99p crackers that, I hope, don’t look 99p anymore.

Bought, unassembled, crap taken out, recovered, refilled (with sweets and scratch cards), tied up. Done.
Do excuse the scuzzy carpet in the background. I’ve been far too busy to clean.

Secretaries are not seamstresses.

“One third of Brit secretaries being asked to sew trouser seams …” If that is true, then that is rash.

No thank you very much

S-I-Y was bad enough, now the Independent have a making stuff for the home feature with the headline ‘The joy of M-I-Y’. WE DON’T WANT YOUR SILLY ABBREVIATIONS thank you very much.
We just call it ‘craft’.

Craft + Glasto = awesome times

Spingsteen? Blur? Nah! The Glastonbury craft fields were the place to be this weekend. There was some incredible to be seen and, as soon as I can get these frickin’ photos of my camera I’ll show you some on my crafty highlights (there was some cracking graffiti – which I reckon we can almost class [...]

An open letter to Amy Lame

Dear Amy,
I have a big apology to make to you. You were very kind and sent me a lovely bag of pom pom-related goodies – I let them sit in the corner of my room for weeks and weeks, and then some more weeks, and then some more.
But not anymore. Tonight I used the wool [...]

Art attack

Abi Whitehouse, an illustrator much championed by Guardian regular/illustrator extraordinaire Jonathan Edwards, is doing some crazy shizzle with doodles. There will be 100 copies of the first edition of Doodlezine (front cover shown below) and, from what I hear about her, it’s one to get your hands on.

Post #1 using Mr iPhone

I hope this works. What with the Maker faire earlier, and now a post written on a fancy pants new iPhone, Make and Do with Perri is getting all techie. Just call me the frickin’ whizz kid.

Thing-a-day 3

So far I have failed to make anything “proper” during February for Thing-a-day, but perusing the entries on the site has been all kinds of inspiring. Lovely illustrations, superb makes and some very friendly people.
I have, however, been making. Here is what …
At present my mum is making me a birthday cake. That can count [...]

People who make and do #4

Am so glad to have got back on to the forums again on Ravelry and Craftster, and am finding so many great people. Just had a message from Michelle, a lady who runs a e-zine and is based in London – she’s perfect for a project I’m working on for work at the moment. Find [...]

I’m back …

… and I will try very hard not to leave again. I’m now settled in to the flat and will be posting at least twice every week from now on.