Love is in the air! This month sees National Pizza Day (9th), Valentine’s Day (14th of course), National Love Your Pet Day (20th), everyone’s favourite, pancake day (21st) and lastly National Pokémon Day (so if you see anyone dressed up as a Pokémon character on the 27th, you’ll know why). Look out for more of … Read more
Lang may yer lum reek! A very old greeting used in Scotland at New Year, meaning may your new year be a prosperous one – after all if you could afford to make your “lum reek” (keep your fire lit, smoke bellowing from the chimney) that would indeed make you wealthy back in the day. … Read more
It’s the most, wonderful time…..of the year! This month sees World Wildlife Conservation Day (4th) to raise awareness in help preserving the worlds’ most endangered species. Christmas jumpers at the ready for Christmas Jumper Day (14th), I know I have mine at the ready and nothing confirms winter is here like the Winter Solstice (21st), … Read more
Stock up your crafting stash with a bang! It’s such a busy month with National/International/World awareness days this month. November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness month, anyone who has known anyone with Alzheimer’s will tell you that a month is not probably not enough to raise awareness of this horrendous disease and what it does … Read more
Pick of the patch! It’s been a very strange atmosphere these last few weeks, what with the passing of the only monarch most people have ever known. One of those major events that normal people assume will never affect them and get surprised that it has touched them. The news coverage of it was just … Read more
Time to fall in love with crafting again It’s the time of the year when nature puts on it’s very own colour show and don’t get me started on the pumpkin spiced latte’s. Although here at HQ, September is known as Spider Month since all the larger spiders appear for their annual mating (for the … Read more
First off…. Let me apologise for posting this months News randomly on the 15th, we’ve had some technical and staffing issues with our ordering system over at HQ which lead to an all hands on deck with lots of manual processing of orders….and ultimately this post not going out at the start of the month … Read more
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun crafting? Who can believe that half of the year has been and gone already? I barely can. Well here at The Craft Box HQ, we’ve been super busy so time really has flown past. So now it’s July, let’s see what fun days we can all celebrate in … Read more
It’s Summer baby! Look out your T-shirts and shades because it’s summer time! With June’s warmer weather we get to open the windows wide and allow the heat in instead of putting on the heating. As well as the start of summer this month we also have World Ocean Day (Wednesday 8th), Father’s Day (Sunday … Read more
Stroll into May! May is National Walking Month, so as well as doing all your crafting over all the public holidays we have this month, don’t let that stop you getting out and about to get those steps up. We at The Craft Box find ourselves doing as much as 3,000 steps just creating our … Read more