Live the arts & crafts lifestyle!
New products is the name of the game for Pat! She has the great role of searching high and low for arts and crafts products at shows and exhibitions. As a senior member of the marketing team she likes mixing old techniques with new technology.
I went into my garden this weekend and looked at how sad my garden pots looked and decided they needed a ‘60 minute makeover’. I wanted colour so I decided on mosaics. Doing mosaics is fairly simple. You need some tiles, cement, grout, sponge, tile cutters and of course some pots. If using old [...]
Traditionally Kanzashi were hair ornaments which were used in Japanese hairstyles. Nowadays the term “kanzashi” is applied to flowers made of folded cloth or to the technique to make these flowers. The Kanzashi Flower Maker contains a little plastic template and full instructions on how to make these delicate cloth flowers. Along with the template [...]
I am intrigued by origami and recently I was made aware of Akira Yoshizawa who had his paper folding skills celebrated on Google to mark his 101st anniversary of his birth. This Japanese-born artist turned origami from a children’s pastime into a serious art form and became known for his innovative folding techniques. Today blog [...]
Recently we introduced some coloured cane and I have been itching to use it in some weaving project. So I took some home with me last night and in about 3 hours came up with this colourful holder. To make something similar you will need a round plywood base (101mm dia.), natural cane 3mm (size [...]
Yesterday I went along to my first local WI meeting. The speaker at the meeting was a lady from the Foxton Locks in Leicestershire who gave a very interesting talk on the history of canals and as a finishing piece she did a demonstration on painting traditional canal folk art. In 20 minutes she produced [...]
