For Age UK, they asked and I knitted, but alas not quite fast enough, so an emergency day off was needed to sew all the bits together and stuff it. I got there in the end however and headed into town to hand my beautiful crofters cottage in. This is the picture it was based Read more about I knitted a house[…]
So well before Christmas I saw a tweet from the WWF asking for nominations for their Hidden Heroes awards. I had been eading a blog by a lady called Jen Gale – My Make do and Mend Year for about 6 months and found it completely inspiring & after reading the criteria decided that Jen and the blog definitely deserved Read more about Hidden Heroes awards at the WWF[…]
… magical pixies came and redid our bathroom (well it was a builder, but still it was pretty magical!). We weren’t sure what to do while the bathroom was being done as all the water had to be turned off and stuff taken out for the tiling to be done. As its our only bathroom Read more about And when we were away…[…]
When staying with mum and dad over Christmas the opportunity to visit Totnes seemed too good to miss so we headed there on Saturday just before we came home. Our first ‘discovery’ was this awesome pirate ship play area right next to where we parked, by excellent companions humoured me by standing next to it Read more about A festive trip to Totnes[…]
We arrived at mum and dads earlier this week with the cats and have been among other things: Making mince pies Making good use of their fire And trying to complete this Jackie Morris wooden jigsaw without the use of the whimsy pieces. I’ll be off to find something warming shortly so all that is Read more about Merry Christmas everyone[…]
It is my sad duty to report the passing of Helena, top chicken and undisputed beauty of the coop, and best friend of Myrtle. On a particularly cold winters morning when going to give the girls their breakfast and let them out for the day we found Helena still seemingly asleep in the nesty box, we Read more about Farewell Helena[…]
So this weekend for Jams birthday we headed off on a wolf walk which was of the fantastic perks of the membership to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust which Jam bought me as a present earlier this year. I wanted to wait till it was winter to go and visit the wolves as I think Read more about Walking with wolves[…]
So this weekend we visited Wiltshire to see Jam’s Dad and stepmum, but as you can see from the above photo we didn’t stay in Wiltshire for long! We headed to beautiful bath to check out the Christmas market there. As you may be able to tell it was VERY BUSY but there were choirs Read more about Bath for the weekend[…]
On Sunday we went along to Chiltern (home to also a very nice garden centre) to pick up our new (and as you can see not very feathered) rescue chickens. We decided to get two as we still have two ex battery hens in the coop and we wanted to the troops to be even. Below Read more about Our new chickens & congratulations Kip and Beth[…]
I took Friday off work and headed to the fantastic Ardington School of Crafts for Christmas copper foil. We were given a selection of patterns but the angel you see above was based on some inspiration on my glass Pintrest board. The Christmas trees were more of a traditional design but I decided to switch Read more about Christmas Stained glass[…]