Making winter in Wales
I love the idea of making things in winter so I joined the Making Winter bloghop over at Thrifty Household. There are some seriously talented people doing some very exciting things. I am not an artist or a real craftsperson but I have decided to be less apologetic about my own making and doing and just to enjoy it, in all its glorious amateurism! I had a huge chunk of my life when working and family sucked up all my time and energy and the two constants which I somehow carved out time for were cooking and gardening. Sewing and knitting and making things disappeared from view. Now when I am rushing from pillar to post and wondering what happened to my wish for a simpler life, I need to remind myself that I have got some time back. In the last year or two I have returned to the skills I learnt in my childhood from my grandmothers and practised in adolescence in New Zealand where clothes were expensive to buy and everyone made things. I ra...