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The Budget

I know I’m one of the few people in the world that finds government budgets exciting. Blame Marilyn Waring.
But hey bet you never thought there’d be a fusion of crafts and government budgets? Did ya? Did ya?
I bet not.

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Real Dolls

Check out these groovy dolls being stitched by the clever Ms. Amy.

With bells on

I’m there!

Thanks Mikes and the Kuties

Nerd Core Stitchers of the world unite!

A while back I told you all about the HTML Patchwork Project, the brainchild of Ele Carpenter.
The great news is that now it’s done! Well, it’s opening in an exhibition next weekend so it must be pretty close. So for you lucky people in London, you can get along and check it out.
It’s part […]

Crafty Collaborations

Craft collaborations are great projects to be involved in ’cause you don’t have to do very much but there’s still a wickedly awesome outcome.  Craft Victoria is helping promote a collaboration which doesn’t require any craft skills whatsoever!  So those of you who are still holding out on me might want to join in.  I’m […]

Make Tea Not War

Check out this cool action from the Revolutionary Craft Womyn of Addington in solidarity of the ANZAC Ploughshares who gained access and casued serious damage to the Waihopai Spy Base in New Zealand. Waihopai is a key component of the global US spy system known as Echelon.

Here’s the report from Aotearoa Indymedia:
We all had […]

Green it.

So I hope you’ve all seen the new look Greens website. I think it looks really good and it will be fantastic for election year for people coming to the site for the first time. It’s really easy to find what you’re looking for. Well done to the team that sorted that […]

Post Oil Addiction Craft Completed!

Sorry I forgot to mention to you all that I’ve gone on this extreme road trip so I won’t be posting much on here. We left almost a week ago now and we’ve been driving from Melbourne to Uluru (2300km egad!). I’ve even been driving and those of you who know me will […]

Go Orange for Human Rights

If you’re looking for some inspirational ideas for the Free Tibet Xstitch comp, you might want to check out The Colour Orange Project.

A Crapper of a Wedding Expo

I had to share this one. Now anyone who knows me, knows I’m not really a huge fan of the institution of marriage. I find it a lot more constructive to decide every day that I want to spend the rest of my live with my beloved (awww).
So I was pretty amused by […]

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