craft

Fun with felt at home education group

January 7, 2016 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

First meet of the year, a workshop run by a felting expert. Now, I’m reasonably familiar with felt after my Kentwell experience, but I’m never going to pass up on the chance to work with an expert, and this turned out to be great fun. Smallest designed a picture, I just love the way the […]

Filed Under: places we like Tagged With: art, craft, felting, home education, wet felting, yarn

How to make a fabric indoor wreath

December 10, 2015 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

I was recently approached by Turtle Mat to take part in a wreath making activity, they were kind enough to send me the materials for the wreath and a catalog of their products. (Do check out their Christmas collection, I’m eyeing up a boot stand as a possible organisational tool to help reclaim the porch.) […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: craft, fabric offcuts, making winter, reenactment, Turtlemat, winter, wreath

Circle time.

September 30, 2015 By Jax Blunt 16 Comments

It will surprise no one who knows me that I’m pretty much making this up on the fly 🙂 (If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, pop back to the first post about creative circles here. I’ll wait.) What I have in mind is a situation in which we all support each other. The support […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: art, craft, creators circle, drawing, writing

Opening a creative circle

September 27, 2015 By Jax Blunt 20 Comments

I have written stories for as long as I can remember. I’ve never joined a writer’s group. I’ve started drawing and painting and general art. But I’m not sure about the local art club. And there’s knitting and sewing and crochet and spinning, costume to make and felt to, well, felt. Creativity is something that […]

Filed Under: Doodling, drawing and decoration., Making things, ufos Tagged With: craft, creative circle, design, drawing, illustration, writing

Getting creative with insurance savings from Cavendish online.

June 1, 2015 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Do you have life insurance? I don’t. I did, once upon a time, when I worked for a bank. It kind of came with the package. But that lapsed a while back, and one of the reasons I’ve never got organised again is because of the cost. But recently I was approached by Cavendish online […]

Filed Under: the public face Tagged With: Cavendish Online, Compare the Market, craft, life insurance, mascot, needle felting, savings

Friday in photos.

May 22, 2015 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

Mainly because I’m still sewing. No, don’t say anything, I know! Tools of the trade. Including Dylon. Nearly finished. So nearly finished. Just keep sewing. (One hour dress. Humph.)

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: 1920s, craft, dressmaking, Dylon, reenactment, sewing

Minimum mess makes – Spring pictures.

March 13, 2014 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

As I blogged recently, I have some issues with mess. Since then, I’ve been trying to make sure that we do something crafty or sensory pretty much every day that we’re here (if we’re out and about I don’t bother quite so much!) I wish I’d written more nine/ten years ago about what I did […]

Filed Under: Book club, Doodling, drawing and decoration., It's where it is, Soa, tigerboy Tagged With: cotton wool, craft, double sided sticky tape, Lily gets lost, Spring pictures

Stepping up to the messy play plate.

February 27, 2014 By Jax Blunt 13 Comments

I don’t like sticky, messy things. I’m not even fond of kneading dough or mixing cake. And as a young child, Small was much the same. It’s not fair though, to let that impact on the younger two. So since Christmas I’ve been making a real effort to get crafty and messy with them. We’ve […]

Filed Under: Doodling, drawing and decoration., Soa, tigerboy Tagged With: Baker Ross, Butterfly Painting, craft, home educating younger children

Sometimes I forget the important things

May 30, 2013 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

And I need a little reminder. Today we were sent a WeekendBoxClub box for review and knowing that I’m away this weekend, I thought I’d get started on it straight away. I’d forgotten how lovely it is to spend one to one time with Smallest, focusing on her and just doing something for her. I […]

Filed Under: Making things, review, Soa Tagged With: carrot soup, craft, pom pom animals, WeekendBoxClub

Minotaur peg doll puppet for historyetc

January 27, 2011 By Jax Blunt 10 Comments

Once a month or so we clamber in the car and trek a fair distance to meet up with other home educating families and join in a history club. It’s based loosely on The Story of the World: Ancient Times, and I can’t remember if this is our second or third session – may be […]

Filed Under: Ages past, Making things Tagged With: craft, historyetc, minotaur, sotw, story of the world