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Yes please dont leave it till you get back from your trip all bronzed and gorgeous as I will be too envious to show you how to knit ;)
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent creativeclasses at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Followus on Twitter @Frenchknots2011
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Not publicity shy....for once!
A while ago some photos were taken to publicise the Crafternoon Tea Parties that I run with Gwyn and for once I have a picture of me that I rather like. Probably because I am wearing plenty of make up and also because Jane is a wonderful photographer. Gwyn and I really enjoy hosting our Tea ...
Thank goodness for photoshop!
Jo
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent creativeclasses at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Followus on Twitter @Frenchknots2011
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Not publicity shy....for once!
A while ago some photos were taken to publicise the Crafternoon Tea Parties that I run with Gwyn and for once I have a picture of me that I rather like. Probably because I am wearing plenty of make up and also because Jane is a wonderful photographer. Gwyn and I really enjoy hosting our Tea ...
Its funny the pictures we build in our head of people isnt it!
Jo
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent creativeclasses at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Followus on Twitter @Frenchknots2011
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Not publicity shy....for once!
A while ago some photos were taken to publicise the Crafternoon Tea Parties that I run with Gwyn and for once I have a picture of me that I rather like. Probably because I am wearing plenty of make up and also because Jane is a wonderful photographer. Gwyn and I really enjoy hosting our Tea ...
Well done for being brave and going for it! I have been working for myself for nearly 3 years now and while the money is much less the satisfaction and enjoyment is so much greater.
You might find it is a bit isolating, especially if you are used to a busy working day with lost of people - I certainly did so I made contact with other local ladies who run their own businesses too and we meet up every couple of weeks to discuss challenges/problems etc and support each other.
Jo
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New Year's Resolutions
I know, I know, it is ages until New Year - there is the whole matter of the 'C' word to contend with first, plus the small matter of November and December, but today I have made my New Year's Resolutions. Birthday flowers. Yesterday was my 38th birthday. Having surrounded myself with a husba...
I am a technical numptie but I read on someone else's blog that Google+ has an automatically ticked box called auto correct colour. I wonder if that is the problem? I unticked the box (once I managed it to find it!) and I think mine look a bit better, I'm on Typepad too.
Lovely quilt!
144**2013 - baby girl quilt -
Day 3 of 1/2 term. Two out of three children at home. 8.26am. High wind, the odd shard of blue sky, 14C (57F). There's a baby coming in the family and we don't know if it's going to be a girl or a boy. So I made two quilts. (Any excuse...) Because I had the fabric and the time, when the boy...
Hugo is just checking you do it right,what a good helper ;)
Ready for the long arm quilter....
Quilters Garden fabrics...coming to a store near you early 2014...meanwhile I get to play with the fabrics now :) I know its not fair but thats the way it is! Helen Thompson who joined me in a class in the UK is raising funds to send her daugther on a trip of a lifetime next year and is stitch...
Goodness that room looks amazing,magical and ready for the celebrations.
wedding preparations...
An empty hall .... just waiting to be decorated... lots of hire chairs and tables arriving... A happy bride to be unloading the car boot... Boxes of jars, ready to be filled, some with sand for the candles and some with flowers a car full of flowers, roses from the local rose farm, ba...
I have been working for myself for almost 3 years now and while the money is far, far less than I made before in my 'proper' job I enjoy it sooo much more. I can be there for my children, plan my working hours and if I feel lonely I go to some local networking meetings to meet other self employed people-ladies mostly.
Go for it!!
Happy Days
I am super excited today! One of my necklaces has been featured on October Etsy Picks over on the gorgeous Lobster and Swan blog - a blog I have followed and loved for many years. I am so thrilled that something I have made has been featured somewhere I have looked to for inspiration myself. ...
Thank you Annie, I really want to be well even though taking the meds the Dr prescribed has made me feel worse but at least I can say I tried them but I wouldnt take antidepressants again, they certainly didnt help.
I had one lesson of meditation and has such a profound experience that I am going to keep doing it, as she talked me through it in my minds eye I could see lilac air going into my nose and the pain (in mywristsespecially) became blurred yet morefocusedin the actual joint rather than radiating out. I also started to cry and found it reallymoving, which surprised me as I rather pragmatic usually.
The last few weeks I have got worse and am nodding off at 8pm or even during the day and wonder if the Dr will add ME/CFS to his diagnosis.
Hope you have got over your run of illness at the turn of the year. My crochet offer still stands,youd have it cracked in no time
Jo
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Missing
I have been missing my blog but my motivation seems to be missing too! Late last year I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had to take some medication which made me feel ill. I persevered as I was told it would make me feel less exhausted, it didn't and during February I started falling asleep ...
Am trying to regain a bit of my va va voom but it seems long gone! The crafternoon teas are such a delight, so many lovely crafty ladies enjoyingthemselveswith heaps of cake -perfect!
Jo
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent Creative Workshops at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Missing
I have been missing my blog but my motivation seems to be missing too! Late last year I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had to take some medication which made me feel ill. I persevered as I was told it would make me feel less exhausted, it didn't and during February I started falling asleep ...
