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Because we all know the best things in life come in rainbow form! 1) Glitter fabric - I can't get enough of this stuff just think of the possibilities... Click here to get your hands on some sparkly magic fabric! 2) Rainbow washi tape - add it to anything and it instantly brightens up up any boring day to day objects that you might have - plus it's easy to apply and mess free to remove it! Click here to check out this super cute rainbow tape kit 3) Rainbow yarn - If you

Hello! A question that I get asked quite regularly is: 'How do you make your kits?' And my answer is always pretty simple - 'I just make them...I dunno!' But I realised the other day that actually I go through a process with each kit that is fairly similar - so here is how I make and design our craft kits! So here goes... STEP 1) Have an idea - this normally comes out of nowhere and will end up being hastily scribbled down in one of many mini notebooks I have scatter

We are all guilty of it! Myself included. You have a spare half an hour in the evening and instead of doing anything productive or beneficial we just sit and scroll through facebook or instagram - not even taking anything in...looking at endless age old memes and adverts. It's not a great use of time - but it's also not great for our mental health or concentration span. Here are some ideas of how else you could spend that time: 1) Read a book Too often we make excuses t

When you work for yourself your days are different to the 9-5 more than likely your hours more look like 9-10pm (2am if you get excited about a project! 3am if you can't stop thinking about ideas) It's hard to explain to people why you work way more hours than they do for ( especially in the beginning) for a lot, lot less pay. But the reason is simple! Passion (and a touch of madness!) When you run your own business it takes over your life. I mean this in a good way! If

So it's valentines day - that lovely soppy time of year when you get to tell that special someone in your life how much they mean to you. Whether you have somebody to celebrate it with or you don't - this year lets mix things up a bit. Instead take today as a day to remind yourself how great YOU are. You don't need chocolates and roses and supermarket teddy bears to tell you that you are incredible and that you deserve to feel loved by yourself. So here are a few tiny r

Hey guys, I've been working hard the past few days to make you all a little something! Seeing as it's february at the moment - quite possibly the most miserable month of the year....it's cold, wet, dark and we are all (myself included) still a bit skint from Christmas. I'm hoping this might give you a little bit of happiness! I've made you a free craft kit for those days when you just want to shut yourself away in the warm but still feel a bit productive. It's a dow