Button topped drawing pins

Being on a craft spending freeze does make me love the quick, easy and free makes! I've upgraded some plain old drawing pins by gluing some of my many many button to the top of them. Perfect for pinning crafting pictures to my noticeboards!

Makes i like this week 26-Mar-12

DIY sugar wrappers at Merriment design


Big Stitch Rug at Purl bee


Bobble Granny square at colour in a simple life


Magnetic Pin Dish at stay at home artist

Ribbon spools

I'm not brilliant at organising and im always envious when i see people with their amazing organised and colour coordinated crafting supplies (love this blog but it does make me feel a touch inadequate!) But when i saw this really easy spool template for storing your ribbons or threads then i knew i could at least manage that! I do despair slightly when i look at my ribbon stash, it looks like the Marley Cat's had a field day in there, so this was ideal for me. I cut out a variety of sizes of cardboard spool from some A4 kraft card i bought form ebay. Wrapped the ribbon round and secured them with a pin - done! Super easy and really effective :)