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New Year New Projects: 4 Ways To Introduce Change In Your Life This Year
At a time when people are making resolutions and setting goals, the New Year is an opportunity to change, learn new skills and refresh your space. You can take up new hobbies, learn how to craft and broaden your interests, or organise and restyle your home for a 'New You' style update. Now's the chance for DIY enthusiasts, hobbyists and organisational enthusiasts alike to act on long term ambitions.
Four of our favourite ways to promote change in our lives include taking on new projects and refreshing our home in organising craft space, kitchen and upgrading our baking tools while enhancing our home decor in our bedroom spaces.
If it's adopting a new hobby you're interested in, you can enjoy our exceptional range of arts and crafts supplies ready for you to tackle whatever new project you desire. Check out our craft projects for beginners for step-by-step guides to help you adopt a new hobby. Or, if you're feeling inspired to refresh your space, our helpful tips will help you to organise your craft space, update your home styling and streamline your storage.
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- Adopt A New Hobby: Learn To Craft And Sew
- Organise Your Craft Space
- Upgrade Your Baking And Kitchen
- Refresh Your Bedroom
Adopt A New Hobby: Learn To Craft And Sew!
Trying out new activities is a great way to start the new year. Such new activities promote change and can encourage you to express your creativity. At Spotlight, you can find an incredible range of free beginner projects ready for you to download and start crafting!
Craft Projects For Beginners
Experimenting with different crafts is a great way to develop your creative skills and create stylish accessories for yourself or a loved one. From knitting to jewellery making, these free craft projects for beginners are perfect for anyone looking for craft hobbies in the new year.
Cosy Cable Beanie
Knitting, Crochet & Embroidery is a wonderful and relaxing hobby that can be undertaken almost anywhere! This hobby is for those with an interest in crafting stylish accessories, clothing, and so much more! For more helpful tips and inspiration, check out our guide to knitting for beginners.
Why not try a hand at our Cable Beanie project? You can choose your favourite colour of yarn to create a stylish beanie that not only complements your outfit but helps keep you warmer on those chilly days.
Download the Cable Beanie Project
Decorative Francheville Abstract Wall Art
One of the most simple yet effective ways to express your creativity is through painting! An incredibly popular art form, painting is an excellent craft project for those looking for a new hobby in the new year.
Our painting projects make it easy to follow along and create stunning pieces that provide an artistic outlet but also a stylish update to your home decor, ready to be displayed in any room of your home. The Francheville Abstract Wall Art Project is exceptional for updating your home decor. This project involves painting a design across multiple canvases, to create an eye-catching work of art that instantly transforms your living room or bedroom into an elegant art gallery.
Download the Francheville Abstract Wall Art Project
Fashionable Sculpey Love Heart Earrings
Revamping your personal style is a popular New Year resolution for those exploring their fashion identity. While modelling clay can be used to create stunning figurines and trinket trays, you can also use it to create stylish jewellery. Jewellery making is a great way to experiment with your craft skills while creating gorgeous accessories for yourself or as a gift to a friend!
As seen with our Love Heart Earrings Project, you can craft Sculpey clay into love hearts and attach earring backings to create stylish and adorable earrings. This is the perfect craft to kickstart any fashionista's crafting journey.
Download the Sculpey Love Heart Earrings Project
Experiment With Sewing Projects and Try Something New
Sewing is a very valuable skill. Once you learn how to sew, you can make fashion-conscious choices by creating your very own clothing and expressing your own unique creativity and style. Plus, you can easily amend any faults or holes in your clothing. Check out our article on sewing for beginners for tips and tricks to help get you started. You can also explore our free sewing projects for inspiration on what you can create with a needle and thread!
Cord Keepers To Organise Your Technology
You can use your newfound sewing skills to help elevate your storage solutions in any room of your home. Combining crafting with organisation, this cord keepers' project aims to create stylish cord holders that help organise any chargers or cables.
Perfect for both the home and the office, the cord keepers project aims to create functional and beautiful cord holders in any fabric of your choice.
Download the Cord Keepers Project
Linen Sleep Mask For A Peaceful Night's Sleep
Maybe improving your sleeping habits is on your list of New Year's resolutions? In learning how to sew to create a linen sleep mask, you can transform the way you sleep, helping you to feel well-rested the following day!
A great project for those starting out with a sewing machine, this sleep mask project is also great for those wanting to begin crafting gifts for friends and family.
Download the Linen Sleep Mask Project
Elevate Your Bedding and Challenge Yourself With The Metallicus Quilt
New year project ideas that result in practical creations are excellent new hobbies to adopt in the new year period. Combine your creative skills with your home styling talents to create elegant bed linen that will help to transform any sleeping arrangement in the new year.
Take the Metallicus Quilt Project, for example. This quilting project is great for beginner crafters wanting to experiment with a new craft while updating their bed styling. You can play around with colours, selecting quilting fabrics in the colour palette of your choice.
Download the Metallicus Quilt Project
New Year Project Ideas For Kids
Children are naturally curious and creative. Help inspire them this new year by encouraging them to adopt new crafting hobbies. With a range of kid's crafts and activity kits with everything you need to complete these creations, you can also find an extensive selection of kid's craft supplies to experiment with our free kids' projects!
Explore Our Craft Projects For Kids
Duck Pencil Case: A Back To School Essential
Encourage your child to participate in a new craft activity while helping them to personalise their stationery. This aids them in preparing for the school year ahead, equipping them with essential school accessories while also allowing them to express their personal style through their belongings.
