May 2012 Blog Posts (10)

Pattern instructions always encourage blocking and yet it's something I never do. It might be a controversial opinion but I don't like blocking, to me it takes all the texture out of a handmade jumper. Maybe it's because I tend to knit cables I often feel they loose their fluidity once they've been pressed by a hot iron.

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Join us this week during Thursdays Marketplace, we're having a super Memorial Day Sale and our weekly Boutique Scrabble giveaway!

Like most pieces yarn bowls start off as just lumps of clay on the wheel head, there are only two basic shapes for beginners to learn and bowls are considered the easiest. Personally I find straight sided cylindrical forms easier to work with but maybe that's just how my mind works!

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A selection of my etsy favourites inspired by craft brewing

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"Closed up shop and have a few odds and ends to offer.. Some extra nice gemstones, and also a few pieces of jewelry.. http://ning.it/JWzVYu"

Anyway the Milestone kit is quite a bit different to my first go at brewing, this one comes with the usual two cans of wort and packet of yeast but also 'raspberry flavour'. This gets added to the beer once it's syphoned off into the pressure barrel.

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Cupcakes and Coffee To Go Miniature Food Ring…

7:00am EST Mon May 7 2012 One of our Japanese vintage items is featured on the Etsy front page. Vintage Japanese Painting Kaki Persimmon Gakuryo Nakamura Nihonga Style Showa Period :
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For the last three years I've been trying to grow tomatoes, its probably the plant that every gardener tries to grow at some point. This 'easy' plant has been causing me a lot of problems; from blight to moulds and just not planting them out early enough.

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