Christmas is coming
There's nothing I love more than the festive season. The pretty twinkly lights, rich delicious food, and the festive feel good music played at every opportunity. It can be such...
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Personalised Tassel Banner Kits
Introducing our beautiful new personalised tassel banner kits. Made from gorgeous cherry wood, each banner is laser engraved with your own personalised phrase. The cherry wood has a wonderful natural...
Halloween
Spooky season is upon us! Halloween seems to just get bigger and bigger, with pumpkin patches popping up everywhere and seasonally spiced treats at every corner. Halloween doesn’t seem to...
Meet our Emmeline Pankhurst peg doll!
An exciting collaboration with Thea Chops has launched in time for International Women’s Day. Using rhyming stories from Thea Chops Books (which teach kids about equality) & our craft kits, we’ve created...
The long awaited gift range
After many a debate, I finally decided on a printed Kraft box for the Cotton Twist gift range. We experimented with the crafts in a tin, but tins aren't quite...
Launching Our Personalised Sticker Invitations
Alexis is just a little bit obsessed with stickers. She subscribes to the lovely Pipsticks service & occasionally lets her children use them! I wouldn't be surprised if she was...
Here Comes The Bride (And Groom Peg Dolls)
We stumbled across the idea of using this flat dolly peg in an 'inspiration trip' a year or so back, & what a fruitful trip it has turned out to...
Unicorn & Rainbow Frenzy
Two of my three children are girls, & they seem to be fully versed in unicorns. Marni, my two year old, will happily spot the 'uni' on the page of...
Happy Mother's Day
99% of our time is spent on creating gifts for children (which we love), but with Mother's Day on the horizon, we decided to focus on all of the mums...
Share the Love
Last year on Valentine's day we decided to make it all about the kids - much more fun than paying over the odds to go to a restaurant and speak...
Superhero Masks in a Tin
The Superhero Mask Kit has been one of our best sellers since we launched, so just before Christmas we decided to make a bumper version of our mini kit and we created...
Instagram Challenge - So Good In Every Way #SGIEW
We are unashamedly in love with Instagram. It's a place where we've discovered a whole host of inspiration (and quite a few lovely customers too). There is SO much creativity...
NEW: Beading Kits in Mini Gift Tins
Our summer was spent on a quest to create the perfect stocking fillers... such is the life in retail - Christmas in July really is a thing. In fact, the idea for...
An Advent Calendar with a Difference
November is the month I plan to get ahead for Christmas... and getting an advent calendar sorted for the children is one of the more pleasurable tasks on the list....
A Make Your Own Day of the Dead Mask for Halloween
The newest craft kit to hit our site is this make your own day of the dead mask. We've designed it with Halloween in mind, & having tested it thoroughly with...
superhero party ideas in a nutshell
Planning a superhero party? Make your little superhero’s birthday special. We’ve discovered superhero invites, napkins, cupcake kits, balloons and of course our brilliant CottonTwist superhero party bags. Pow! Wham! Marvel...