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Category Archives: Stories
Felt for Foraging and Jam making
Phew, what a crafty week I have put my poor hands through. After discovering a fallen oak branch laden with baby acorns I realised soon would be the time for autumnal treasure gathering in the forest. Technically we have a … Continue reading →
Posted in children, cooking, craft adventures, felting, garden, knitting, nature, seasonal, Stories
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Tagged apples, autumn, cherries, children, crochet, fall, felted belt, felted leaves, felting, foraging, foraging belt, forest, fruit, Gardening, home produce, jam, jam making, knitting, leaves, machine embroidery, nature, pagan, roving, season, seasonal, sewing, simple jam recipe, soft fruit, summer, wet felting, woodland, woods, wool
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Woodland Wings and Birthday Rings
My little girl has just turned four. I have no idea where the time has gone. As I sit here writing this I cannot help but smile at all of the wonderful memories she has given me; that both of … Continue reading →
Posted in children, craft adventures, felting, Fibres, nature, seasonal, Stories, Waldorf / Steiner
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Tagged birthday, birthday ideas, children love, faeries, fairies, forest, making waldorf dolls, parenting, photography, play silks, travel, Waldorf, waldorf doll, waldorf family, walking, walking north wales, woodland
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Spinning and storytelling
“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.” Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. I have recently joined a medieval re-enactment … Continue reading →
Posted in children, craft adventures, Fibres, Home Education, knitting, Spinning, Stories
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Tagged bedtime, brothers grimm, drop spindle, fable, fairy tale, medieval, myths, old english, rumpelstiltskin, sleeping beauty, spinning, spinning wheel, Story, storytelling, tale, witch craft
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Fairy Caves
My little girl, Emily worried about the fairies a couple of nights ago as we walked home through the snow. She asked what the sparkles were on the ground and Toby and I told her it was where the fiaries … Continue reading →
Have yourselves a merry little Christmas / Yule / Winter Solstice… whatever…
I love having children this time of year… being Pagan I do wonder about whether or not it is right to celebrate Christmas, but as so much of it is pagan in origin and so much has come from other … Continue reading →
The Story of the Walter Bird
For the last couple of weeks a Walter Bird has been waking me every morning around 5:30 am. Here is his story. As a little girl we lived next door to an elderly couple, Lucy and Jim. When … Continue reading →
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