Craft Finds

I've been a fan of My Paper Crane for a while, but I had to show you the adorable new roller skate plushies.

Perfect for the roller derby stars inside all of us.

How amazing are these Pencil Urchins by Jennifer Maestre? I love the way she groups together pencil leads of a similar colour.

A perfect decoration for any office desk and a great way to recycle worn down pencils.

It may not be the place where you would expect to find good craft tutorials, but HP's wiki Wet Paint has some nifty little projects.

I thought the tutorial for turning a Rolodex, among other things in to a cookbook was a great idea, though I love my Rolodex a little too much to do it myself.

I think you'd have to be pretty brave to wear a belt like this, but if showing off your measurements is something you're proud of, then a tape measure belt may be just the thing for you.

What do you guys think?

My Recycled Bags is a wonderful blog filled with tutorials for making bags out of recycled materials, such as plastic bags and the tape from cassettes. My favourite projects include the Cassette Tape Evening Bag and a Wristlet crocheted from plastic bags.

The perfect way to re-use plastic bags, so that you wont need to take a new one.

Here's a clever little tool that I've used for various projects around the site. The Xyron Create-A-Sticker allows you to turn paper, and thin materials in to stickers quickly and easily. Simply feed a piece of paper through the sticker maker, pull down on the sticker cartridge and out slips your sticker. They come in various sizes to suit your need, but I find that the handy mini version does all of the jobs that I need it to.

Use it to create cute packaging or make pretty DIY bindis.

If you're the type of person who feels that giving money as a gift is a little impersonal, then here's a clever trick for making it a bit more special. Clay Randall has posted an excellent tutorial on how to fold an origami gift box out of a cash note.

You could put a sweet, small gift or even a little note, suggesting what to spend the money on inside. The perfect way to make the gift of cash special.

It's obvious that I'm a big fan of Daleks from the Dalek Cake projects that I keep posting, so you can imagine how excited I was when I stumbled upon the Extermaknit! Dalek Knitting Pattern.

Now we can all have cuddly little Daleks taking over our homes.