Buy Handmade
Owl and Frog Designs are one of our stall holders.
Around Australia - An activity book
A great childrens activity book out just in time for Christmas.
Hand Sew Along!
HANDSEWPATCHWORK SEW-A-LONG from the super cool zakka and patchwork blog, zakkaart.
Winter Crafts
This really is a great go to to get your winter craft creative juices flowing.
Washi Tape, 101 Uses for!
101 uses for Washi Tape...
5 things about Markimekko
5 things you may or may not know about Markimekko.
Lifetime Access to Sew School Online
Ever wanted to learn how to sew?
Craft Cubed 2014
Craft ( formally Craft Victoria) have a month of Craft Cubed running...
Creative Thursday
Have you seen this GORGEOUS book?
Pippit - An App
Pippit - the latest ‘thing‘ for our social media obsessed scene!
A lovely quilt mag
In a sea of quilting magazines - this one is a shining light!
Mothers Day Ideas
Five different things you could do for you mum this Mother‘s Day!
Lotta! A magazine..
We love Lotta and their lattest issue is all about ANIMALS
Rainbow Cupcakes
These look so happy and yummy!!!
XO - A Tutorial
Show someone you LOVE them by whipping up a pair of these cuties...
Pom Pom Madness
So many cute things can be made out of pom poms...
The School
Have you heard about The School??
Love, love me do
You know we love YOU...
The Red Car
Have you heard the news? We have a new family member...
Christmas and New Year Craft Action
Why not whip one of these awesome last minute Christmas crafts over the week-end...
Can you feel it?
Christmas is in the air! School holidays have begun for some and summer has kind of arrived.
nanoblocks
OMG!! We discovered nanoblocks the other day ( better late than never)...
Crafty Girl
Get your craft on!
Six Christmas Quilts
A quilt project for Christmas?
Quilt Pattern Book
Jen Kingwell has just release her 3rd pattern booklet and this one is a stunner:
Easy biscuits
The most easiest super yummy biscuits ...
Terra Australis
A new fabric range, "Terra Australis" from Emma Jean Jansen ( ex Ballarat Patchwork)
School Holiday time here in VIC
It‘s school holidays here in Victoria and here are some ideas to get your craft on with your kids:
All You Need Is Love
All you need is love ( and a great quilt)
Spring Clean
Spring is here and what a glorious season it is!
Birch Fabrics
Birch Fabrics, 100% Organic Cottons, treated with love not pesticides Created in an effort to provide an environmentally friendly cotton alternative to the quilting and crafting community.
Creativity
One of the coolest tutorials -DIY Sand Art Terrarium...
Fathers Day Gifts
Father‘s Day is just around the corner -- here are a few ideas to get you started...
Billie Jean Sewing & The Handmakers Factory
Sweet RETRO patterns avaliable from our favorite craft lady, Haby Goddess!
Making Softies
We talked about the AWESOME (Secret) Toy Society a few weeks ago...
Homemade Playdough
An afternoon of fun - cheap & easy - Homemade Playdough
Sew School - Online
The next round of sew-school with The Haby Goddess is about to start - July 29 - you can enrol now.
Pinterest Picks
A trip to ikea and a bit of imagination...
Winter School Holidays
It‘s freezing cold, its raining and the kids are BORED...
The Craft Sessions
Awesome new crafting workshop weekend here in the Yarra Valley...
Glitter LOVE
Let the glitter run free
Social Media Tips
Social network tips to grow your brand...
Autumn Craft
How BEAUTIFUL are all the autumn leaves all over the path way at the moment?
Colour & Sugar Free
Some sweet new colour sheets by Made by Joel and Sugar free treats...
Mother‘s Day
Last minute Mother‘s Day ideas...
Printstagram
I‘m sure we‘ve talked about Printstagram before...
Lest We Forget
How are your spending Anzac Day?
Lest we forget
Anzac Day 2012 - some rockin‘ craft action & of course Anzac cookies...
Handmaker‘s Factory
Local girls doing good!
Do you knit?
Do you knit?? We are looking for knitters who sell their wares.
Last minute Easter Crafts
There is still time to Easter up your place, especially if you are having a quiet one at home like we are! Here are 3 things you can create/cook tomorrow.
Easter Crafts
Some sweet little images to get you all inspired for the long week-end ahead...
