Collecting and curating are buzz activities on the Internet. The web makes it possible to classify information like never before. Now that we use Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr and their sisters,…
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Last Autumn, we harvested the damson crop from the wilderness that is the bottom of the garden. I love the blacky blueness of the fruit with it’s milky lustred skins….
In our village, every second Thursday, it’s bin collection day and as the rest of us trundle out our large grey wheelie bins for collection, a man by the name…
We have accumulated about twenty packs of cards, and they all are kept in one drawer. However much I tidy them, tie ribbons around them, no one else in this…
We found this lovely easy project through the How About Orange website which gathers and produces lots of great ideas of easy crafting projects. Featured in this post is an…
We are delighted to have received a mention in Issue 3 of Mollie Makes, a contemporary crafting magazine, which very much reflects what we love about crafting and what we…
Another weekend, another vintage fair? Oh, yes please! Yesterday, Magpie Nanny P and I went along to The Vintage Home & Fashion Fair, in the pretty market town of Kirkby…
Why is this catching my eye? We may be waiting for the best of summer to happen, and the love affair with vintage china decorated with pretty florals and spots continues unabated…
Today, I received my lovely copy of Everything Alice – The Wonderland Book of Makes by Hannah Read-Baldrey and Christine Leech, and published by Quadrille. I am one of…
Today, our business baby, CoolCrafting, was born, at the Vintage Village Hall event at Great Urswick, nr Ulverston. After weeks of prep, we launched with five bitesize courses that gave…