I make stuff. Simple as that.

Crafts I Heart is a craft blog run by Becky. This blog features all sorts of artistic endeavors including quilting, paper crafts, jewelry, DIY, sewing and amigurumi - to name a few.

On the sidebar of the blog, there are links to detailed Tags which categorises posts by color, season (Autumn/Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer), public holidays such as Christmas and Easter, and the ever-popular Valentine’s day in February.
Becky has told me that one of her favourite elements in the blog is the Craft Room series. “I highlighted studios and craft rooms alike. I love to see all the crafty goodness, along with the storage and organization solutions.” Sounds awesome, right? Well, what are you waiting for? Head over to her blog and follow….like, now!

Beads and Knots is a little handmade jewellery business run by husband and wife team, Duncan and Daphne. In this partnership, Duncan is actually the crafter and Daphne helps out. She claims her dainty little hands are rather sensitive to all the tight knotting.

Beads and Knots was born of Duncan’s combined love for nautical knotting and gemstones, so jewellery-making seemed like quite a natural progression. After being spotted making himself a Jasper rosary bracelet, by one of his daughter’s friends, requests for bracelets started to come in from friends and work colleagues and then their wider Facebook fanbase and clientele, of which half are men.

Although Beads and Knots’ most popular items are bracelets, Duncan does make earrings, necklaces, watches and matching jewellery sets too. Their Crystal Pave bracelets seem to very popular along with Shamballa and Tibetan style bracelets. Other collections include Swarovski Austrian Crystal bracelets, Gemstone Chip bracelets and the bold Maori collection. Duncan crafts with a variety of gemstone and metal beads including snowflake obsidian, tiger eyes, agate and rose quartz, to name a few.

Beads and Knots are only on Facebook and are based in Gibraltar. At this time they don’t have an online shop, but that’s no reason not to “Like” them on Facebook. So head on over :D

The reason I began following PicaCraft is because I came across her awesome hand-stitched “mobs” from the video game Minecraft (pictured below). I’ve done my fair share of time in Minecraft (definitely a game worth checking out if you’ve never played it). It’s a bit like virtual Lego. Anyway…

The little lady behind PicaCraft loves to sew, cross-stitch, crochet and create other handmade gems.  Do check her blog out and follow :D

FYeahCrochetGoat is a meme-based craft blog and brain child of Shellygurumi & CraftYallo. Crochet Goat vents, rages, facepalms and obsesses over yarn, crochet projects and the like. The admins of this blog admit they enjoy coming up with witty phrases for Crochet Goat :)

Admin Shellygurumi’s personal blog is mostly comprised of images, blogs and anecdotes belonging to her favourite films, TV shows, books, comics & other stuff she likes. These include: Supernatural, Avengers, Doctor Who, The Blues Brothers and even nifty space stuff. (Professor Brian Cox fan, by any chance?) Blog posts related to personal craft projects do appear from time to time, when there’s time to crochet. I certainly understand that life can get in the way of life.

So, followers – you’re lucky this week. Double feature in one, really. Check these blogs out and follow :)

The ladies behind Go-Crochet are friends Inas and Tantri. These ladies are from Indonesia and admit to having been obsessed with crochet since junior high school.

Through this blog, they aim to share their own works, as well as that of others, including guides and tutorials, patterns and so on. They do not have an online Etsy shop, but do hold another affiliated blog over at Blogspot.

So definitely go over and check out their very cute blog & follow :)

Imagi-knit is a little knitting business established by Stephanie a former student of drama and performing arts at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), founded my Paul McCartney of The Beatles. Imagi-knit’s main focus is on creating custom-made baby hats, clothes and blankets but makes the occasional adult sized hats and scarves too.

Steph also hosts the occasional knitting party with which she aims to teach people to knit and encourages them to share their ideas too. Imagi-knit is based in Liverpool, United Kingdom - so if you’re in the area, get in touch via the Facebook page. If you’re not in Liverpool, you can always get your hands on a beautiful hat, scarf, knitted paraphernalia at Imagi-knit’s Etsy Shop :)

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

…please feel free to leave a message in my ask box/fanmail with some details about your blog.

