Craft Life

Gardeners Gifts and Floral Delights It's that time of year again isn't it. When everything is bursting out all over and the birds are having a great time in the glory of Summer. Not that you would think it today. It is bucketing down outside in the west of Ireland at the moment. All of our semi-feral wild cats are cosy in their beds here! Tabby, White Cheeks, Buster, Miss Prim and Miss Molly. I would love to climb into a fleece lined wine crate beside them all and snuggle up today too. Instead I decide to write about floral...

I Love Reading Good Bookmarks Encourage You to Read - Check these Out! I love reading but it wasn't always that way. As a child I thought reading books was a 'dusty' pursuit. Tedious and drawn out. I preferred comics, joke books (I had five on the go at one time) and fairy tales with beautiful illustrations that I used to trace on grease proof paper and keep rolled up somewhere. I am still attracted to children's books with beautiful illustrations and still have some of my childhood ones. I Was Encouraged into the World of Books By the Lure...

Fingerless Gloves CHECK OUT OUR WRIST WARMERS & FINGERLESS GLOVES Fingerless gloves immediately make me think of Fagan in Oliver Twist, counting money feverishly like the miser he was. The style brought to mind would be black knitted ones but with half fingers and not actually fingerless. So that's an immediate contradiction right there. It sounds as though I might stick my nose up at the mere mention of 'fingerless gloves'  but in actual fact I always have a black pair knocking about. I don't know exactly why I got my first pair but it was when I was in...

'Fingerless Gloves Women' It reads like the name of a tribe but it is a phrase in typical search term format. As is,  'fingerless gloves men'. 'Gloves without fingers', or whatever you call them are very popular these days. It has occurred to me that fingerless gloves and wool fingerless gloves in particular are particularly suited to particular climates. I imagine you might want more of the full finger gloves if you live in Canada or Scandinavia. The more northerly the place most likely the bigger the hand protection needed. Ireland Has a Temperate Cimate Yes, Ireland enjoys what they...

Handmade wedding cards seem to be 'de rigueur' at present and I am all for it.  I don't know when it happened but somewhere along the line I realised the value of handmade items. I suppose it comes from never being what you would call rich though I have been rich in many ways that are not measured financially. It occurred to me that I could have anything I wanted if I simply made it, used something in a different way, which we now term 're-purposing', swopped it or up-cycled it or indeed bought it second hand. Re-using or recycling...