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Roses are red gift tin: a Valentine’s Day craft from Trocraft
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LEGO enters arts and crafts space with Dots
By Ryan Tuchow for Kids Screen The LEGO Group is building its way into the arts and crafts category with the 2D tile-based play line LEGO Dots. The new flat tiles come in various shapes and sizes and users can place them together to create 2D designs, such as facial...
Find a hobby and get off your smartphone
By Nicole Dieker for Life Hacker Every day, I try to do at least one activity that is both engaging and smartphone-free—and if it’s social, that’s a bonus. Sometimes it’s group exercise class at the YMCA. Sometimes it’s choir rehearsal. Sometimes it’s as simple as...
Want to increase your brain power, destress and make more money? Get a hobby
By Bedros Keuilian for Entrepreneur South Africa All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. If Jack is an entrepreneur, it also makes him less effective at building insane wealth. What’s Jack got to do with you? If you’re a business owner with big plans, every hour...
10 cute Christmas crafts to do with toddlers
By Crystal Bassler for Moms.com It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Every child’s head is filled with thoughts of Santa and what presents might end up underneath the tree. Meanwhile, parents are buzzing around like bees trying to get things ready so that...
Local seven-year-old starts stationery business
By Lungile Satsuma for IOL Omphile Mabitsela, 7, is so determined to beat the country’s harrowing unemployment statistics that he has already started building his stationery empire. Mabitsela, a Grade 2 learner from Randburg, has already roped in two of his friends,...
Colour-in wallpaper ideal for children’s rooms
By Rebecca Knight for Ideal Home Once upon a time, colouring-in books were the domain of toddlers and primary school kids. However, soon the adults were quick to catch onto the past-time that was leaving their children quiet and zen-ned out. We were all clamouring to...
The fascinating history of paint-by-numbers kits
By Emma Taggart for My Modern Met You probably remember “Paint-by-Numbers” kits from your childhood, but do you know the history of how they came to be? A mix between a coloring book and painting on a canvas, painting by numbers allows anyone to create a detailed...
Are adults still using colouring books to improve their mental health?
By James Greig for Metro August 2nd was National Colouring Book Day. This seems as good a time as any to consider the adult colouring book trend, which really took off in the UK in 2015 and … hasn’t been talked about much since. Are adults still using colouring books?...
Is the adult colouring book craze dead?
By Adam Rowe for Forbes In 2015, adult colouring books became the dark horse of the publishing industry, as a surprising surge in sales boosted major players’ revenues. In 2016, there was no end in sight. In 2017, the bottom fell out of the adult colouring book...
Now available from Trocraft: American Crafts Journal Studio – Journal Kits
Imagine having an easy, on-the-go journal at your fingertips, filled with interchangeable inserts, and convenient pockets for tucking away all those interesting bits and bobs. Fill the spacious inserts with words, ideas, pictures and doodles to inspire and remind....
How the Rolls-Royce of chalk nearly disappeared
By Mindy Weisberger for Live Science A type of blackboard chalk that was produced for decades by just one factory in Japan was so highly prized by mathematicians they referred to it as “the Rolls-Royce of chalk.” And when rumors surfaced about the chalk...
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