just the right size for a small bottom.

We’ve got a bit of a love of stools at our place. Often the three kids & I are found sitting perched on little stools in front of the gas fire.

This little toad stool is constructed from a tin can, a round placement & the foam from the other day as well as a little extra stuffing. The can has been weighted to keep it stable.

For the price of a few screws & a couple of hours of your time you could make one of these yourself.

A lovely gift idea I think.

Another USB pincushion. This one is a collaboration with The Big Girl.

We’ve decided that we’re going to give these as Christmas gifts to our family kid friends & currently have a bit of a zoo in production.

I think it would be pretty hard to lose a USBee & certainly it would be easily identified if it ever got pinched.

OK, so I didn’t anticipate such a favourable reaction to yesterday’s shelves…thank you so much.

Now I’m going to look like a big fat show off & for that I apologise.

On Saturday the HAC girls & I were chatting about making stuff & cool crafty tools & Justine & Cindy were talking about a lazy susan cutting mat that a friend (edit: ack…apparently it was Kate’s – clearly my mind had already wandered) had. I think there may have been a casual “challenge” thrown in for good measure…red rag to a bull.

So on Sunday morning I made the lazy susan using bits & pieces we had lying around the house… old placemat, laminex top (I think from an elfa storage system), old container lids, my trusty baby bosch, a couple of screws, bearings & this divine fabric from the lovely Clutterpunk to give the whole thing a lovely crafty feel.

It measures 450mm x 300mm so it’s big enough to hold the next size cutting mat as well & best of all you can use your multi tasker on the table top & then you have a lazy susan ironing board.

No more deep squat & turns for me…I prefer not to mix my craft & exercise.

OR fitting a square peg in a round hole.

I had originally purchased only 1 tube to make a toy box for the smallest…it kicked around the floor of the craft room for a while & I’d done nothing with it.

All the while I’d been enjoying posts from this tumblr.

I hope it was worth the wait.

Spool holder made by me using bits and pieces I had on hand.

Pretty shadows too.

I guess it qualifies as an Ikea hack.

I have a free standing spool holder which is excellent but what I like about this is the fact that it hangs (leaving valuable shelf/table space free for more clutter).

You can see the evolution of the idea if you like…

spool rack + surplus pencils + bargain threads = something I’m proud of

I’m thinking about making these in smaller sizes & maybe hosting another HAC workshop.