Homemade Crafts

Friendship Bracelets

by | 4th March 2018

Search the internet for the phrase ‘friendship bracelets’ and you get many different bracelets designed using different materials (silver, beads, yarn etc). For me though, I grew up in an era where the craze was to create bracelets using yarn. My nan used to knit and grandad used to make latch hook rugs, so I […]

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The Art of Crochet

by | 4th March 2018

Crochet is a wonderful and slightly addictive craft that creates materials using a wide variety of thread and one crochet hook (often mistaken for knitting, that uses two needles). Even Queen Victoria crocheted, which included eight handcrafted scarves which she presented to eight outstanding men that were in the Second Boer War. I believe some […]

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A Beekeeper

by | 4th March 2018

In 2016, I joined the Longford bee keepers’ association and what started out as a way to meet new people and a vague intention to keep bees finally saw me take the plunge and come into possession of a new colony that quickly went from strength to strength, eventually providing me with six jars of […]

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