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snapdragon
Growing a small eco-business in central Scotland.
Interests: Laughing, eating, drinking, digging, sewing, sowing, cooking, walking, talking to chickens
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Thank you for all your kind comments - I think it is a common feeling when you run your own business - and probably a symptom of good things!
J x
Overwhelm
This week I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed. The business has been growing so fast in such a number of directions that it was beginning to look bulgy and have a life of its own. I felt that I was trying to drag along a heap of rats in a sack. I didn't feel like I was in charge. I like bein...
You have one ball for the background one for the foreground - each made from lengths of wool knotted together. Then you knit Fairisle fashion.
Very easy, all you have to remember to do is to knit in the ends.
J x
Kaffe Fassett
This is the book that changed my life When Glorious Knitting was published I was 16; I was an odd sort of teen - very creative in that I created lots of things, but constantly put off by there being a specific way that things should be done. A specific way that I never seemed able to master. ...
I am disturbed by the Toast catalogues - the models are surrounded by beauty and always look so depressed.
I find chirpy "cheer up love" phrases crowding my head as I flick through.
J x
But I do love Autumn.
Tea and Toast
It's that time of the year again (already) where the new Toast catalogue arrives and I start mourning the loss of summer just a tiny bit less, because I realise that Autumn and all it's glory is on its way! I should probably be embarressed that the Toast catalogue can make me less sad about th...
Thanks all - they are selling very well and I am delighted.
I've been sticking them to everything in sight.J x
The story of the stickers
I thought I would post today about the long drawn out process that has finally led to our stickers being printed and on sale HERE. The process began much earlier in the year - my girls had been urging me to make stickers for a number of years and I have had ages to mull over what I wanted, but...
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