On Monday something exciting happened, I become a fully fledged member of the Craft Coop in Marlow. Most people wouldn’t love working on a bank holiday, but honestly, being surrounded by such beautiful crafts is hardly work! New Location in Institute Road The Craft Coop in Marlow has recently relocated from the High Street to […]
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I was woken this morning by my youngest, ‘Happy Easter,’ she said ‘I’ll meet you downstairs’. The possibility of chocolate for breakfast meant that getting a lie in was out of the question. I guess that is what you get when you call your child Ostara, after the goddess of Easter. Happy Easter for the Youngest […]
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In yesterday’s post I was very clear that today was going to be all about (finally) weaving in the ends of my Carousel CAL. What actually happened is something that I would like to call… Project Procrastination I’d almost finished reading this last night. It seemed rude to let it lie on the side with […]
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It is a funny old life running a craft business. One minute you are twiddling your thumbs praying for an order to come in. The next minute you have so many orders you wonder if there is enough time in the world to complete them. One of the things I struggle with the most is […]
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On Sunday I went to one of my favourite craft fairs The Fairy Tale Fair organise whimsical craft markets held in various locations in Sussex. They have won several awards, including Top 100 small businesses in the UK for Small Business Saturday 2014 and top Market & Community Event in the UK in the 2016 Business […]
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On Saturday I was lucky enough to take part in the Craft Council’s free Hey Clay! pottery weekend which ran from the 7th-9th April 2017. A quick check of the Hey Clay! event page told me that the nearest venue to us was just down the road at Pots2Paint in Viables Craft Centre, Basingstoke where […]
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It has been a rather crazy week. There’s so much that’s happened that I want to share but it’s all top-secret for the time being, so I’m taking to bouncing around, generally annoying people and trying to keep myself from exploding with excitement. I know it’s annoying when people do that whole ‘I know something […]
Continue readingAs someone who spends their life creating patterns and working from them over and over again to make sure they are just right, the world of free form crochet is a little scary. Ok, a lot scary. I mean, I have always admired the organic, crazy, spontaneous freeform crochet creations as I scrolled through the […]
Continue readingYesterday we treated ourselves to a rather lovely day out at the annual Winchester Hat Fair. I hadn’t been since I was a little girl and now I have two of my own I thought it was time to revisit the slightly strange, weird and highly entertaining attraction which takes over Winchester, Hampshire for three […]
Continue readingLast night I dug my mum’s old needles out from where they had been abandoned several years ago and sat down with the intention of learning to knit. I had grand visions of creating a beautiful phone holder in knit 1, purl 1 rib stitch that would have a different colour edge and a handy […]
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