Craft Club Box

Here at The Amazing Blog we love crafting—but sometimes we find that we don’t have the time or patience to gather ideas and all of the supplies for new projects. Luckily, Craft Club Box takes care of that problem for us! 

The monthly subscription service delivers a sewing kit and instructions for one complete project plus extra crafting supplies to grow your collection, along with a complementary eMagazine. The kits are suitable for all ages and levels of sewing experience, so they’re perfect whether you’re old or new. We think Craft Club Box would also be the perfect gift for your friends or family! To give you an idea of what it's like, February’s box called “Go Nuts For Doughnuts!” featured an incredibly cute stuffed doughnut pincushion project, complete with a full set of instructions, needles, pins, felt, thread, and surprise extras.

The boxes cost £10 per month plus £3 p&p and can be purchased in increments of 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months (save up to 10%). If you’re interested in getting crafty or purchasing a subscription for a friend, check them out here!

Gift Fripery Workshops

We have all been in that position where we have spent ages carefully selecting a gift for a loved one, only to gift wrap it and find that it looks anything other than special! At The Amazing Blog, we believe that appearance matters, and so we think every pressie should look perfect. If, like us, you struggle with your gift wrapping skills, don’t panic, because professional gift wrapper, Amanda White, from Gift Frippery, is on hand to teach you everything you need to know. Amanda hosts regular gift wrapping workshops that can turn even the most novice of gift wrappers amongst us into a wrapping extraordinaire.

Amanda offers two or five hour gift wrapping courses that can teach you all the basics from how to create bespoke gift tags to the wrapping techniques to master awkward shaped gifts – we are all thinking of wine bottles! Her course also involves teaching different styles of gift wrapping – including upcycling techniques to recycle old materials and transform them into beautiful gift wrapping.

Don’t worry if, like me, you are a useless wrapper, Amanda believes that, ‘what most people lack is inspiration, but I think I’m quite good at unlocking that creativity, then there’s no stopping them!’ So there is hope for us all. With Christmas approaching faster than we would like to think about, now is the best time to improve your gift wrapping skills.

 If you would like to find out more about attending one of Amanda’s workshops than visit the Gift Frippery website for more information, a five hour workshop will cost you only £50 per person and includes all the materials you will need. Gift Frippery also hold DIY Wedding crafts workshops to teach you how to create beautiful, personal touches for your special day.

Fairwind Bird Tiffins

Have any camping adventures lined up for this summer? Want to put a stylish edge to your camping gear? Fairwind fair trade gifts are perfect for camping and have new camping items for you to look at! Whether its wet and muddy or sunny and bright, Fairwind has a magnificent selection of their new beautiful hand-painted tiffins. These tiffins are great for festivals around the city, camping, or even to lay around your house. While camping these decorated bird tiffins are not only easy to use with 3 bowls piled on top of each other, they come in three wild colors (green, red, or light blue) so they are easy to spot out right away. They can be sed to store food and biscuits, perfect to bring on a picnic, or used as serving bowls to really blow your friends and family away.

All Fairwind products have been hand painted by crafts people in Kasmir and are safe for food. If you enjoy the brand new bird tiffins being offered this summer, you would also enjoy the other products offered such as bowls, mugs, camping sets, cups, trays, and jugs. I absolutely love finding new items to bring with me on my camping adventures in the summer while also trying to have that edgy look to them – as a fashionista that I am.

Glam up your camping gear with Fairwind bird tiffins for only £39.50 and while your looking, pick up a few other camping products – I know I sure will!