Leap of faith in a leap year

 Well this is it... tomorrow is the day to officially open the etsy store. Seemed like an auspicious date to it. What better a date to take a leap of faith, than 29th Feb. So here it nearly goes. Heart in my mouth, weak at the knees and butterflies in the belly. Wish me luck, I'm going to jump. Are you coming too?

HeartFelt Pendants in a Rainbow of colours, off to etsy

 http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSnowQueensGarden?ref=si_shop.

Hope you can stop by. SQ x

Getting Woolley

Thank goodness for a warm day this week and a chance to wash some more wool. It starts off as the picture on the left, washed in tank water, dried, then carded.. to generally end up looking like the picture on the right. Because I use tank water, my little dog loves helping. Nothing better than chasing the water out of the tank hose and rolling in all the stinky stuff coming off the fleece. Means the house smells of wet wool and wet dog. What a great combination!

Raw Fleece from local sheep

Washed and carded fleece

Haven't convinced the children that helping is  a great way to spend quality time with me... didn't even work when I offered bonus pocket money. But it does mean I have loads more fleece ready to create more of these..

HeartFelt Pendants

NeedleFelt Hedgehogs

Preparing loads of needlefelt and hand embroidered pendants in a rainbow of colour combinations and a woodland of hedgehogs for the etsy store. Now, if I can just give up the sleep....

SQ x