SUNDAY READING : SWEET PAUL

Sweet paul is an online 'homemade and handmade' foodies mag which contains beautiful food styling and photography, as well as a great mix of content (including this issue's article about using food to dye fabric) and of course delicious recipes! My fave sections for the summer 11 issue have to be the soda shop and summer cake goodies. Definitely put it on your Sunday reading list!

gorgeous cover!

DIY decoupage vase (click to enlarge)

yum!

HAND MADE BUY OF THE DAY : DIY ANGRY BIRDS

First released by Rovio mobile in December 2009 for Apple, the game Angry Birds has since sold over 75 million copies worldwide and shows no signs of slowing down. The addictive puzzler is reported by wired.co.uk to be "the first waste of...time that can be accurately quantified. Every day, users spend 200 million minutes - 16 years every hour- playing the mobile game. Three trillion pigs have been popped." That's a lot of screen time! Enough for some to fall in love with the characters and want to crochet them into 3D friends? I'd say so..Check out this Etsy buy from The Itsy Bitsy Spider store; The patterns for all 6 birds are emailed to you for US$18 and you're able to start crafting within 24 hours. More smile-enducing patterns available online here.

PHOTO OF THE DAY : HAPPY VALENTINES!

Hope you all had someone to share a little love with today (romantic or otherwise!)

BRISBANE BUZZ : SAVIOURS OF THE LOST ARTS

For those of you who live for the revitalised "nanna arts" now is your time to shine. Brisbane City Council and Bleeding Heart have put together a great Festival called Saviours Of The Lost Arts. The events kicked off a couple of days ago and will run in to June.

FREE workshop series will be presented over two weeks, from May 24- June 5 and everyone is invited to get crafty. You don’t need any special skills, just a willingness to get involved. Craft types will include- dyeing, weaving, spinning, wood crafts, multicultural crafts, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, knitting, patchwork, ceramics, glass and metal crafts, beading, scrapbooking, lapidary, flower craft, decorative folk art, cake making and decorating and much, much more.

The workshop I'm most looking forward to is next Tuesday night's "Zero Waste Fashion" presented by 'The Stitchery' (QUT) and run by two very talented and lovely ladies (who happen to be QUT Fashion honour students *wink*) So hunt out that favourite ball of yarn and your sewing scissors and get crafting!

(head over to Bleeding Heart or Brisstyle for more info)