Creative Crafting Summer 2011: Features & Best Bits
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Creative Crafting magazine was first published in October 2009. Created by a small group of Crafter’s to raise the profile of the Crafting Community. Every two months anyone can send in articles or projects to be published to the world. Wonderful handmade items are featured and showcased giving people a true sense of achievement and often a well deserved boost to their small business.
Various methods of purchasing a printed copy of the magazine are also gradually being rolled out.
We hope that you enjoy this ‘potted’ version of our creation and will look out for further publications.
Creative Crafting
Creative Crafting magazine was first published in October 2009. Created by a small group of Crafter’s to raise the profile of the Crafting Community. Every two months anyone can send in articles or projects to be published to the world. Wonderful handmade items are featured and showcased giving people a true sense of achievement and often a well deserved boost to their small business. Each new issue (along with all back issues) can be found on the main website. http://www.creative-crafting.com
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CREATIVE CRAFTING MAGAZINE
FEATURES AND BEST BITS
Summer 2011
Anna-Marie Miles, Avril White
Copyright Creative Crafting 2011
Published by AvAnna Publications Publishing at Smashwords
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CREATIVE CRAFTING MAGAZINE FEATURES AND BEST BITS
Summer 2011
Creative Crafting magazine was first published in October 2009. Created by a small group of Crafter’s to raise the profile of the Crafting Community. Every two months anyone can send in articles or projects to be published to the world. Wonderful handmade items are featured and showcased giving people a true sense of achievement and often a well deserved boost to their small business.
Each new issue (along with all back issues) can be found on the main website.
http://www.creative-crafting.com
Various methods of purchasing a printed copy of the magazine are also gradually being rolled out.
In this ebook you will find condensed versions of our favourite features and articles from the Summer 2011 edtion, issue 12, first published on 1st August 2011. You can find the full version of these articles along with more images in the magazine itself.
We hope that you enjoy this ‘potted’ version of our creation and will look out for further publications.
Your Editors,
Anna and Avril
Modern Life is rubbish so let’s get crafting.
Written by Betty Bee
It’s been a pig of a day, bad tempered and irritating in equal measures. For many people the only way to redeem it would be to crack open a bottle and put their feet up in front of the TV. That is of course unless you are a crafter.
A crafter will clear the dinner dishes away, put the kids to bed and then with the radio tuned in to something relaxing start working. Not that it feels like work. Whether you are crocheting a blanket, decoupaging a jewellery box or painting a chair you will quickly enter the craft zone and feel your troubles melt away.
The therapeutic qualities of arts and crafts have long been recognised and classes are run in hospitals, prisons, care homes and having been a lifelong crafter I’m a massive fan of using your crafts as a relaxation tool.
That’s not to say mastering new disciplines is always the fastest way to