DIY
The rise of DIY design and craft is everywhere. Blame the credit crunch or maybe people want to be more directly involved in their…
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My obsession with my sewing machine has grown. I have now made three skirts and I have moved on to stuffed animals, in particular…
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Sew amazing
My sewing heritage – mum cheated at her dressmaking o’ level and got her mum to make her blouse. She can’t face sewing anything as it…
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Owl Cards
Just completed my linocut Leeds Owl cards. They are produced on white, cream, yellow, red and my surprise favourite orange as greeting cards with matching…
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Get some cornstarch, water, a metal tray and a sub woofer then make really strange liquid dancing videos. Ooblek, we call it gloop (cornstarch and…
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Clouds are the new owls
So fickle am I, last month I was wildly going on about how brilliant owls were and how I couldn’t get enough and yet…
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When I first watched this, my cat came in the room to see me, heard simon’s cat meowing and went and investigated by sitting…
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Plates + skirts = brutal pleasure
I was going to post this earlier but then I got carried away actually ordering online for myself. Interestingly I am not sure whether…
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Stitch in time saves nine
Never thought I would be lusting after a bit of cross stitch but here are two pieces, the first is a necklace by nea the…
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Being Thrifty – the return of craft
Being Thrifty And The Return To Craft We are moving into a Protestant cycle. Out is over indulgence, overspending, and decadence, instead it is…
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