If you go down to the woods today… With the autumn season wrapping its colours warmly around us in my part of the world, there is no better time than now to share with you my new seasonal craft. I have spent a considerable part of my creative days recently staring at my vintage French […]
When autumn is a favourite season of yours, it is always going to be a special time to invite folk around to craft a day away with you. Last Friday, I optimistically ordered warm sunshine and requested no rain as I gathered together the last of Belle’s cottage garden jewels popping each precious bud into […]
Hello and welcome back or indeed, hello and welcome, to so many new readers who have found me over the summer! I have had a long and wonderful time off full of sunshine, flowers, family, friends and workshops and a heck of a lot of building work too. Somehow though, I have managed to be […]
A tale of two halves today. For the first, I have turned all alchemist and tried my hand at something quite process driven which turned out to be a most calming way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. And for the second half an opportunity to return to my flighty, perhaps more intuitive style of […]
Sometimes it is the simplest ideas which are the best and thankfully the month of February calls for nothing more challenging than hearts. And since I have much to do surrounding forthcoming craft workshops – more exciting news of that soon – I feel no need to reinvent the wheel; hearts with a generous dash […]
I mentioned last week I am one of those odd balls who enjoys the bleak mid winter. Strange since I actually dislike being cold yet invariably am and odd since I find dormant vegetable patches unsightly and appear to have a fair few of those myself. I suspect my enjoyment of the long grey and […]
Today is the last blog post before our Christmas break and each year, I like to take this opportunity each year, to share with you some favourite crafts which might help ease your Christmas list a little. I know if they are your favourites by my stats and of course the generous comments and messages […]
And just like that another summer ends here in my part of the world and I am delighted to be back with more stories to share with you. Hello, how are you, how was your break? It’s been a while and there are lots of new readers joining us too, so welcome to you all, […]
“I think I might make a scarecrow for the Kitchen Garden” I said to the boys recently. There was no need for either of them to verbalise their thoughts since the expression on both their faces as they lifted heads briefly from gadgets, said it all. Mr M did offer a disinterested “I thought the […]
I once again have eyes like saucers. During this current phase in our home renovations, the amount of excess packaging and plastic wrapped around many of our new purchases has been quite extraordinary. And whilst we’ve gifted and sold a great deal of what we already had, I continue to try to find ways to […]
