The festival essential when you're celebrating music and culture in the UK has to be the welly. You can go posh with Jimmy Choo snakeskin wellies, trendy with Dragon's Den Wedge Wellies or you could go crafty and customise your own.
The wellies pictured above were spotted at this weekend's V Festival by Osoyou's Jessica: the pink polka-dot glitter wellies were sprinkled in shiny stuff and varnished to keep them dotty, and the studded boots were made from parts of a Primark bracelet and a tube of trusty superglue.
This set of acrylic welly paints from Boot Kidz is also available for welly transformation.
Your festival feet will never be dull again.
Lavender is a soothing smell that is said to help you relax and unwind. It's also great to grow in your garden because it encourages the rare and fluffy bumblebee to visit, and it wears its purple well too. When does the wonder of the great flower end? Not here, apparently as lavender goes biscuity.
This post about for Lavendar Biscuits pointed me in the direction of Meester Nik's recipe.
The fresh purple flowers look impressive right from stirring in stage, and with baking only taking 15 minutes you won't have to wait long to sink your teeth into them.
The elderflower (or sambucus) is all over the place if you're in the UK at this time of year. If you're talking English summer (and we do have one) then the taste of elderflower cordial is right in there with trips to the seaside and ants in your sandwiches. Fancy making some of your own?
One of my favourite London knitty bloggers The Knit-Nurse has written up a recipe from River Cottage Preserves Handbook by Pam Corbin recipe for making your own homemade Elderflower Cordial.
She leads you into the undergrowth to help you pick your own flowers and then into the kitchen to turn them into a refreshing bottle of English summertime. Her photography is rather lovely too.
Now all we need is a bit of sunshine to sit outside and enjoy it.
Tweeting is the new talking which makes birds just that bit more trendy than they were. In honour of this tweeting trend I found a lovely little how to which shows you how to create your own egg-shaped birdlife with a crafty twist.
Floral-tufted Rackybirds, by Craftsters Rackycoo, wear flowers on their tiny heads and have paper for plumage. They're a cute and kooky way to use up sadly abandoned plastic eggs from the Easter chocolate carnage.
Each rackybird can be personalised to proudly wear whatever colours or design you fancy putting on its feathers. See the full tutorial here.
Line them up around your bird table to confuse local birdlife or make one for your desk for a bit of indoor tweeting.
Step outside and take a deep breath of fresh air. It's Earth Day; a day when we take a look around us at what Mother Nature has crafted and give it a bit of appreciation. Images of craft for Earth Day had me thinking of mud pies and sinister Blair Witch stick men until I found this how to for turning pebbles into something perfect for nature-flavoured celebrations.
Poopscape Projects is the brainchild of Claire Chauvin, a mother and photography teacher from Texas. Far from being in any way poopy her craft site has some lovely offerings. In particular her Gold Leaf River Rocks are inspired, simple and rather charming.
A good excuse to get your craft on with a trip to the great outdoors for materials and inspiration.
Andy Goldsworthy eat your heart out.
Yay! Spring has sprung! The sun is shining at long last and all across the UK flowers are attempting to grow. Rather than pluck them from the ground to get a little spring about your person you can join in the blooming by whipping up a fabulous felted flower brooch.
Anjie, pom pom princess of craft, has put together a step-by-step tutorial on her website Pom Pom Emporium. All you need is a bit of felt, simple sewing stuff, a few beads for embellishment and a trusty brooch pin.
See the full tutorial here.
Wear it on your recently-released summer jacket. Stick it on your summer hat. Make a felted posy. Safe spring flowers can continue sprouting and you can cover yourself in blossoms.
Sticking your spade in the ground when it's getting towards zero out there is not the pleasantest of activities. That's where the terrcotta dish garden comes in. It's a little garden world all on its own and it allows you to get crafty and green fingered all at the same time.
The craftalicious Crafty Chica takes you through the easy process of turning a couple of cheap as chips terracotta pots into a tiny green oasis for your patio or anywhere in your home.
She also drops in a few suggestions such as tea lights, appliqué or stencilling for those of you who are less handy with a paintbrush.
See the full how to here to craft a castle for your cactus, build a bungalow for your begonias or design a domicile a domicile for your daisies.
You can be still pretty and green even with the ice age at your door.
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