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

Busy in the Garden

So much to do! Not just stitches in the Snow Queen's Garden to make, but goodies in the garden to dig and eat, and weed and water, and fertilise and talk to... while I am busy finishing all those UFO's lying around (now up to 5 crimson owls, 2 tree brooches, 1 baby baushka... 6 grey owls ... nearly), there are yummy potatoes to dig up.

Ended up with 8 kg of Kennebec..... just waiting on the rest, Nicola's Caranberry Reds, King Edward, Dutch Cream, Tasman, Pink Eyes. Who knew there could be so many varieties?

                       And then there are the onions. Really pleased with this one. It looks so - oniony

Welcome to all you lovely folk who have just joined, possibly the slowest, blog. There will be some lovelies coming out soon. If you could see the state of my work desk, bits of felt, owls, birds.... a new girl, with a new face you have NEVER seen before.... Mandy - hooks on the way soon. Just found the wire I need, under a pile of felt, Sarah thanks for the lovely recent blog. Thank you Ms Tiff for the comment.  And sweet dreams to you all.  SQ x

Shhhh - Don't wake the Doves