There's been a bit of an ache in the old knees lately, frankie friends, which means only one thing: the rains are coming.

Remember the paper crafting technique called quilling? It involves rolling, shaping and gluing teeny strips of paper, and back in the day it usually ended with a pile of crumpled coloured paper and a few fingers stuck together.

Time sure does fly when you're putting together a pretty darn fabulous mag, and issue 54 will be hitting the newsstands in less than a month.

We came across these wonderfully nerdy brooches right as we were beginning our annual Twin Peaks marathon, and figured the cosmos was trying to tell us something.

Anyone who describes themselves as a "natural feeder" is okay in our books, so we wouldn't mind adding Alicia Twohill to our circle of lady pals.

This talented lass discovered her gift at a super young age, when we were busy warbling woefully into our hairbrushes and prancing around the backyard like ponies.