I’ve been thinking of opening an etsy shop for a little while now, but having thought about it each time I got scared by the thought that I would do something wrong or that actually no one would want to buy the things I produce (my friends have been receiving my handmade jewels ever since Read more about We are in business![…]
There is no rest for the wicked and so I spent most of Friday night in the kitchen making pink vanilla cupcakes with very pink icing. The reason was Against Breast Cancer were taking over Abingdon market place and they were a bit short on cake. So I put on the oven and had a Read more about More cake and curtains[…]
So we are back in Oxford! I was lucky enough not to go straight back to work but go on a needle felting course with the lovely (& fantastically talented) Gretel from Middle of Nowhere at the Queen’s head pub in Eynsham. We were all due to make a squirrel but the first task was Read more about Making felty squirrels[…]
I don’t usually write about what I watch on TV. Mostly because I don’t watch a lot of it, or that when I do it’s to try and turn off from thinking so the stuff that I watch tends to be mostly without merit. I feel I must however mention the two things I have Read more about What’s been on the box[…]
This is my wonderful friend Claire, she lives near Guildford so alas we don’t see each other as often as we’d like these days. Whenever I do see her however I am greeted with a very strong cup of coffee! Last time we saw each other we were chatting about how awesome it would be Read more about Vikki and Claire’s fantasy coffee shop[…]
I’ve been being kept really busy for the last couple of weeks working on some doll commissions for one of our neighbours. She approached me about using this book that she had as a start point and creating some wedding themed dolls for some younger cousins who were coming to her daughters wedding (incidentally her Read more about Wedding dolls[…]
This is the beginning of one of the dolls I’ve been asked to make by our friend Claire, it is one of a pair although it’s mate is a brown bunny (cut out, the pattern said fake fur but I thought that would be a nightmare so brown suede it is). This is my second Read more about Doll making – The contruction[…]
The first step to making a felt hat for me was to make my felt hat base. We got to choose a pre-made felt cloche in the colour of our choice (I went for a deep blue) depending on the shape of hat we wanted to end up with we got given a hat block. Read more about Hat making part 2[…]
So I finally finished Jam’s lovespoon. I meant to write a post about its design at the time, but I was trying to keep it a secret. Traditionally Lovespoons were created by the menfolk for their ladies, different elements meant different things (facinating article here). I knew that I wanted hearts to be part of Read more about The story of a spoon[…]
Making green Christmas wreaths with BBOWT and my work colleagues