Sea and Wood

This blog's on an extended break due to small children and a sudden and all-consuming passion for sports. You can find me over at Tri-fle Ambitious until I get my stash organised again!  

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And there he is, in all his glory - doesn't it look fantastic! Thanks, Kerry ! The heart brooches on the front are from Ali at Very Berry , by the way. Right now I'm busily working away on Chr...

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So did you get your copy of Crafteroo Magazine ? Isn't it great! There are so many projects I want to try - the paper flowers and felt fortune cookies are top of my list right now, but aaargh, it...

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  It is OUT NOW! Go get it :) Seriously, how can you say no to 64 pages of awesome crafts, written by people who live and breathe this stuff for fun every day? For just £1.50 of your English P...

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...well, I am - ten days to go until the Crafteroo magazine hits the internets! I submitted the last of my tutorials over the weekend and now I can give you some tiny sneak peeks of what I've be...

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No, not Tim Minchin (but he is awesome so you should check him out, too). But this:   Check it out. I have three tutorials going in it! So that's why I haven't been around much. Well, at all ...

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Oh, deary me, I'm very behind on this here blogging thingie...I keep misplacing my camera, and when I do find it it's too murky to get any decent photos. So, apologies to Meridian Ariel for tak...

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About this time last year, not long after baby D's amazing home birth and with all the energy I was saving by co-sleeping, I had a real rush of "I can do anything" juice (not to mention materni...

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It's my sister's birthday lunch today and I don't have a thing to wear. Well, now I have. Upcycled crochet necklace This is upcycled from a plastic ring off a scarf which was used to display i...

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And safely received, so here's what I made for Meridian Ariel (picture-heavy entry, this one): Almost the whole box... Can you spot the sneaky peek from the last entry? Let's see...Stash Goo...

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...but actually, I'm not going to show you anything I've made yet, because I've just finished and it's all photographed ready to be posted to Meridian Ariel tomorrow. At last! We're as tardy as ...

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You know it says "ponderings and random gibberish" at the top of the blog, here? Yeah...expect a bit more of that at the moment whilst I work through my "what is the point of art"-type thing. It'...

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I feel a bit blindsided by this week, and to be honest, there's no real reason to feel that way. K is back in school for the last leg of Reception, I'm back to working Saturdays after half-term w...

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K: "Mummy, when I grow up I want to be an artist" Me: "Oh? Why's that, then?" K: "I just love painting." For a long time, I've lived by the maxim "There's nothing I can't do, just things I haven...

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So, I said in my last post that I'd got new knives from Fred Aldous and then kind of trailed off about that because I got side-tracked talking about pens and drawing. As it happens, the knives h...

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Oh dear, it's been rather a while, hasn't it. The Easter hols were pretty busy and broken-up with various days off school and so our family rhythm was almost completely shot (the arrival of Drago...

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Google tells me the Japanese for Happy Mother's Day is Haha nohi omedeto. I do hope that's right! There will be a lot of people without mothers or children in Japan today and the devastation hasn...

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Yes, I know I've missed out Sekrit Project #3. That's because I started it, then the Winnie costume had to be done, then I suddenly realised I MUST start work on #4 because it was for a birthday....

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K's school have combined World Book Day and Red Nose Day this year, meaning you only have to do one day of dressing up etc. This is a good plan as they're so close together, and it gave us plen...

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Hurray, Sekrit Project #2 is also confirmed as safely arrived. So now I can show you our decoupage on a larger scale! This is a gift for the lovely Dr J's birthday. I've been wanting to make t...

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I've been cackling all week on Twitter about having a couple of secret (quite why I keep writing it "sekrit" I don't know but it amuses me for no good reason) projects on the go, and now that I ...

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K looooooves butterflies. She's not an especially girly-girl - we seem to have skipped the pink princesses phase so far (there's still time, I'm under no illusions!) - but butterflies are The B...

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And it is a very happy Valentine's - my little sis got engaged today. Awwwww! Hokay, cut to the chase, woman - I have a new free pattern for you to download, which has happened rather by accide...

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You know how I said things are very very very slow? Yeah. I actually started this project over a month ago. To be honest though, I have spent quite a bit of that time playing Dragon Age in antici...

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As loulouk would say :-D So yes, things are very very very slow here, sorry. Every single time I sit down to write something there is the inevitable wail of baby-needs-mummy, and even if I sit ...

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