Easter Crafts
There is so much out there in craft land for all things Easter. Here are TWO of the best...
St Patricks Day
St Patricks Day is tomorrow March 17, 2013 - Are you celebrating it?
The Haby Goddess - A Friend & Supporter
The Haby Goddess is expanding - to a retail premises!
Valentines Day - TOP 5 crafts
Come on! You know we had to jump on the band wagon...
Chinese New Year
2013 is the year of the snake...
2013 Printable Calendar
A super sweet motivational calendar for you to download for FREE!!!
2013! So nice to see you.
We are all back on board today! Hope you all had a great holiday, we are ready to hit 2013 with all we‘ve got!
Dreamcatchers
During the summer holidays I will be making dreamcatchers with my girls. I‘ve been searching the web and have found a heap of inspiration and some great tutorials.
Peppermint SUMMER
Peppermint summer, tickle the imagination and crafty mamas!
Advent love take 2
4 more TOTALLY AWESOME Advent Calendars!
Advent Calendar
Forget the mass produced chocolate ones from the supermarket, GET YOUR CRAFT ON!
A Hip Handmade Holiday!!
A Hip Handmade Holiday is a digital book with over 18 craft projects, 9 instructional videos, and over 100 printable pdfs, stickers, patterns, stencils, and gift tags.
Planning With Kids 2013 lunch Calendar
The Planning With Kids Family Calendar will be avaliabe for sale THIS SUNDAY at our Market!
Come down and meet Nic ( The Planning Queen herself).
Sewing Clothes
I just love the Colette patterns, they remind me of the Built By Wendy patterns. They are in no way at all daggy and they cater for the small chick right through to the buxom chick!
Tickle The Imagination
Sweet NEW(ish) online magazine called, Tickle The Imagination. Released bi-monthly, tickle the imagination aims to inspire creativity, showcasing talented artists, crafters and designers, discovering emerging talent and sharing real-life stories and diy projects.
3 Sweet Kids Costumes
3 rockin‘ kids costumes you can whip up today!! Forget about buying the mass produced costumes - show your love by taking some time and diy.
The Craft of Markets - An e-book
A FANTASTIC, INFORMATIVE e-book from two of our finest crafty ladies - Cintia & Jodie. If you are new to markets or want tips to improve what you do already - then this e-book is for you!
A VERY CUTE Quilt Block
I came across this VERY CUTE quilt block and also a new Quilting magazine.
AWESOME Father‘s Day Cards!
Some AWESOME Father‘s Day cards and a tutorial.
Father‘s Day
Father‘s Day - A very special day in our household as I am sure it is in yours.
Prints Charming at SPOTLIGHT!
I nearly fell off my chair today while looking at the latest spotlight catalogue.
Garlands/Bunting
Garlands - love ‘em or hate ‘em they are everywhere! I went searching for garlands that had that little extra something special about them. I was actually suprised by how beautiful they can be.
Things to think about!
Craft action, inspiration and something to think about!
Denyse Schmidt - Chicopee
Denyse Schmidt - Chicopee, a new fabric range that YOU WON‘T find in spotlight... Support your local independant store.
A BEAUTIFUL pattern booklet
A PATTERN BOOKLET by Jen Kingwell of amitie textiles.
Olympic Fever
Can you feel it? The Olympic Fever that is! Although I‘m feeling that‘s it‘s not so much about the athletes as it is about BIG BUSINESS & BRANDING.
Letter Writing
Let‘s go ‘old school‘.
Bizness Builder Workshops
Do you want to earn more from your market stall but not sure how? This Workshop will help you get more sales from your market stall by teaching you the tips and tricks of experts.
Pricing your handmade goods
Value your time, work and efforts!
School Holidays
Winter school holidays have just begun here in Victoria. What to do with the kidlets?
Crafty Mamas
Crafty Mamas have a wide range of fabric, notions, patterns and books that you may not find any where else. Free shipping Australia wide also.
Here are our picks of things that have just landed or are about to land instore:
Diggin‘ the geometric
Simple but yet so effective - geometric shapes.
Colour Palette Generator
Get colour porfiles from your favourite images.
Craft Action, Food & Hawaii
Readymade (RIP) & music from the islands and some YUMMY food!
Hula Hoops & Canvas
Cool canvas, hula hoop mat and a journaling tip!
Cute Tutorials
Fridge magnets, fabric gift pouch and a sampler quilt.
