September 2026

Hey hey! Dotty here!

Well… what a summer that was!

We welcomed more young makers into our summer workshops than ever before, filled the shop with dozens of incredible Tiny Worlds and somehow made it through the school holidays with the glitter levels only mildly out of control.

Now September has arrived, we’re celebrating our winners, sharing some exciting hobby news and looking ahead to plenty more creative goings-on at The Home Crafters.

So grab yourself a cuppa and let’s catch up…

This summer was officially our busiest workshop season yet, with more children taking part than we’ve ever welcomed before!

Across the holidays, our young crafters painted, sculpted, marbled, decoupaged, needle felted and created all manner of colourful masterpieces. We loved seeing familiar faces return, meeting lots of new makers and watching everyone’s confidence and creativity grow.

The summer holidays may be over, but the making certainly isn’t. We’ll continue adding workshops and creative sessions for children and adults throughout the year.

See our latest workshops and creative sessions here

Our very first Tiny Worlds Summer Diorama Challenge has officially come to an end — and what an incredible collection of tiny creations it produced!

The imagination, storytelling and teeny-tiny details packed onto those little wooden bases completely blew us away. Thank you to everyone who created an entry, visited the exhibition or cast a vote.

A very well-deserved congratulations to all three winners — and to every single person who took part. Choosing between such wonderfully different entries was no small task!

Visit the Tiny Worlds page here

We know lots of you are eagerly waiting for the latest Pokémon release, which was originally expected at the beginning of September.

Unfortunately, our supplier has continued to move the expected order dates and we are still waiting for a confirmed delivery update. We’re keeping a very close eye on it and will let everyone know as soon as we receive definite news.

Thank you for bearing with us. Fingers, paws and Poké Balls crossed that we won’t be waiting much longer!

If your carefully chosen paint recipes currently live on scraps of paper, the back of an envelope or somewhere deep inside your brain labelled “I’ll definitely remember that”, we have just the thing!

The Miniature Painting Project Book is a full-colour planner, paint-testing workbook and hobby archive created especially for miniature painters.

Use it to plan colour schemes, test paints, record successful recipes and keep track of armies, characters, display miniatures, conversions, basing formulas and all those useful little details that are otherwise so easily forgotten.

Not a miniature painter yourself? These make brilliant gifts for the hobbyist in your life — and you don’t need to know anything about Warhammer, paint colours or which tiny army they’re currently building!

Explore the Miniature Painting Project Book here

After that huge heat-wave hit over the Summer, there’s now a definite hint of autumn in the air. The evenings are beginning to draw in, the jumpers are being dug out of the wardrobes and pumpkin spice is quietly finding its way into absolutely everything.

It’s the perfect time to settle down with a cosy new project — whether that means picking up your knitting needles, trying needle felting, painting miniatures, making autumn decorations or finally returning to the project that was abandoned when the sunshine appeared.

We’ll be filling the shop with plenty of seasonal inspiration over the coming weeks — starting with some exciting new autumn giftware arriving in store and on our website this week! Expect cosy colours, charming seasonal pieces and lovely little treats for your home or someone special. Keep an eye on our social pages for the first look, or pop in and see what’s new while choosing your next cosy project.

We’ve been brave, opened the cupboard of doom and tackled the stock that has been hiding at the back!

We’ve uncovered all sorts of craft supplies, kits and creative odds and ends, and reduced them to clear to make some much-needed room for the inevitable arrival of the “C” word…

Christmas! 🎄

There are some brilliant bargains to be found, but most items are limited and won’t be returning once they’re gone.

Pop into the shop for a rummage or browse the sale selection online while stocks last.

Shop the clearance sale here

The Sticky-Tape Clean-Up Trick

Finished crafting but left behind a mysterious sprinkling of glitter, tiny paper pieces, loose threads or runaway sequins?

Wrap a piece of masking tape loosely around your fingers with the sticky side facing out, then gently dab it over your work surface. It will pick up all those fiddly little bits far more easily than trying to chase them around with your fingertips.

It may not remove every speck of glitter — because glitter has ambitions far beyond the craft table — but it certainly makes the clean-up quicker.

The school holidays may be behind us, but there’s still plenty arriving and happening throughout September.

Keep an eye out for:

• New workshops and creative sessions for children and adults
• More Warhammer releases, hobby arrivals and Prize Draws
• Fresh stock and long-awaited restocks across the shop
• Updates on the delayed Pokémon release
• Autumn projects beginning to creep in — with Christmas crafting quietly peeking around the corner!

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for new stock, workshop spaces and all the crafty chaos as it happens.

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That’s all from me this month! Thank you to everyone who joined a workshop, created a Tiny World, voted, visited, shopped or simply shared our posts over the summer. Your support keeps our wonderfully creative little shop going.

Here’s to a colourful, creative and slightly less glitter-covered September!