Belated happy new year from Clasheen! It's been a crazy couple of months since I last posted here. A bad cold over the new year period has meant that's it's taken me until now to fully catch up with everything but an upgraded broadband service means...
Congratulations Mary Shirley, Rowena Reid and Linda Murphy, you have all won a pair of tickets to visit the Dublin Knitting & Stitching Show! Because the physical ones haven't actually arrived the organisers will have your tickets ready for you to collect on either Thursday,...
That time of year has returned at last, next weekend sees the return of the Knitting & Stitching Show in the RDS, Dublin, from October 30th – November 2nd. More than 25,000 visitors are expected to attend the show, which will feature a unique combination of...
I'd like to extend an invitation to everyone within striking distance of Clasheen, please come along on the afternoon of Saturday 4th October and help celebrate FeltUnited Day 2014 in style. My plan is for us to felt a collaborative wall hanging, swap tips and...
Although I don't have a store devoted to selling my work online please don't hesitate to contact me if you've seen a piece you like at a show or anywhere here on the web! I'll happily package gifts and post worldwide. Here's a picture of...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8KnXSHiAwM&w=560&h=315] Thanks to Carlow Enterprise Board for the opportunity to film a short video explaining what I do to the world!...
I've had a late booking for a felt flower workshop tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 20th) between 2 and approx 4pm at Duckett's Grove. The cost is €25 per person including all materials and participants can expect to make three beautiful flowers each to take home with...
Apologies that I haven't managed another blog post this week. I'm frantically trying to move furniture (in preparation for mum's house move), finish the large wall hanging with the Gaelscoil and will be felting with a new group of women tomorrow, I'll be back to...
A very brief post today...
Happy New Year! It's evening time here in Ireland, unfortunately my cold appears to have got a little worse but I just wanted to check in and wish everyone the very best for 2013!!!...
I'm just taking a few days to refresh and recharge my batteries, I'll be back blogging properly in a couple of days!...
I had a hard time of it trying to keep my fingers and hands warm at Duckett's Grove this weekend. Felting on Saturday morning really was freezing, I've only got one electric heater (which is very expensive to run) included in the studio so I...
I tried out a couple of new display ideas at Borris Food and Craft market this morning based on some of the recent research I've been doing. Definitely having a well stocked stand has made a difference, it's almost too full compared to my usual...
My busy bank holiday long weekend ended yesterday night and today I was back in the thick of things with the second session in another series of felting workshops with Borris Active Retirement. The weather's been much colder here over the last few days too...
The last few weeks have been interesting and fruitful, I finally feel that I've established a sustainable routine and am starting to both felt a lot more and feel a bit more creative. It's always difficult when you work both for yourself and from home,...
Blog playing silly games, lost everything that I'd written. I'm having an exciting but busy weekend teaching and working from Duckett's Grove, I'll post from the computer tonight or first thing tomorrow. ...
It's been action packed and fun here today! Annette is leaving in the morning to catch 4 ferries and 5 trains home to her little Danish island and as a result we were out and about until just about 5 minutes ago. In addition to...
I'm having a wonderful time participating in Dagmar Binder's 6 day masterclass in Scotland. It's such a pleasure to learn new techniques from such an inspirational felter, the other participants are pretty cool too!!! I'm going to try and upload some pics here later if...
I'm going to divide up our marvellous residential felting experience in Portugal into several blog posts, there's a lot to report and many photos to download from my camera so I'll try to select some descriptive ones to post here as well as give you...
Our amazing workshop in Portugal drew to a close last Friday evening, participants started to head home and by the time Alan arrived at lunch on Saturday most people were well on their way to their final destinations. I still don't have any proper Internet...
Our week long residential felting workshop at magical Dominio Vale do Mondego has almost drawn to a close. Internet connection is still sketchy here in this part of Portugal but I have managed to upload more pictures to facebook, enjoy!...
It's a beautiful day here in Portugal, I'm just sneaking a quick minute to upload a few pictures from our wonderful residential felting workshop to Facebook. Sorry there are no titles yet and only a few pics, more to follow but for now you can...
I'm just grabbing a minute at the end of a very busy but satisfying second day of our residential workshop at Dominio Vale do Mondego to jot this post, the atmosphere is one of fun, friends, food and felt! Internet connection is a little sketchy...
Today I've been nuno felting again using more of the Salvation Army and Goodwill silk garments that I mentioned in yesterday's post. Unfortunately I don't have enough hours in the day to write individual replies to all the comments I get so thanks a million...
