If the cooler temps are sending you fleeing indoors and you’re looking for a little housebound crafty inspiration, pop past CraftyCrafty. The crew who host the site have held the internet upside down, shaken out its pockets, and collected the best craft tutorials around to host on their webpages. Lots of ideas for customising clothes, rad things to knit and DIY homewares.

Susie and Barry are frankie readers (which is nice) and they run a little website called album of the week. They’re music nerds, but not in an off-putting way, and they review albums new and old, each of which can be loved in its own special way. Here’s how they explain their mission: “Each week we feature an album that might make a good friend for you – someone you’ll want to hang out with or maybe be reacquainted with.” And that’s pretty much it. Lo-tech, non-pretentious and friendly writing. Like having a good conversation with a friend who’s more switched on about music than you. Good stuff.

Deborah’s one rule when launching Ma Bel Ailie was she wouldn’t sell anything she wouldn’t wear myself. She’s been passionate about vintage clothes since walking into a Vinnies store in her hometown of Redcliffe, QLD, in 1979 where she purchased a black 1950s bombshell dress with huge pink flowers on it. Since then she’s trawled the world for vintage, from Portobello Road in London to the flea markets in Paris to thrift shops in New York. Deborah started selling her vast collection on eBay and has now launched an online vintage store named in honour of her two grandmothers, Mabel Davies and Ailie Cooke.  Ma Bel Ailie features a selection of clothes and accessories from the 1950s to the 1980s and the best thing about it are the prices!

Perth people, it’s your time to shine. Sixthousand is getting ready to launch and they would love your support/feedback/abuse about the site and content as it evolves over the next month. Sign up here!

The lovely pages of frankie are now available to you in a digital format! This means not only can you be a little eco bunny and save paper, but you can also download to your computer and get new issues right on time. Overseas kids, we understand your plight of waiting for the little-tug-boat-that-could, to freight our current copies to you, so now you can have frankie in a click. Interested? Subscribe to the online version of frankie right now.

Neverland Collective is the brainchild of Claire and Paul a NZ brother and sister duo who have damn good taste. They make clothes, jewelry, shoes, paint pictures, draw and photograph. If you’re a jewlelry nut, their new range,  A Conversation Of Secrets is online now. We’ve got a few of their lovely things to giveaway, so This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it your postal address and you might just score yourself a little something.

We love our international friends too. So much that we have negotiated with the postman to reduce our international shipping rates for our new project SPACES. So, if you’re in some far away lovely place and you want to buy our newest frankie creation, just pop an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and speak to our friend Vanessa. She’ll do you a good deal. SPACES are still available in Borders, Magnation, selected newsagents and some special stores! You can check the list of shops we love here to see if they're in stock. And, of course, you can still order yours online. Pic from here

We like things being made easy for us, especially in winter. When it's too cold to get out of your ugg boots and go shopping, we always end up perusing the internet. That's when we found Young Republic. It's full of young, upcoming local designers and their wares, and they deliver directly to your doorstep. You won't even have to get out of your trackies! Think of it like a little Australian designer version of Etsy. It's still in its beta testing stage, but you can check it out here.