Birthday Blog Hop With Prizes And Lots of Friendly Plastic Ideas

Not my birthday you understand, but the first birthday of an online challenge group called Craftroom Challenge.  Rare Bird is sponsoring some of the challenges they have every two weeks.  My hat goes off to Zoe and her design team for organising it all.  Zoe asked me if I wanted to be included in a [...]

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Digitalis Fanciformus – sneeky peek.

A very big thank you to every one of you who sent me gloves for my textile project, here is a sneeky peek at what some of them have been turned into.  They are very much a work in progress at the moment as you can see. Flower heads dumped on the table above.  They will have [...]

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PlayAway 2012

I can’t believe that I have just spent 3 whole days away indulging myself in good company and creativity at an experimental PlayAway in deepest, darkest Worcestershire. As you can see from the photo below, it was a select group of 6 (Annie Mackay, Mary Whittaker, me, Neet aka Anita Hickson, Wendy Kirk and Adrienne Wood) [...]

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Last Minute Opportunity

A last minute opportunity has just come up for a place on the 2 day Friendly Plastic, Mixed Media and Textile weekend course at Caernarfon Castle this weekend 24th and 25th September.  One lady sadly has had to drop out due to unforseen circumstances, which  gives someone else the opportunity of coming.  If you don’t [...]

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Friendly Plastic Weekend at Caernarfon Castle

Following on from the last two years of weekend classes in historic Welsh buildings (Tintern Abbey and Cheptstow Castle), I am delighted to be able to let you know about another Friendly Plastic  course I am running in September at Caernarfon Castle.  As usual places are limited.  The last two years have been great fun, immersing [...]

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Gifts

Last week was so busy that I did not have time to fill you in on the Craft Barn Extravaganza weekend.  Sadly I have no photos of the event, and it was way too busy to stop and take some! Despite it taking 4 hours rather than 2 1/2 hours to get there, at almost midnight [...]

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Flowers

I thought I might brighten up my demo table at the Craft Barn Extravaganza with  some rather whacky flowers.  they are all made entirely out of scraps of Friendly Plastic. In order to take this rather sub standard photo I had to hold my bunch of flowers in front of the tumble dryer as it was the [...]

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Craft Barn Extravaganza

Are you going?  I don’t mean round the twist, down to the shops, or on Holiday! I mean are you going to the Craft Barn in Lingfield next weekend  (4th and 5th June) for their Extravaganza of demonstrations.  Loads of things to see, chairs to sit on to watch the demos without your feet falling [...]

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After The Show Was Over…

If you managed to get to the NEC last week / over the weekend for the Hobbycraft, Sewing for Pleasure and Fashion Embroidery and Stitch shows, you should have had a great time with all the fabulous work on display, and all the opportunity in the world for some serious retail therapy.  If you did [...]

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Trade Show and Create and Craft Dates

I am delighted to let you all know that I have another date for Create and Craft TV – Monday 7th march.  I need to check things out but the Friendly Plastic show might well be on Ideal World instead of C&C.  More on this after the trade show. Speaking of which, tomorrow the Hobbycraft and Stitch International trade show [...]

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