It does seem to be a permanent condition, though Im not sure he is quite on the button with the diagnosis, and there seems to be a bit of oh yes she is female and middle aged so we will say its fibro about it. Though as I reach the middle of my 40s I think middle age must surely be when I am over 50!
Am enjoying seeing your basket work creations - Mrs Multitalented!
Jo
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent Creative Workshops at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Missing
I have been missing my blog but my motivation seems to be missing too! Late last year I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had to take some medication which made me feel ill. I persevered as I was told it would make me feel less exhausted, it didn't and during February I started falling asleep ...
Thank you, my little business is my pride and joy a bit like another child! I have scaled back the number of workshops to two a week though and am looking at doing more with my kits as I need to regroup and recover. I didnt feel this bad looking after a newborn with no sleep!
Jo
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Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent Creative Workshops at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Missing
I have been missing my blog but my motivation seems to be missing too! Late last year I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had to take some medication which made me feel ill. I persevered as I was told it would make me feel less exhausted, it didn't and during February I started falling asleep ...
Youd pick it up in no time. Happy to teach you! Dont think you are miles from me, could meet half way??
Jo
Jo Johnston
French Knots Craft Studio
0777 578 0533
www.frenchknots.co.uk
See thecurrent Creative Workshops at http://frenchknots.co.uk/a1-page.asp?ID=3750page=4
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/frenchknotscraftstudio
Snuggly Scarf
Thanks to My Little Helper for taking the photo I think it was Chipper Nelly who posted the link to this simple scarf. Just the right size for filling that little gap at the top of your coat and for keeping your neck nice and warm. I'd had a little trip over to Black Sheep where I had found s...
Congratulations Jane, richly deserved.
A new page for Snapdragon
I am not a natural business woman. My background is largely academic - my degree was in Art History, my post grad in Museums studies and I happily immersed myself in the rather rarefied world of museum galleries until I decided one morning that it just wasn't what I wanted to spend my life doing...
Blogging really documents our lives and the passage of time, that's one of the reasons I love it. But it's poignant too as the children grow and their need for us changes.
Good to see you back!
Anyone out there?
That was a long break. I took photographs this weekend on a beautiful family hike in the woods as is our Thanksgiving tradition and I was reminded once again how time flies. That was then, 5 years ago, when I started blogging. Just look at them now. *sigh*.
Brilliant photos! We will celebrate our 25th anniversay soon, as you say - where does the time go? I knitted an aran jumper in the 80s with my Mum, I did the cuffs she did the rest! xx
time flies
I've been sitting here, in the quiet of the early afternoon, with my cup of coffee, sewing up bunny heads and pondering just how it can be 28 years since these two young people went out on their first ever date and yet yesterday their oldest child became a teenager. Doesn't time whizz...
Looks like the perfect picnic spot to me.
Misty update
I was going to show you a picture of the misty afghan now that it has 96 squares (12 x 8). I spread it out neatly ready to take a photo but when I came back from getting the camera (which it seems is never where I think I have left it) someone had decided it looked like a good place for a picnic...
Oh the foxes are so sweet!
I love pottering on my allotment, though it doesn't happen often enough so I am best at growing weeds!
a give-away
Well, the animals are now fully armed (though not dangerous in the least little bit) and they have their tails and buttons attached in the appropriate places too. So to celebrate the start of my 7th year of blogging I'm going to give one of them away. To enter just leave a comment below. A...
I find if I call chilli/curry type things 'stew' the fussy blighters are more likely to eat it.
I also roll leftover chilli etc up in a puff pastry bundle and call it savoury slice which might not please you No 3 but is great for using up leftovers.
113//2011
It happens every once is a while... I get sooo bored of cooking the same food, sooo bored of eating the same food. Bored of shopping for the same food even. So when it happens, out come the recipe books and the conflict management manuals (the boys are not adventurous eaters and the dinner tabl...
When the clock is ticking loudly in your ear laughter is a good way to drown it out.
It is awful, just awful, cancer is shit.
Sending my love to you all
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Summer was not how I had hoped it would be. The...
Summer was not how I had hoped it would be. The last 8 weeks have been a blur of tears and fear and hope and more fear. We're all still here, but life is not what it should be for any of us. We're grateful for it though. We're grateful for any time there is. I want to come back here, but th...
We have had some brilliant winter holidays up there, one Christmas there was ice on the beach which looked amazing.
And who can resist Barter Books!
I love holidays!!!
I've taken a slightly longer break than planned from blogging - but I'm back! The last week of term was crazy busy, and time ran away with me. I don't know why everything seems to happen at once. I did decorate for Easter, but forgot to take any photos but looks pretty much the same as last year...
Handmade Christmas Decorations Workshop
Posted Nov 29, 2011 at French Knots Craft Studio
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Bunting Making Class
Posted Nov 11, 2011 at French Knots Craft Studio
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Crochet Class - A New Granny
Posted Nov 4, 2011 at French Knots Craft Studio
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Dyeing to Knit Class
Posted Oct 19, 2011 at French Knots Craft Studio
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