The Craft Shop, Retford Nottinghamshire

Happy Valentines

Diane — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:50:18 +0000

Still trying to get to grips with updating the website, for every update there are three days of trying and any number of emials and texts for assistance. However, I wanted to show you some of the things I have been playing with recently and to let you know that I have started to update the workshop calender, so keep looking at it for future workshops.

He is just a knitted rectangle

Last week someone came in with a pattern for a tea cosy, looking for appropriate wool. When she had left I felt inspired to make my own using some wool in the sale. It was going to be a chicken but as you can see it didn’t turn out that way.

"isn't it romantic"

I was also asked to run a private workshop for a group of ladies and I was inspired by some small canvases I saw in a local shop. They were easy to make using gesso and paint, lace, buttons, napkins and papers. They all turned out different and very lovely.

Happy Valentines x

Here is something else I found – spot the mistake

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

Diane — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:22:07 +0000

Thank you to all our customers and workshop attendees this year and hope to see you for many more interesting workshops next year. The workshop list should be going up soon but if there is anything not on the list that you would like to try then just give me a call at the shop.

Here are a few items from the Christmas workshops to tempt your tastebuds.

Christmas in October

Diane — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:53:42 +0000

It was the first christmas craft workshop today and despite the warm and sunny weather we had appropriate seasonal fun. (I stopped short of playing carols, we had no room left after lunch to eat the mince pies and everyone was driving so the mulled wine didn’t get drunk)

I gave everyone a choice of different items to they all chose somethng different.

: Everyone hard at work

Yvonnes' christmas towelsViv's advent calender (she's shy)Ann's wreath and Elisha's cone

The Craft Shop gets a Blog

Diane — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:00:57 +0000

This is the blog for the Craft shop, where I’ll show you my recent creations at the shop, and other things of interest.