All Loved Up
Why not get something unique and special for the one you love (even if thats yourself) for Valentines Day or any other day! From us or from one of the other very talented people on Folksy.
Crafty Creations
Your Name Your Style
Graffiti is a style that Chris really enjoys, but we like to keep him on the right side of the law, so as much as he’d like to be painting on walls for now he is restricted to paper! If you would like to make the most of his captivity and have your own personalised … Read more
Fabulous Folky
We don’t just have a shop here on this site, we also have ourselves a little corner on Folksy, which is a marvellous collection of very talented folk from Britain. On a Friday some of these friendly folk like to share each others work, so we thought we would join in. Every Friday you will … Read more
Mugshots!
If ewe follow us on Instagram brew have grounds for thinking that we have bean doing no work, just exploring the localitea with our half pints. But we haven’t just bean procaffeinating, we have bean multeatasking and extending our range of brewteaful mugs, perfect wether ewe are a coffee, tea or hot chocolate drinker!! As … Read more
When it snows!
I love the saying by Oscar Wilde “When it rains look for rainbows, when it’s dark look for stars.” It is so positive, encouraging you to look on the bright side. We have spent since Saturday snowed in, only able to leave our property on foot. I love the snow and so was very happy … Read more
Return of the Great British Bake Off!
We aren’t sure how to feel yet about the Great British Bake Off moving from the BBC, but have to admit that there were some amazing cakes on last nights show. I really want to eat that Sandwich! 🙂 Why not encourage your future Bake Off winner with one of these lovely titles … Or … Read more
St Fagans Makers’ Market
St Fagans National Museum of History is an amazing place for a day out, with over forty original buildings from different historical periods that have been re-erected on the site, our favourite is the recreation of an iron age farmstead. But telling you all about the site is a post for another day. Today we … Read more
Mad Hatters Craft Party
At the end of last year we were invited to join the Mad Hatters Craft Party. We were thrilled to be invited and happily donned silly hats to join this lovely group of artisans who gather from time to time, at least once a month, in the Buttermarket in Hay-on-Wye. We were glad that we … Read more
Memory Burden Reducers – aka Bookmarks
It’s a little known fact but in our hectic modern society the human brain is able to remember more than four things at a time, an incredible feat of referencing and recall. But now, thanks to the recent invention of the bookmark, you can remove one of those memory burdens in order to add another. … Read more
Extraordinary Mushrooms
Just last week I was exploring at the bottom of the garden, where the grass grows high and the trees are twisty and covered in moss, when I chanced upon an unusual patch of extraordinary mushrooms. Fascinated, I knelt down and crawled carefully forward for a closer look. I was astonished to see little windows … Read more
The Great Ribbon Robbery
When books were invented they were the size of a church door. You had to have a special room built on the side of your house to keep them in. But as technology’s come in they’ve got the size down so that now you can carry that book without it spoiling the line of a … Read more
Wedding – Ring bearers box & Oathing stones
Where does the time go? I really had meant to write about some of our creative Wedding DIY projects far sooner, we have now been married for over 3 whole months! But as they say “better late than never”! Even though our ceremony was small and concise, we wanted our families to be involved, so … Read more
30 Days, 30 Minutes
While roaming the blogasphere I stumbled across Stuff and Nonsense, they are participating in something called “30 Days – 30 Minutes” which is a creativity challenge laid down by Rag Baby. “You must spend 30 minutes a day for 30 days creating something. They don’t have to be consecutive days, there just have to be … Read more