Month: December 2015

  • Harvesting Basket Making Willow

    Having packed away the fresh wreath making ‘production line’ for another year our next job is to get our home grown willow rods cut and into storage for processing as willow whip tips for floristry, straight sticks for crafts and little log bundles for picks to decorate next year’s wreaths. These items are sold all…

  • Making a Rustic Oak Bed

    Making a rustic oak bed – May ‘14 It started, as is so often the case, with a picture clipped from some designer home magazine or other. Accompanied with, of course, the inevitable ponderous question: “Couldn’t you make one of those?” This time it was a bed, with big slabs of sawn log for the headboard,…