There’s something brewing

Making home brew is something I’ve always wanted to try, I think I’ve wanted to understand more about the brewing process and become more ‘involved’. When I go down the pub I always prefer to drink real ale – my favourite being Fursty Ferret and Double Maxim. For Christmas my boyfriend got me a brewing [...]

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Tagged beer, brewing, brewing beer, home brew, making beer, real ale, woodfordes wherry

15 Sep 11

Making glass paperweights

My great grandfather was a glass blower for the Pyrex factory and because of this I’ve always wanted to learn more about glass. I never met my grandparents but I think through craft you can in some small way connect with your past, it becomes a very immediate physical link since making glass hasn’t changed [...]

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Tagged glass, handmade, hot glass, making paperweights, molten glass, national glass center, paperweight, sunderland glass center

20 Jun 11

Father’s Day tea party printables

Sunday was Father’s Day and I wracked my brain for ages trying to figure out what to do for my Dad. I decided a store bought gift just wasn’t going to cut it and I decided to indulge one of my Dad’s favourite things – afternoon cream tea. If you’re not familiar with cream tea’s [...]

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Tagged clotted cream, cream tea, fathers day, fathers day printables, free download, jam, scone, scone recipe

15 Jun 11

Let me show you my stash

A few months back I posted that I’d made a start on knitting Beatnik, well I’m still going with it but I’d like to share some hanks of yarn that make up my knitting stash. Whenever I go somewhere I try and pick up a few balls of local yarns, particularly if they’re from breeds [...]

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Tagged finnish yarn, knitting, wool, wool from finland, yarn

25 Jan 11

Knitting beatnik

Just before Christmas the new edition of knitty.com came out, about this time I was looking for aran jumper pattern to knit. I’d knit my boyfriend one a few years ago but I’d never made one for myself.