Crafty Loops

 Craft Room Ebay Sale Reminder Whatabout ye folks, it's Lee here.  Just a quick reminder that my First Craft Room Clear Out Sale on Ebay will be over in just over 24hours, Saturday 13th at approx 7.30pm.  So, grab yourself a bargain HERE .  And if not this time, I will be listing more items this coming week.  Enjoy! Toodles Noodles.....Lee aka Crafty Loops xx

Craft Room Clear Out - 1st round of EBay sales I did say in a previous post that I wanted to do another Craft Room Clear out.  My crafting has taken different directions as I am sure you have noticed.  That is not to say that I am not ever going to make flowers or journals again.  No way will I stop that, teehee.  However, I have a room full to the brim of items I have purchased and collected for well over a decade.  The majority of the items have never even been removed from their packaging or used which is honestly, an absolute crying shame.  I do not want to have a plethora of items.  I could genuinely kit out a Craft store with the amount of products I have.  And it feels wrong to have it all sitting there not being used.  I want to see these items going to good homes.  So, I will be listing them on EBay for UK bidders only.  Sorry about sticking with the UK, but it just becomes too much work if I have to sell abroad and I'd be ...

 This is a different kind of post, I'm not sharing any makes today.  But I wanted to talk to you about something that might be a bit controversial within the Arts & Crafting Community. I must have written this post maybe 6 or 7 years ago but wasn't sure if I should post it as, I didn't want to upset anyone.  However, the more and more I thought about it, rewrote it and tinkered with this post, the more I felt compelled to share it.....even if it's a bit controversial.  And the subject relates to Design Teams and the issue around whether the Designer should get paid a wage and not just paid in products. I know there are going to be varying opinions about this but please hear me out.  I think as Crafters, we tend to undervalue our work a lot and I think this plays a major role in how Design Teams work....and possibly take advantage of that fact. If you want to hear more about my thoughts and opinions of Crafters,  commissions, "favours" and paid work, ple...

 Handmade Laptop Bag - Lupin Laptop from Blue Calla Patterns Whatabout ye folks, it's Lee here.  I am back again with another Blue Calla Pattern Bag.  This time I thought I would try my hand at making a laptop bag.  Early last Summer, my brother, Jamie (or Miwadi, as I affectionately call him) asked me could I make him a laptop bag for work. Being pretty new to bag making (and this is still the case today, teehee), I wasn't terribly confident about this request as I just didn't know where to begin or if there was even a pattern available on the world wide web for this type of bag.  However, at that stage, he did say that if I wanted to forget about the laptop bag and make his son, Alfie, a Buzz Lightyear Backpack , he'd go with that instead.  So, of course I made Alfie the backpack  as I had already made a few of those in the past.  But, I felt kinda bad that I didn't make Miwadi the laptop bag all because I wasn't confident enough to try to...