It's the time of year I write about carving our Christmas tree in to something new. This year, Limmy IV became a stubby spoon. Limmy IV was not a happy tree. He dried out quickly and in the fortnight before Christmas so we avoided touching him at all
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Carving the Christmas tree into something new has become an annual tradition for me. This spoon was created with the stump of Limmy III — our tree from 2018. We didn't have much free time between Christmas and New Year so I wrapped the stump in a damp towel
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With the end of November drawing closer, it's finally acceptable to start mentioning Christmas. I've been bearing away on printed Christmas cards and wrap. The design is based on festive stamps printed onto brown paper with white and copper acyrlic. I've been hooked on
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I experimented with natural dyes a while back and I've finally started working on some larger projects. Scott and I chomp through quite a few avocados so it made sense to save the stones and skins to make my first large batch of dye. Between the natural dye,
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A microcope is one of the most treasured Christmas presents from my childhood. Red metal, glass slides and small accessories packed into a polystrene box. Fast forward a few years and I'm hooked on microscopy all over again. This time with a Foldscope — a foldable microscope with a
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Have you noticed that your parents and grandparents are good at fixing things? Many people in my generation don't fix things; when something breaks we throw it in the bin and buy another. Either we are lacking tools and knowledge or things are cheap enough to replace easily.
Our Christmas tree, Limmy II, keeps on giving. After whittling our butter knife I had enough wood left over for a small project. Since we were visiting Scott's Nan in Spain this month, I made a wooden spoon for her herbs and spices. I remembered to take a
Sound the new hobby klaxon! I recently dipped a toe in whittling, on a spoon carving workshop at the Making Winter retreat. Guided by Alistair from The Woodlanders, we spent two hours carving spoons with an axe and a knife. After getting over the initial fear of making a wrong
Last weekend I headed up to Cambridgeshire with Annie for the Making Winter Retreat. Two days of cosiness, craft, good food and car banter. I finally met fellow nature lover Kriss in person too! My camera spent most of the weekend in my bag, so I only took a few
Natural dyes are something I came across on Pinterest but I put the idea of the back of my mind until I could think of a proper project. Recently I read a natural dye post on the Modern Botanics blog (beautiful, do have a look) about natural dyes and it
On Saturday morning I headed over to Mummy Barrow's (Tanya) house for a taster silver clay workshop run by the lovely Emma of Silverpebble. There were six of us all together including fellow nature buff Annie (Fable & Folk) and willow weaver Judith. By the end of the
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I've been experimenting with a new way of editing photos lately. Image glitching. Glitched images contain file errors which produce weird and wonderful visual effects — trippy colours, fragmentation and abstract shapes. Sometimes these errors happen by accident but it's also possible to add them yourself — which
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