Things are looking very spring-like around here now. We have apple blossom…

And forget-me-nots…

And the drifts of bluebells in our copse are just coming into flower…

All of which has prompted me into doing some gardening. I’m a somewhat intermittant gardener, only taking action when I’m feeling thoroughly enthused about it, or when I can’t [...]

Eek, it’s been a while since I last posted here! Did you miss me?!
Rather than go through everything I’ve done lately in detail, here’s a photo montage that shows some of the highlights.
As you can see, there were lambs involved.

Click through to see more details.
Or just enjoy the pictures. I’ll write [...]

I hope you all had a lovely festive holiday. We’ve had a wintry few days here in the UK, only ice and rain here on the farm so far, but the snowy weather looks to be turning our way this week, so I’m hoping for at least some by new year. I do love [...]

I’ve come over all bashful… and excited, as I’ve just seen that my first wholesale batch of resin spindles are now listed at The Spinning Loft.
I took a couple of photos before they left here…

But do head over to Beth’s site and take a look, especially if you’re in the US, as she’s there too [...]

Yup, it’s definitely autumn here now, I found these on the lawn yesterday…

Today I had a lovely ‘me’ day, which involved a bit of pottering around, a little sheep maintenance, some light Wildcraft admin (I get twitchy if I’m away from my computer for too long…) and to top it all, I finished a sewing project I’ve had on the shelf for ages.
It seems like [...]

There’s been a fantastic response to my resin spindle competition, many thanks to all of you who left comments.  It’s been loads of fun reading your suggestions, you’re a really creative bunch!
It was really hard to choose just one winner, and I’ll certainly  be drawing on many of your ideas for future spindles.  As a [...]

As a (belated) celebration of the launch of my new blog, I’m holding a competition. All you have to do is leave me a comment suggesting something that could be included in one of my resin spindles. It could be anything, from flowers, to insects, sweet wrappers to wristwatch parts, anything! The [...]

So, here I am with a blog on my very own web site, I feel all grown up. If you’ve come here from my old blog, thanks for coming over, and if you’re new, welcome!  This blog will be pretty similar to the old one, with the same crafty goodies, lots of yummy fibre [...]

A brand new post on my brand new blog.  More to come soon!