Crafting for Boys

Good news! The crafting community has a new member!

My 6 year old nephew has suddenly decided he wants to be creative. He must get the crafty bug from our side of the family.

That's great of course, but now I'm a bit lost. What sort of crafts would a 6 year old boy be interested in? Most of the crafts I can think of might be considered a bit too girly (like sewing for instance)

Has anyone got any suggestions for a confused auntie?

As this post is for my nephew, I'll show you the card I've just made for him using felt with a stamped background. He likes Timmy Time on Cbeebies, so here's Paxton the pig having a party. Oink-tastic!

Toys for my daughter

I haven't been making much to sell recently, but I have been making a few things for my daughter which I wanted to show you!

 Owl family that make a crinkle sound when you squeeze them, made using a tutorial from craftstylish

 A stripey sock monster from my own imagination!

 A ragdoll made using a tutorial from make-baby-stuff 

A sock pig rattle made using a tutorial from homemadebyjill

I think I'm addicted to making her toys!

Please vote for me before 31st May!

I've entered a competition on the Crafter..oo! website. There were 4 different categories and I've entered 3 of them. I was aiming to make something for all the categories, but ran out of time!

If you have a minute to spare, I'd be very grateful if you could head over to Crafter..oo! and vote for my entries before the 31st May! I would also encourage you to have a look around at the forum, there's a lot of talented people with great ideas over there and they produce a quarterly online magazine to inspire us crafters!

I had great fun and here are my choices for entries:

My lovely beaded owl in the Air category

A crochet necklace in the Fire category

Finally my favourite hanging frog organiser in the Water category

Thank you!

UPDATED: If anyone did vote for me, thank you very much! I didn't win anything, but I had fun anyway!

Who loves frogs?

It's my husbands birthday this weekend, I bet you can't guess what his favourite animal is? 

I've made him a dopey looking frog hanging organiser with pockets. I hope he likes it! I really like the way he's hanging onto the pole! I doubt he'll ever have anything in his pockets (my husband isn't very organised at all!) but at least he'll make a blank wall look a bit more interesting!

I might make a cat one next for the nursery........

Of course I had to make him a frog birthday card as well using felt.

Let me know what you think!

A crafter without the right equipment? Not any more!

This is one of the many birthday presents I've had to work on at the moment!

I go to a craft club with my friend Laura and I found out that she was missing some important equipment. She'd been out to buy a nice big sewing box with lots of bits and bobs to fill it, which is great when you need loads of stuff at the club, but what about when you want to craft on the move?

She needed a small crafting pouch and luckily her birthday was coming up! So I've made her this:

The pouch has a matching needle case and tiny bag for holding small items like buttons. She loves stars so when I found this fabric in a charity shop (an old nightie, I do like to recycle!) I thought it would be perfect.

I hope she likes it and it makes her crafting a bit easier!

How to make me smile!

I was not having a very good week and was feeling a bit down yesterday, until the post arrived with a parcel for me. It was like having an extra birthday!

Inside the lovely packaging was this amazing owl! I love it soooooo much.

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Thank you to Sue at The Krafty Cupcake, you have got two of my favourite things together (owls and felt) in one fantastic present.

We're taking part in 'Craft it forward 2012' and I was one of the lucky 5 to receive a gift from Sue.

Please see my Craft it Forward 2012 post for details on how you could receive something from me to (hopefully) make you smile, although I can't promise it will be as good as this owl!

Craft it forward 2012!

I saw a post recently on The Krafty Cupcake about a great way to spread some crafty love.

I signed up to receive a gift from The Krafty Cupcake and received it yesterday (Thank you so much Sue!) I'll post up a picture later.

It's my turn now and this is how it works....

Craft It Forward 2012:

I will make something for the first 5 people who leave a comment on this post. Those 5 people must then make something for 5 others and so on! You can make whatever you want as long as it's homemade, just make sure they get it before the end of 2012.

Please leave me a comment on this post,and if you are one of the first lucky 5, please email me your details to moodycatcrafts@yahoo.co.uk

It may take me a while to make your gifts, but I will let you know when I've sent your surprise!

Open to all UK and International.

Please, please, remember that you do have to make 5 items for another 5 people to take part.

Let's craft it forward!