When the dark nights set in and Christmas approaches, I always feel inspired to dig out the scissors, pritt stick all things sparkly, and start making things! Whether it’s christmas cards or crackers, candles or jewellery, this time of years seems to rekindle my lifelong love of all things crafty!

Since becoming freelance at the start of 2005, I seem to have misplaced any spare time I once had to enjoy tinkering about with beads or wool or cardboard. Everything I create these days is digital, so it’s nice once in a while to get my hands dirty with live crafts (or covered in fluff and glitter glue should I say!)

For a while now I’ve had a notion to combine the two, I’ve wanted to spend some time fathoming out how blogs really work and find an excuse to find some time to get crafty! So, this week (or after one long night earlier this week) Crafty Inspiration was born!

Crafty Inspiration is a blog site that I’ve put together to provide ideas and inspiration to people who want to get crafty. I plan to fill it with step-by-step guides and lots of photos of various crafts. It’s a work in progress at the moment but if you want to see what I’ve been up to with shaving foam, satsumas and old crisp packets this week, check it out!

www.craftyinspiration.co.uk