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Easter Holidays
The Easter holidays have been great fun and action packed. We have been Designing.. Making...turning a box into garage with car wash and Mc donalds drive- through. Making potions...which event...
Proud Mum
Yesterday we went to Harry's Passing Out Parade along with Grandparents, and his friends went to support him. It was quite a big event. It was amazing when his troop marched passed and we were a...
Happy days :)
Blowing gently.. Bowing harder... BLOWING REALLY HARD!! How gorgeous is it to run free through the Dandelions in spring ? Happy Days :)
Spring is here :)
On Sunday I was at The Dairy House for the 2nd Vintage Textile Fair. There were lots of guest stalls outside full of gorgeous vintage textile related goodies and inside was packed full of b...
Spring Fever
This is what happened to the beads I was making, this is a picture of six of my new necklaces. There have been requests for one as above which I am working on at the moment. A collection of thes...
Dinosaur Birthday
Arthur has had a fantastic Birthday weekend. Saturday he had a special Birthday day with his best friend. Tony took them to the Haynes Motor Museum to see the Alien Invasion. While I got ready f...
Colourful Beads
I have been having more fun making beads. This time I have made them by crocheting a ball and stuffing it with merino tops, using all the different wools I have as a little test. Then putting the...
OO shiney :)
Arthur has been home sick with a cold for 2 days, so I've not been able to make it into the new studio to work. I have managed to crochet these beads though :) Which have taken 2 days to make ...
Its been a making sort of weekend..
I made these little flowers and beads yesterday, I'm working on a new collection of necklaces so making beads to go with my scumbled crochet ones. Arthur saw them this morning and asked how I ma...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-been-making-sort-of-weekend.html
Good News and Bad News.
I have decided to close the shop in Wincanton from the end of January. This is good news for me but I know a lot of people will be disappointed. I have had a massive amount of support over the ye...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-news-and-bad-news.html
How to Marble Paper
Gather together a deep dish that paper will fit into laying flat, or cut paper to fit. Lots of different things for making the swirls, we had cocktail sticks,chop stick, whisk, crochet hook, pen...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-marble-paper.html
A fab week.
I put all my buttons out in the shop last week, to make jewellery and button hearts and to demonstrate how to make them. Customers could also have a go and make a button heart for £5.00, which ...
Feel like we have been on fast forward..
The older boys have turned into adults over night? They both looked very smart when they went to their proms. Me and Harry had a lovely trip to Bath to find him the suit above for his last Army ...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2010/07/feel-like-we-have-been-on-fast-forward.html
A Beautiful Week
What a fantastic hot week its been. I had a stall at the Anonymous travelling market on Saturday and it was sweltering from very early on. I stupidly did not take my marquee, thinking we would b...
Summer is...
Collecting Potatoes we've grown in the garden, Arthur was so excited we had to cook them immediately. Jumping waves. we went down to Poole on Monday afternoon for a picnic lunch by the sea, a r...
Frome Artisan Market
It was a fab day at Frome Artisan Market, full of wonderful colour and lots of people dressed up for the occasion. I only had 5 minutes to pop up the hill while a friend watched my stall. Whil...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2010/06/it-was-fab-day-at-frome-artisan-market.html
phew we made it!
A little glimpse into the new Tamsyn G shop. Which at the start I was slightly worried we would get finished in time. Before it got to the state below I had to empty it out of all the prints and...
New Look, new start.
I am getting very excited about the move to our new shop. On the 29th of May we are closing the Gillingham shop and moving it to 59 High Street Wincanton. It will have a new look and new directi...
over the rainbow
Yesterday was full of storms, torrential rain caught me and Arthur out when we walked into town to get a paper..sunny when we started a down pour when we came out. We huddled under cover and wai...
Spring Greens
We have had a lovely bank Holiday Monday, doing odd jobs around the house and the garden, me and the boys had nettle soup for lunch, made with nettles, potatoes,onion lovage, rosemary and oregan...
The Dairy House and The Artisan Market
This is the Liz's (washerwoman) little corner..and behind me is all her gorgeous vintage clothes and lots more fabric I only managed to get this pic before she got lost under a sea of fabric, h...
http://tamsyng.blogspot.com/2010/04/dairy-house-and-artisan-market.html
Happy Day :)
Easter morning the Easter bunny visited the garden...really! was quite difficult though as Arthur was looking out all the time from 6.30. It was only when I woke George and Harry could we distra...
Discovering the Garden
Over the past couple of weeks while it has been dry, we have tried to get in the garden as much as possible, it is amazing now to go home after work and spend an hour digging and clearing. Discov...