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Good morning all.

Proud mum moment here this week 

We spent Saturday at the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Yarnies event held in the old dye room.

It was a super day. The room was filled with beautiful dyed yarns and fibres.

Tilly was invited by the organizers to show her work and of course demonstrate her craft.

We met lots of lovely folk, many were interested to find out about her workshops too.

She sold quite a lot of her artwork, cards etc so she was thrilled. It was a great opportunity to share a  quality day together.

This week I am putting together workshop packs and having a couple of days out and about. 

Lastly, I know you will all be feeling sad at the loss of a treasured member of our group. Neet was a lovely lady, so thoughtful, caring and such a creative artist. We loved meeting up with her and Chas at our crafty get togethers. She will be sadly missed by us all.

Here is a little selection of Neet's ATC characters that she sent me over the years. All very quirky and very Neet. The card in the middle is the one that I had written and was ready to post to her on the day we heard the sad news. RIP dear lady.

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning all 

I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine.

Yesterday was a bit chilly due to a north wind but hoping for more sunshine later in the week.

I managed to get my cards finished.

Some are similar to ones I've made before.

These are slightly different.

I've a few birthdays coming up so they will be useful.

The rest of my time has been spent pricing and prepping items for Tilly. She is having a stall at the Yarnies event at the Flaxmill Shrewsbury on Saturday.

She has had some magnets made using her felted designs. I think they look lovely.

She also has extended her card range. I'm sure they will fly off the shelves. Who doesn't love a puffin?!

So that's me for this week.

I'm hoping Neet is OK as we haven't heard from her for a while. Hugs to you if you are reading this Neet.

Have a good week

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning to all our WOYWW friends and anyone else who pops in to see what I'm up to.

I've actually managed a bit of crafting of my own this week by making a background piece ready for some card making 

I added a few flowers and free machined a couple before I ran out of steam.

My dear hubby has passed his cold on to me and I've a nasty sore throat so not much energy.

We did manage a visit to the Ironworks at Oswestry. They have a fantastic display of sculptures made from recycled metal.

Some of them are quite scary but Ben loved them.

They must take hours to produce and seem to be made from car, motor cycle and machine parts as well as old bike tyres, chains etc 

Hopefully I get rid of this cold before the weekend as we are going to Wonderwool Wales in Builth for our Tilly Tea Dance staff outing.🤣

Have a good week all 

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning all.

My beautiful plants were a gift from my little sis for our wedding anniversary.. They are Senetti which I hadn't heard of. I love the bright jewel- like colours.

My sewing room has seen a bit of Tilly action this week.

I stitched the finished bookmarks onto her cards and bagged them up for sale.

Then she gave me a dozen little flower brooches to add fasteners to the backs and bag them up.

Every little job I do helps to keep her little business flourishing so it's very satisfying.

She's had a few problems with folk copying her work and then going on to hold workshops based on them. I guess social media makes it possible and easy to find lovely work and use it for financial gain. It's just a shame that these folk can't use their own ideas and creativity.. Crafters are usually so much more thoughtful and respectful. That's life these days I guess. Rant over!!

So that's me for this week.

Have a good week all.

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning all. I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend.

Ours ended with family tea here and Ben made my busy day all worthwhile by saying "I love it when we all get together" It just shows the simplest things with love, security and friendship mean more to youngsters than we might think.

At last I've got around to knitting a few more twiddle mitts......

A seaside one with a puffin and a lighthouse. There is a fisherman in a dinghy on the reverse.

Then I fancied making a coral reef. 

They are fun to knit and decorate.

Now I need to get a few more design ideas so that I can make a few more.

Lastly we had another lovely outing to Powis Castle. So, just a few photos to share ...

It was a beautiful day and we all enjoyed a gentle walk and the beautiful blossom, tulips and Clivia.

Have a good week all 

x x Jo 🌈 

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Just a quickie this morning!

This week I have been continuing my work for Tilly Tea Dance .

She is taking her work to the Flaxmill Yarnies event next month where she will be demonstrating her art and selling felting materials and her own art.

So, I have been busy making fibre packs. They are just little packs of fibres, yarns etc that can be used for. Needle felting projects. I love putting colours together and creating little packs of gorgeousness 

My next job was to use up some of our alpaca yarn and dye it to create colours for foliage on felted pictures. It is such lovely soft yarn that takes the dye beautifully. Tilly will be felting this into her pictures and also snipping it up to use in workshops. (See her updated website here if you want to know more Tilly Tea Dance)

So, that's me for this week.

