Happy Birthday to Craft Land!

Cupcake anyone?

We're celebrating our first year anniversary the last week of January with a cupcake extravaganza! Join us all week for demos, classes, a cupcake parade and even some edible cupcakes.

On Sunday, we will Embroider a Cupcake -  On Monday, we will Knit a Cupcake -  On Wednesday, we will Cross-stitch a Cupcake -  And on Thursday we will Felt a Cupcake! Demos in each technique will be running all week from 11 am to 2 pm, and the class will be given from 4pm to 6:30 pm.  The class is free; the materials kit is 50 Dhs and includes everything needed to make a number of Cupcakes.  

how cute is this cross-stitch cupcake?

Anyone who completes their Cupcake is invited to enter it in the Cupcake Parade, a display of crafty Cupcakes on display all day Saturday.  Shoppers will be given voting slips, and the Cupcake with the most votes will win a Viewer’s Choice prize!  Participants may collect their Cupcakes after the prize has been awarded at 4:30 pm.

From 3-5 on Saturday, we will be singing Happy Birthday, admiring the lovely crafty cupcakes and toasting Craft Land's first birthday with edible cupcakes - All Are Welcome!

See our website for specific class information & sign up in the shop.

Welcome to Summer

happy birthday, Jennifer!

Summer is here in Dubai! It's hot and humid outside, and nice and cool inside. Especially now that the repaimen have figured out our air conditioning! It's nice and cool in the shop, and finally also in the classroom! We all enjoyed some birthday cake yesterday to celebrate our Jennifer's birthday, yummy.

Our summer classes are now underway...we had a nice little group of cousins enrolled in the Town Center summer camp. They learned cross-stitch on Monday, did a scrapbooking project on Tuesday, and painted ceramics today. There are five more weeks of fun classes for ages 8+, morning and afternoon, so come to Town Center for info.

Our Craft Land classes are also going for kids, see our website for schedule and other info.

http://www.mycraftland.com/

Take advantage of our fantastic SEWING MACHINE offer: for 1,995dhs, you get a new sewing machine, basic sewing supplies, and 2 weeks of classes. It's valued at around 3,000dhs if you purchase it all separately!

Check out the gorgeous felt Story Pictures, made by one of our customers, Nabila. She is a kindergarten art teacher here in Dubai, and will use these wonderful pieces to tell stories to the students.

The veggies get sad when the clouds cover the sun

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Last but not least, have a look at Bino, trapped behind the wall of boxes that arrived this morning! We're anxious to see all the scissors, trims, elastics, etc that will emerge over the coming days...

Welcome!

Welcome to Craft Land's new blog! We hope you'll join us here often for shop updates, photos, news and gossip.

New this week in the shop: BOOKS! Dozens of books have finally arrived. At last we have some lovely books on crochet; lots of new knitting books; some beautiful new quilting books on jelly rolls & batiks; and many of our basic A-Z how to books are here in a multitude of crafty subjects. Pull a chair up to our browsing table soon!

Introducing FELT. We now have knitting yarn you can felt, special roving wool and needle felting kits, and of course more books to show you how. Stop in for a free FELTED TEDDY BEAR pattern.

Coming very soon: our summer schedule for kids. There are classes for sewing, knitting, crochet, felt, applique....and don't worry, we will still be running our regular classes for adults too.