I think it’s fair to describe Feeling Creative’s blog as a stream of consciousness for crafting, and creative, inspiration.

In a message, she told me: “Someday, when my life is not so busy and complicated, I can’t wait to actually make all the things I have posted! Happy crafting!” Many thanks, and I’m sure my followers will join me in wishing her all the best in finding free time and immersing herself into creative ventures :)

Follow, follow, follow!

And now for something a little different… Oh hell yeah spinning is a photoblog devoted to the art of wool/yarn production, its problems, inspiration, Alpaca appreciation (because they’re awesome) & even advice on how to get started in spinning your own wool.

So for those who spin, work with yarn, or just appreciate its beauty, give this blog a look and follow!

Double Crochets is a craft blog run by two Greek sisters from Athens, Panagiota (a teacher) and Marietta (a photographer), a place they love to post zillions of things related to craft. They love to crochet in strange places around Athens and belong to a club of like-minded crochet enthusiasts. Their goal is to spread the word, or, as they prefer to say, “SPREAD THE THREAD…”

So, grab a thread and see where it takes ya..

The lovely lady behind Food Escapades, Rianne, admits she’s always been fond of eating. Upon discovering Tumblr and started a personal/Harry Potter blog, though she couldn’t resist searching food blogs and reblogging the tasty delights she stumbled upon.  Some followers complained about the concentration of food-related posts on their dashboards from Rianne, so she decided to create a new blog, entirely devoted to food, Food Escapades. She claims she is a frustrated chef with a sweet tooth and unable to resist endlessly searching for beautiful photos of food, both familiar and unfamilar. Though this blog is primarily a photo blog, she occasionaly likes to post about international cuisines and how they have developed throughout history.

Rianne also decided to start a related recipe blog, at the request of some followers, named Food Escapades: The Recipes.

So do have a look and let your mouth water. Or perhaps even saunter along to her recipes blog and feel inspired to try them out :)

MaeWolf’s blog is both a personal and craft blog inspired by what she likes and has found some of these quite easy to recreate with her hands. She began crafting items relating to the Fallout video games and made props and replicas of cardboard. Now she’s knitting, making Jayne Cobb (from Firefly/Serenity) “cunning” hats on looms and selling them at her Etsy shop for very reasonable prices as well as knitting handbags and making hand carved buttons from locally sourced wood. Who couldn’t love MaeWolf’s film/TV/game-inspired crafts?

As she currently finds herself with quite of lot of free time, she’d like to venture into the world of leather work sometime in the foreseeable future.

Check out her page, you know you want to!

The lovely lady behind PetiteSweetsLife is a baker from Syracuse, New York. She earned her baking degree from Alfred State College and while at school, discovered her passion for cake decorating. She worked as a cake decorator at a little Italian bakery for 2 and a half years and now works at Turning Stone Casino and Resort as a baker. She is working towards owning her own bakery which would specialise in cupcakes, petit fours, and wedding cakes. Her blog is a collection of her work from past to present (mostly cupcakes) and home to her video blogs on “how-to” baking. She’s always open to suggestions and loves answering questions her followers have about baking and decorating.

Her motto is: “Making the world sweeter, one cupcake at a time”

Follow & obviously go taste her baked goodies if you’re ever in the area of Verona, New York (state not city)!

KnitWits is a blog by Justine Bernhardt. Her lovely blog is almost entirely devoted to an art we all encounter and admire on a daily basis, knitting. In her blog description she also adds that she posts a number of inspirational images, her own knitting projects, knitting advice and plenty of humorous knitting anecdotes in between.

She’s even devoted one of her posts to thanking alpacas for their yarn/wool. Who doesn’t love alpacas/llamas?

So yeah, follow Justine and her awesome Knitwits blog :)

Who says knitting is boring or dull?

Knitting Problems is a fun collection of quirks and problems that every knitter faces at some point.

This blog is the creator of the knitting problems meme and thrives on the submissions of its followers, so don’t be shy—make your own meme!

This blog never fails to put a smile on my face every time it pops up on my dashboard, so I hope it can do the same for you too :D