Something horrible this way comes. No, we're not talking about Brexit (but could they have picked a more appropriate date for it?) but Halloween. It's time to gear up and really take your ghoulish celebrations to the next level with a truly exceptional set of makes from those gorgeous Little Button Diaries gals, Laura Minter and Tia Williams.

In "The Horrible Craft Book" there's a truly grim and gross make for just about everyone. Poo, snot, guts, severed fingers, more poo - you name it and it's all in this fabulous makes book.

Learn the secrets of making truly grim and disgusting puke-slime (arrrgh!), learn how to trick your friends and frenemies with a realistic severed finger or perhaps even a few scars and scabs of your own.

Make delicious snackables that look disgusting but taste wonderful, such as guts pizza, snot cakes and squishy cake-pop eyeballs.

We read through this with a mixture of "ARRRGHS" and "OOOHS" in equal measure, sheer genius from those superb creative mums over at Little Button Diaries

Sum this book up in a sentence: A dream "Makes" book for kids and adults who love grim and gross stuff, with easy-to-make recipes, crafting projects and quick tricks for jolly japesters - perfect for halloween.

"The Horrible Craft Book" by Laura Minter and Tia Williams is out now, published by GMC Publishing (kindly supplied for review). 

Those lovely ladies over at the Little Button Diaries  have come up trumps again, this time with a book that (hopefully) we might get some use out of soon...

Aha, now here's a crafting book we can really get behind! Faster than a speeding bullet, it's a superb Book of the Week from the Little Button Diaries folk!

Are you ready for some cool makes? Those lovely ladies from The Little Button Diaries are back with a bumper book of superb art, science and crafty activities so go for your gluesticks!

Once again, the fabulous Laura and Tia from the Little Button Diaries have come up trumps with another gorgeous little book full of awesome makes.

Here's a little-known fact about us. We're sewing bees. Yes indeed, even me!

 Laura Minter and Tia Williams have created a fabulous activity, crafting and baking blog, "The Little Button Diaries", a veritable treasure trove of utterly brilliant ideas for things to do with your little ones.

Now Laura and Tia have turned their attention to distilling their fabulous crafting knowledge into a couple of awesome new activity books.

"The Knight Craft Book - 15 Things a Knight Can't Do Without" and "The Princess Craft Book - 15 Things a Princess Can't Do Without" bring together simple (and not so simple) craft project ideas in two attractive and fully illustrated volumes.

For would-be knights (whether girls or boys) you can create awesome castles, weapons (like bows and arrows or swords and scabbards) and even a trusty steed to ride into battle on.
Each project comes with a set of instructions and a list of the things you'll need to get your crafty little knights creating some truly brilliant props for costume play.

With "The Princess Craft Book" again princessy girls or boys can make some really amazing creations with more than a nod to some of their favourite princessy movies. You'll certainly notice a bit of a "Frozen" thing going on with this book so if your children just can't "Let it go" they'll be over the moon at some of these awesome makes!

Laura and Tia are hugely talented, and you can tell they really enjoy what they do as it comes across very well in these books. Clear instructions, brill photos (with kids really getting into the swing of things) and a range of projects from really easy 5 minute makes to some more complex and quite skilled makes, there's something for everyone in both books.

"The Knight Craft Book" and "The Princess Craft Book" are released on 7th March, from GMC Publishing.