Just a couple of short decades ago, craft was limited to Rolf Harris and Blue Peter and it was practically impossible to find anything half decent if you wanted to make decorations for the home or Pictures For Nursery. You often had to make do with trying to create things out of old toilet rolls and cut outs from pictures of magazines.
My, how times have changed now, as there is a huge wealth of products and also advice available to any would-be home crafter. There are so many different types of arts and crafts available now that I would not even have dreamt of just a few years ago and you can choose from thousands of products from the online crafting stores or down at your local craft superstore.
One craft what is very popular nowadays is making your own greetings cards. This is a fun way of saving money and making something really personal to give to family and friends.
You can either do it on the cheap by using materials found around the home – after all even brown paper is fashionable now! – or buy materials from the local craft shop which are ready made.
Home crafts are now viewed as fashionable and chic rather than the work of school kids that we used to perceive them as.