Christine AbelaWeb site designer. Quilter.

Most of the web sites I build are for craft-related businesses. I love working with crafty people, because they are so artistically talented, and have a great passion for their work. Most of these are people selling tools and materials for others to create their own craft items, but Karen from Studio Crafts by Karen in Bacchus Marsh (Victoria, Australia) sells a huge range of ready-made items. I have built a new web site for her at http://www.studiocrafts.com.au .

From Bears to Quilt Hangers, Karen has a huge range of products that would make great gifts, or a treat for yourself to decorate your own home. She has a pretty range of Gollies (contact her for details, because the range she has in the shop was far too wide to put them all on the site). And lovers of the “primitive” look will particularly enjoy her rusty items and the pip berry products.

If you don’t see anything you like on the site, please join her mailing list so she can keep you up to date with new additions, because she is still busy adding products from her packed-full shop!

And, as a special treat, I have convinced her to have a 10% off opening sale, so everything on the site is reduced for a short time. Enjoy! http://www.studiocrafts.com.au

Mt Macedon is a beautiful part of the world. Hilly, lots of trees, and nearby Gisborne has a wonderful patchwork shop. So I was delighted when Mary Kelly asked me to build for her a pretty but simple web site to show off her products.

Her store, The Drapers of Mt Macedon, is located in Gisborne in the state of Victoria, Australia, and has a huge range of fabrics. But, as her site says, she also has “all types of haberdashery including Zips and Fasteners, Gutermann cotton , Polyester, Quilting cotton, Sulky, Metallic thread, Signature thread, DMC threads, Cottage Garden Threads, Scissors, Quilters Hardware, Batting, Bias Binding, Ric Rac,Wool Blanketing, Wool Felt, Polyester Felt, Buttons, Ribbon, Elastic, Aida Cloth, Linen and list goes on and continually expands……….forgot to mention all of the patterns and books as well……..”.

I hope you enjoy http://www.drapersofmtmacedon.com . While you are there, be sure to join the mailing list so you can be kept up to date with all the new additions to the range. Mary mentioned she has a lot more fabrics coming in August, so it will be worth a visit, either online or in person!

I have become well-known for the craft-related sites I build, so this is something a little different. Commercial Food Equipment is a family-owned business that was started by Stacey Brown’s parents almost exactly forty years ago (actually 40 years and 1 day!).

Stacey is a quilter, so I just knew we would get along – and we had a great time designing her new site. Her business has a huge range of equipment used in large commercial kitchens like those in restaurants and hotels. So she wanted a clean “corporate” look for her site, that would make it easy for her very busy customers to quickly find what they need.

Their motto is “from a teaspoon to a cold room”, and Stacey and her staff (with help from son Tristan) have been very busy loading nearly 800 products – with many more to come! http://www.commercialfoodequipment.com.au

Located in Queensland Australia, CFE does sell to the general public, but I invite you to visit the site to see an example of a professional non-craft site.