I love an excuse to give and receive gifts, particularly if it involves trying a new craft or discovering a new independent maker. I have a couple of special women in my life that I like to gift items on Mother’s Day. My daughter Leah is always looking for ideas for me too! This has … Read more
We often get asked in the shop for help choosing gifts so we thought we’d put together a Christmas gift guide for the bead and craft lovers in your life. We’ve each chosen a product we think would make a great gift or we’d love ourselves. Hana’s gift suggestion My gift suggestion would be the Around … Read more
I was so excited when I discovered that Sculpey make a glow in the dark polymer clay, and in Premo too! Premo is my personal favourite as it’s stronger and more durable than Sculpey III. After a quick google image search, I was sold. It looked like it really did glow in the dark, and brightly too! I just had to see for myself. So, I had a go at making a few bits and bobs; a Halloween ghost (of course), some sweet charms to test out some adorable new cutters, and a simple octopus (why not!?)
I’m sure we’ve all been feeling a bit down and frustrated recently as we’ve hit one year since the start of the first lockdown. It’s been a long, tough year for us all. So we’ve been wracking our brains to think of some ideas to spread a bit of colour and joy. We’re lucky enough … Read more