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Fire Dragons / Swedish Log Candles
We are now stocking ‘Fire Dragons’ made by my brother Graham and his wife Jacky at ‘Really Rustic’. They harvest these large logs from their own sustainable forest in Wales making a wide variety of products from the wood including these Swedish log candles that they have branded as Welsh ‘Fire Dragons’. The Fire Dragon is their take…
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Pumpkin picking
My little helper came along to the pumpkin patch to help select a few nice specimens for a display.
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Alternative Wire Heart Frame Now In Stock
We took delivery of our new heart frame stock this afternoon. The ‘dumpy’ heart shape of these new wire frames make it slightly easier to binding foliage to them. It will be interesting to hear from our customers who use them for fabric crafts as to what they think of them. All feedback very welcome. They are made from…
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Rosemary Wreath
Made for the local village show which was held yesterday, this very simple wreath caught quite a bit of attention; not necessarily because of the quality of its construction but more from the intense fragrance of rosemary that permeated the hall. It was easily made; just a good pruning of our home grown rosemary plants with…
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The pumpkin season begins
Usually we start the season with a giant pumpkin which needs a pallet under it to move it but this year we start with a tiny little pumpkin that barely fills a hand. These small squashes are just the job for harvest festival arrangements and rustic autumnal displays. These pumpkins are available now from www.BigPumpkins.co.uk
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Craft shapes for decorations and labels
For many years we have stocked chunky heart shapes routed from mdf which have been very popular with schools and youth groups as they provided a cheap base for an hour or so project; sanding, painting and decorating them as a personalised hanging decoration for gifts to family members. They have also been popular with…
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New Eggs For Sale Sign
Our new ‘Eggs For Sale’ went live today. Quite pleased with it as it is all hand painted; the letters by me, the hen by my mum. I have much more respect for signwriters after doing this!
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Sunflower Down
Disaster! Came home to find the 2015 giant sunflower on its side. It makes it a bit easier to measure though… so at 12’6″ it means there was a little bit of growth since the last measurement but I suspect that was mainly in the head opening up fully. The seed head of the sunflower measures…
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Growing SRC willow for firewood
For some years now we have been growing a variety of traditional basket making willow for use as wreath bases, twig wreaths and wreath decorations with any leftovers and offcuts being used as fuel for use in wood boilers. Nothing at all goes to waste. We spotted a number of websites proclaiming hybrid willow and poplar…
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Making Log Wreath Picks
Son and heir James has found a new skill to raise funds before returning to Manchester for the final year of his Masters degree…. bundling up small willow ‘logs’ to make what florists call “picks” which are used to decorate festive wreaths and garlands. A length of green stubbing wire is wrapped around three suitably sized…