Toddler Chart & Matchbook Magazine
Toddler Chart worth doing and an exciting online magazine full of possibilities.
Crafty Mamas
Crafty Mamas is your one stop shop for craft goodness. They are friends and supporters of our market. Shop local and support small business. The turn around time on orders is quick as.
Did you know?
Three cool, crafty things you can do right now!
goodie bags
So many excellent things to do put together for Goodie Bags, here are a few of our favourites.
3 AWESOME tutorials
Week-end projects for the cooler months!
Crafty/Office Spaces
Get some inspiration for your home office/craft space:
Happy Easter
Hop hippity hop hippity hop!
Hobbies
I believe having a hobby helps you manage emotional difficulties and ills. Having a hobby is like a safety valve. No one can give you a hobby, you need to find it yourself, look around - there is one for you out there somewhere. Keep looking if you have not found one yet - you‘ll be the one who benefits!
Just Because!
People want to feel loved. We are all so busy, busy, busy! Take some time out and tell the ones you love just that.
Valentines Craft
There are lots of posts around about all the cool crafty things you can buy or make for Valentines Day.
Dare to be SQUARE! A quilting book
This ‘aint no nanna quilting!Straight seamed designs - bold reinterpretations of old-school patterns by Boo Davis. Boo spent much of her youth cozied up under her grandmother‘s quilt listening to Ozzy.
February photo-a-day challenge
Ok - we start tomorrow on The February Photo Challenge, are you in?
This will be so much fun, a way to connect with everything around you, to stop the daily grind and find inspiration in the simplest of things.
Our Market
Ist Makers Market for 2112 will be Sunday February 26 - love to see you there!
February photo-a-day challenge
We are all creative beings - how do you let your creativity flow? Taking photos and stopping to take a really good look at your surroundings is just one ace way to be creative.
WIP - How do you keep them organised?
How many WIP do you have on the go? How do you keep them all organised?
use the stash
I have so much fabric and I feel guilty for not producing ‘enough‘ crafty goodness. This coming year, 2012 is now going to be known as USE THE STASH year!
Washi Tape
Washi Tape - Utilising the characteristics of Japanese rice paper, each Masking Tape roll is textured and can be written on, is easy to remove and does not leave stains, offering an abundance of creative and decorative uses.
The Craft Persons Will
I got given a photo copy of this years ago. I‘m not sure who originally wrote it. I have just fancied it up a bit for you to download!
Instagram WE LOVE YOU!
Big, big fans of instagram. Here are our weekly LOVES.
Amy Butler Revisited
We are big fans of Amy Butler and doesn‘t she love her fans! - look at all these FREE patterns!
Fabric STASH
Well, I don‘t know about other crafters but I do know that at times my stash has been hidden. By hidden I mean, smuggled. Yep, smuggled into the house so I don‘t have to justify why I bought MORE fabric, when I have a room full of fabric.
Lark by Amy Butler
Stunning new fabric range from Amy Butler.
Smurf, smurf, smurf, smurf!
Papa Smurf is the leader of the Smurfs, and the only Smurf who wears red. He looks good in placticine too.
Time Management
The key to being productive is knowing what you want to achieve then making it happen.
Stitch ‘O‘Rama is now Perle 8‘s
Two craft groups merging!
School Holiday KIDS CRAFTS Pt 2
You must check out Kids Craft Weekly. So many awesome things for big and little kids.
School Holiday KIDS CRAFTS
Have you heard of "kids craft weekly"? It was started by Amber Carvan in 2006...
Fabric Shops in VICTORIA
This list is constantly updated and by no means exhaustive! Please leave a coment if we are missing a store you love.
Cake & Biscuits
Yummo!
Christmas!
Just to let you know that there are only 15 weeks until Christmas! So you might want to start working on your Christams project now!?
Blogging, Blogging, Blogging
A few days ago Jane shared with you her favourite blogs, today she gives you some blogging tips.
Free E-Books
I came across these free eBooks a while ago and they are jam packed full of informative information. I highly recommend signing up to get the new eBooks as they come out. Here are a few tips fro the Craft Show Success eBook.
Print your own fabric
Frankie & Swiss is here to offer you all things boutique in fabric.
Sundays & Sewing
A few Melbourne sewing blogs, an awesome fabric store and a Sunday well spent!
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