Take time out to be creative!
Welcome to Hello! Hooray! - a blog about the things I love to make and do. My name is Clare Albans, and I am a mama, maker and author living in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am passionate about living a creative life, and hope that through my blog and shop you will find lots of ideas of how to bring creativity into your own life too.
My new book is here!
Colourful Fun Embroidery features 24 modern hand embroidery projects to bring joy and happiness to your life!
It will be released on 30th August 2020, but you can preorder your copy today!
Exclusive book and kit bundles are also available in my shop. Yay!
Life in lock down
Well, I wasn’t expecting to write a post with the title ‘Life in lock down’ in 2020, but I’m guessing that this is pretty much how we all feel about the current situation!
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Our creative family manifesto
I created my personal creative manifesto last year, and have found it really helpful in terms of focussing my own goals, intentions and ideas about creativity. I wanted to write our creative family manifesto as a way of extending this to become a way of life, as creativity is so important to us as a…
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Say Thank You with Paperless Post
#gifted Saying ‘Thank You’ is so important at Christmas, and today I’m showing you how easy it is to say ‘Thank You’ with Paperless Post!
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Have you ever wanted to learn hand embroidery?
Book your one-to-one lesson or a place on one of my workshops here.
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Show off your pin collection on one of my pin holder hoops. Custom colours will soon be available!
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