What's your craft wishlist?

[Beatrice]

I'm a sucker for paper craft bits and pieces, I'm totally in love with these botanical cuts (http://www.windmill.net.au/5-8years/Botanical-Cuts.html) from Windmill. I bought a big craft hamper with the KRudd bonus last Christmas but I held off on these because there were too many things on my wishlist that I thought would get more use. But I don't need to restock with paint so I might indulge this year :lol

I really want an easel. We had one which we got from Freecycle, but it lived on the deck and got wet too many times and eventually disintegrated.

I also have a hankering for the Waldorf-style water-colours and colour-diffusing paper. They look so cool, but so expensive.

I'm hoping to get more into kids crafts again as H outgrows the destructive phase...

Add your own wishlist - for your own crafty exploits as well! :eager I haven't got a wishlist for myself because I already have far too much stuff and need to start using it instead of buying more :lol

[Ceres]

I think the craft in your house sounds pretty exciting! I often pick up bits and bobs of craft stuff from the $2 shop and that's well utilised here. The only thing that would really improve things is a little block of drawers to keep things neatly in so there's no rummaging through boxes.
I do need to restock the poster paints though.

[Beatrice]

Yeah we do the $2 shop craft stuff too (albeit guiltily). I like the idea of utilising a lot more natural materials from the garden and neighbourhood rather than relying on the made in China stuff for collages. I'd like to source a lot more ethical stuff but then I get more hung up about "wastage" since it's so much more expensive.

[Sarasvati]

I REALLY want some tinted charcoals. And some good quality charcoals, as well as good charcoal paper. Pastels are ok but I much prefer charcoal.

I'd also love some decent paintbrushes and a wide range of artist quality acrylic paints. I dabbled in oil for a while but I have more of an affinity for acrylic. And canvases. I want to paint some stuff for our walls here.

Did you have to start this thread? :lol

[Beatrice]

It's a bit of a contrast to the frugality one :giggle

[Ceres]

I often find canvasses cheaply at Bunnings - great for kids art, probably not great quality for adult art though.

[cgull]

TIME.... *sigh*

[Butterfly]

I want a craft workshop with heaps of storage & work surfaces. It's just a little wish ;)

[Ceres]

:lol Nothing too grand 'eh!

[Beatrice]

I'm actually getting to the point where I've stopped wishing for that - I used to have a spare rom for that alleged purpose and I just fillied it with stuff I barely got around to using :lol I want a smaller house with excellent built-in storage which is much quicker to tidy :imateapot

[GreenGully]

I want a studio for myself. A strawbale one with high ceilings and lots of storage. A big table to cut fabric, another with drainage on the floor for wet felting. A gas burner for wool dyeing and a long clothes line for hanging drying wool. Warm in winter and cool in summer.

[Beatrice]

Oh, very cool!

I think I want a live-in cleaner. Because at this place, we have a built-in bench for sewing (which fills up with crap) and a playroom with a desk (which is filled up with crap) and we still hardly ever do any craft :oops

[StarryOne]

I want a studio for myself. A strawbale one with high ceilings and lots of storage. A big table to cut fabric, another with drainage on the floor for wet felting. A gas burner for wool dyeing and a long clothes line for hanging drying wool. Warm in winter and cool in summer.Yeeeees. Surrounded by lush green tropical gardens, with lots of lovely diffused natural light.

I want a new overlocker. A flash one. The husband paled slightly when I mentioned price, but i'm working on it :rofl

[Ceres]

I am going to do my best to make that happen for you GG - perhaps not in this house - but will bear it in mind for the next one!

[Kris]

My craft wish list - more lyra pencils; decent watercolour paper; one of those shelving sets on wheels for wet on wet paintings to dry; a plethora of main lesson books, more water colour paints, some deciduous trees for leaves; a pond with rushes and reeds for basket making; moulting birds for feathers; a beach for driftwood, water tumbled glass, round stones; a beehive for beeswax. I bought a trestle table last year and now I'm not sure where we've stored it but I need to get it out again.

[GreenGully]

I am going to do my best to make that happen for you GG - perhaps not in this house - but will bear it in mind for the next one!
Aw you are lovely :kotc

[Echo]

Hmm...I don't know about C because he's only just started showing an interest in crayons and not much else, but for me it'd be a room all my own with a BIG table for cutting out fabric, a brand new sewing machine, piles and piles of fabric, a set of interchangable knitting needles, wool aplenty. And the room has to be big enough that I can actually use some of the wall space instead of just having everything shoved up against it - so shelves where I can easily tell what's what, how much I've got, etc. And aircon is a must!

One day....

[Kris]

I'd like to add some simple sewing projects to my craft wishlist after making a rainbow fairy mobile last week.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4741500826_28860b309d.jpg

[Beatrice]

Cute mobile :)

I've been restocking our craft cupboard lately as the kids have been on a massive crafty kick! So mostly looking for things like pompoms, pipe cleaners, cellophane, etc. Nothing terribly exciting.

I still want an easel though :lol It's high on my list for when we own our own house again and have somewhere suitable for painting (paints have been banished from this house, I don't need the drama in a rental).

[Kris]

Water colours, outside? Lyrebird stock great water colour paints.

The kids have asked me to get a black board for the days when they want "real teaching" :lol