Download the Duck Pencil Case Project
Express Personal Style With Paradiso Wooden Letters
Help your child experiment with their own style and decorating their room by creating eye-catching decor pieces. The Paradiso Wooden Letters project outlines how any child can decorate craft letters, to spell out a phrase or even their name and display on any shelf in their bedroom. A fun beginner-level project to try this new year!
Download the Paradiso Wooden Letters
Gooey Gloo Glitter Slime
Kids love playing around with slime. The slimy texture is both fun for children while also beneficial to their fine motor skills and helps to provide stress relief.
It's a relatively easy project for children to recreate and results in a sensory toy they can enjoy for longer periods of time. Using craft glue, children can choose food colouring and glitter in their favourite colours to create ooey gooey slime they'll love stretching and poking!
You can find a great selection of slime kits right here at Spotlight!
Download the Gloo Glitter Project
Organise Your Craft Space To Motivate Your Creativity
Collected all your craft supplies for your newfound hobby? Or has the time come to reorganise all your crafting supplies? An organised craft space will help you feel at peace when crafting and makes sure that all your supplies have a place to go when not in use, making it easy to find what you need when you need it!
We have everything you need to keep your space tidy this year, including:
- Moveable craft storage carts and trolleys: Offering incredible portability of supplies, these craft trolleys allow you to transport your art supplies freely around your craft space while ensuring everything is kept neatly stored away.
- Craft storage caddies and boxes: Neatly store away your smaller art and craft supplies in our caddies and boxes. These storage solutions can also be used to help organise shelves and drawers in your craft space, taking your craft organisation game to the next level!
- Craft storage jars and tubes: For smaller craft creations or loose supplies such as jewellery, buttons and beads, it can be a good idea to shop for jars and tubes to keep everything in a smaller, confined container.
Spotlight offers an extensive range of craft storage solutions that will help you organise your space and keep your art and craft supplies neatly stored away.
Upgrade Your Kitchen Decor and Baking Tools
Maybe your New Year resolution is to develop your cooking and baking skills? Updating your selection of kitchen decor and baking necessities is a great way of promoting a fresh start in the heart of your home.
New Year Project Ideas: Bake Up A Storm!
Whether you're an experienced baker or your New Year's resolutions involve developing your baking skills, our selection of bakeware will have you feeling like a chef in the comfort of your own home kitchen. With pans and dishes to help you bake delicious cakes and accessories that will help you decorate your baked creations with ease, our range of baking tools will help you create decadent desserts for any occasion.
You can find out more about baking tools by reading through our baking articles, including seven baking essentials you need to know about and our guide on how to use a piping bag. Is it the inspiration you're looking for? Explore our cake and confectionery projects for delicious recipes you can recreate in your kitchen.
Create A Knockout Kitchen to Inspire New Flavours
From your food preparation through to your table setting, our kitchen range at Spotlight has everything you need to revamp your kitchen in preparation for the new year. With stylish kitchen appliances for creating delicious meals, you can also find an incredible collection of cookware and food preparation tools that will help you recreate any recipe for both everyday meals and dinner parties with loved ones.
Along with tools that help in your culinary creations, our range of kitchen storage is perfect for those with a New Year's resolution of organising their kitchen for supreme productivity. Keep ingredients neatly stored away while ensuring their freshness with food and pantry storage containers and ensure your cutlery and other kitchen essentials are kept in place with kitchen organising trays and shelves.
Stylish Dining Experiences For Making Memories With Loved Ones
Perhaps your New Year resolution is to host more gatherings with friends and family. Or, maybe you simply want to transform your everyday routine. Prepare your home for summer dining by updating your dining ware. By refreshing your servingware and tableware including serving platters and cheese boards as well as dinner sets and cutlery you can elevate any dining experience.
While upgrading your servingware and tableware is a great way of breathing new life into your kitchen and dining decor, the pieces that really tie in your decor theme involve your table setting. Think of elevating your everyday dining table with gorgeous tablecloths, placemats and napkins that not only enhance your home styling but also help to protect your dining table from marks and mess often left behind by servingware.
Refresh Your Bedroom For The New Year
Revitalising your bedroom and redecorating your space will help you feel rested and ready for the year ahead of you. You can infuse a personal touch into your bedroom styling by creating decor pieces to decorate your bedroom with. Think of updating your window furnishings by creating rod pocket curtains in the curtain fabric of your choice. You can also use fabric to cover a canvas for an artistic charm that elevates your space.
If you're not only wanting to elevate your home styling but also improve your sleep routine in the new year, updating your bedding arrangement with a comfortable mattress and topper, a DIY Bed head and shopping for new bed linen will help you sleep soundly in the new year.
If your New Year resolution involves updating your home styling, you can find a great range of articles regarding decorating that will help you transform your bedroom. Check out our blogs on how to choose and style cushions for your home and 10 easy summer home decor ideas for more home styling tips, tricks and inspiration.
New Year New You With Spotlight!
The new year brings fresh beginnings and a time for you to make new year's resolutions to set out to accomplish throughout the year. Starting new hobbies not only brings joy but also helps you to develop skills that encourage you to achieve personal growth and creative exploration.
Whether you're adopting a new hobby with craft and sewing projects, refreshing your kitchen and baking tools to elevate your everyday routine or simply redecorating your bedroom, Spotlight has you covered for everything you need to achieve your new year's resolutions.
Shop our incredible range of art and craft supplies, kitchen and baking tools as well as home decor to refresh your home and selection of crafting tools to prepare for the year ahead of you.