Have a great week.

x x Jo 🌈 

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 Here we are again.

Another week, another What's on Your work desk Wednesday.

This week I have been working for Tilly. This was my table yesterday..

I created over twenty fibre packs. It's time consuming but I enjoy the slow pleasure of choosing merino fluff in toning colours and putting them together ready for sale at workshops.

I've also been bagging up postcards to go with all the other stock for Tilly's sale shelf at The Bog Visitor Centre.

I love this little print from her needle felted foxglove picture.

For relaxation,  I've been knitting a few more tiny hearts. I love this random wool...

And finally .. 

This lovely peacock butterfly was basking in my garden before it turned cold and the wild, wet, windy weather descended on us!

So that's me for this week 

I hope you are all well.

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning all.

I hope you are able to make the best of these lovely Spring days. Look at my beautiful flowers. Tulips, roses and alstroemeria - all looking perfect, fresh and lovely.

And here is my Mother's Day card from Ben and Tilly. It's Ben's artwork with just a tiny bit of tweaking by Tilly.

He knows I love my birds.

This week I have been mostly mounting and framing beautiful little needle felted seascapes by Tilly Tea Dance.

My crafty activity has been limited to a few knitted chickens. They are cute.

So that's me for this week.

Have a good week 

x x Jo 🌈 

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 Good morning all.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the Spring-like weather at the moment. We've had a few sunny days and had a lovely day at Powis Castle last week.

It's well worth a visit if you are on the Welsh border at any time.

This week I have been mostly busy with jobs for Tilly. She has worked on some beautiful needle felted pictures of The Stiperstones. These pictures always sell well at the Bog Centre which is nearby.

Any crafty activity has been limited to finishing off a few more egg covers which I am posting to Jan for her RNLI sales.

I need to get my head round some new ideas for my crafty activity. Maybe a few collage cards for birthdays etc.

So that's me for this week.

Have good week everyone one.

I hope you had a nice birthday Neet!

x x Jo 🌈 

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Good morning all.

Welcome to my sofa. My desk is full of Tilly Tea Dance artwork awaiting pricing and labelling ready for stocking up The Bog Centre, when it opens at the beginning of April.

So, I have made another little cottage bag. I love the random dyed cotton yarn that I found in my stash. It makes the perfect roof, I think.

I have also knitted a few more chicks and sheep to pop creme eggs inside.

So that's all I have to share today.

Best wishes to Neet. I hope you pop in to see what we are all up to. Love from all your WOYWW buddies 

Have a good week all 

x x Jo 🌈 

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 Good morning all 

I'm late posting because...  

I had a busy week but didn't take any photos.

My little sis insisted I found some pics asap and got my blog done! Bossy or what? 🤣

So I told her I would take a snap of my tete a tete for her..

Then I thought you should see why I've been busy 

Tilly has 5 workshops in March so here are the sets all bagged up. There are at least 14 in each bag. 

Poppies, Bees, Shropshire Hills and 2 Flower vase sets. Have a look on her website... Tilly Tea Dance if you fancy one of her workshops. They are good fun 

And lastly...

50 pairs oh hearts all bagged up ready for the hospital.

So, a busy week but fun.

Lots of love to Neet - we are all thinking of you dear friend.

Have a good week all 

x x Jo 🌈 

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Just a quick post as Annie is here and needs entertaining!

These are a few of my tiny dolls I knitted to pop in the little cottage bags. They are about 4 inches tall. I put a pair in each bag 

This big basket is going off to the Harry Johnson charity sale so I needed to get the eggs popped inside, ready to go home with Annie for the weekend.

Below are the little chickens. They are cute.

Lastly, Maxine wanted fabrics for fairy costumes for Ben's school performance. She is helping to make them so I told her not to buy fabric until she had raided my stash.

She certainly found plenty amongst that lot!

That's me for this week.

Have a good week all.

x x Jo 🌈 

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 Weird! 

I created a post and set it up as usual.

This morning it's not there - so where has it gone?

So - a quick re-write!

Good morning all!

Another wet week. I think we actually saw the sun for a few minutes on Sunday.

I've filled spare moments and watching Olympics with crafty fun...

A couple of collage cards using some poppies cut from a printed fabric and stitched to my usual background piece.

A couple of cheeky bunnies.

Another knitted cottage bag.

And lastly two little ladybird creme egg covers. 

They seem to be making themselves at home!

Have a good week.

x x Jo 🌈