Posts Tagged ‘handmade’

I just realised there's a whole load of craft stuff I did last year and forgot to blog about because I was saving some of them for Christmas and didn't want to spoil the surprise…. Here's a hedgehog brooch I made for my friend Anwen's birthday Here's a really terrible photo of the beaded moth [...]

I didn't go out on New Year's Eve, but stayed home sewing instead. My mum gave me a lovely sewing box for Christmas, full of lovely coloured threads and vintage buttons, as well as new needles and scissors and all sorts of other goodies. (the colours are a bit weird on my photos because my [...]

Superstar dollmaker Louise Evans aka the Felt Mistress was recently given the opportunity to run wild and fill Selfridges with monsters, designed with her boyfriend Jonathan Edwards. I went and took some photos before they all disappear again on Christmas Eve. Fradley Benford Austin Flisk and Skeechy Dwippford Mr & Mrs Treep, with the twins [...]

Geninne's Art Blog: handcarvedstamptutorial [via Pikaland –

Was back at the St Aloysius Social Club again on Saturday, this time for the Bust Christmas Craftacular. More crowded than the previous two events I'd been to there recently, and entry wasn't even free this time! Although they were handing out a guide to the tables. It was a pretty shoddy guide, though, two [...]

On Sunday, I ventured out of the house in the moments between rain storms and went to Craftwerk at the St Aloyisius Social Club. I almost didn't make it out of the house at all, thanks to total DIY FAIL on the part of my stupid, stupid neighbours. They apparently decided a little while ago, [...]

It was a weekend of crafty/handmade/self-published/DIY goodness. And some DIY badness, thanks to my stupid, stupid neighbours (how do I hate my neighbours, oh let me count the ways). I went to Comiket on Saturday, part of this year's Comica festival, which was pretty cool. It was nice to catch up with some of the [...]