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I have been attempting the start of semi-self sufficiency with growing my own vegetables, salad, and herbs. All is going well thus far but this is the stage I always mess up. Today I bought a green house and some garden bits and bobs (soil, pots, Buddha statue...) when I say I have a garden I mean a very small space with a bush or two. But it's all I have to work with so work with it I shall. I bought some planters the other week and I have been waiting to replant my seedlings into them but we...

Hello crafters & Christmas lovers alike'Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing coloured paper cutouts onto your object in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on'   I am here to tell you that you need to get crafty with your tired old baubles! Get your Christmas box/suitcase/trunk out and have a good sort out. Throw away the bits of fluff and broken tinsel and find all the bits and pieces that you think can be made into something else and pop them in a separate box for other craft projects. Find all the baubles that should be thrown away and find the things I will list, head...

Hello all,   I have been busy making lots of lovely things for the autumnal season upon us and thought I would share them with you. I am about to embark on learning a new craft soon and am very excited... I need some funds first though, as a new craft means new equipment!! By the way, If you like anything you see please do tell your friends & remember Christmas is on its way, never too early to start buying a few things to 'put away' :)     Acorns & Conkers £15  Fairy At The End Of The Garden £25  Hippy Flowers £10 Pirates...

A mixed media art work by Rebecca Martin

Time to think outside the box. The straight lines. The neat world. But you can't be neat when you're an artist surely; well I can. That's my problem, too neat, too constricted and bound by my own mind.  This is all going to change. My boyfriend MrP bought me a book for Christmas on the suggestion of an artist friend and already I am inspired, It is a book called Wreck This Journal, which encourages you to wreck it via each page of instructions. But it is clearly a prod for artistic content. After further investigation, there are websites everywhere...