Tracing Rainbows

Three years ago I published a tutorial for Nativity Costumes. This has got itself onto Pinterest and generated many hits. I have had comment...

…or ‘shut a door’ ? Last week I was delivering the Churches Together Village Christmas Cards, when I spotted a skip outside one house with...

I mentioned this the other week and people asked for more details. In 1999, I realised I had loads of clippings, postcards, and bits and pi...

As the Almond family eats up the Christmas cake, Joseph wonders what he did wrong, and Mary is anxious as the Kings crowd in ever closer. Ba...

“A week is a long time in politics” said Harold Wilson half a century ago. Well, a week is a long time in this house in the run up to Christ...

My third Willow Tree Angel is one I received as a gift from my sister in law Marion – The Angel of Caring Her tagline is “Always the...

Jane aka Froogs/Frugal Queen shared this one and asked us to pass it on. It’s by a lovely young singer/songwriter, Claire Bruff , from the ...

The Saltmine Theatre Team arrived yesterday at 8.30am and set up in the chapel. All this scenery and equipment from one white van! I lo...

One of my work colleagues is taking her young grand-daughter to the Panto. “I wish I could go dressed as a princess” said the child [who is ...

Thank you Adam, my work colleague and amazing dance partner! PS I shall not be wearing this outfit to Church on Christmas Morning!

…which you probably don’t, it being barely a fortnight to Christmas Day. But I thought I would share this little pattern, which came from th...

You WILL get there, Christmas will happen, even if you don’t get everything prepared quite as thoroughly as Martha Stewart** would. Check ...

Having posted about this dessert last week, I actually made one for the weekend. Here it is on Saturday morning, having been weighted down a...

Saw this in Leicester yesterday It wasn’t true!

Last Tuesday morning [25th] I started working with a couple of new teenage pupils, and they learned to thread up a machine and sew a straigh...

Which angel is always late? Whose halo is never straight? Who’s still snoring at half past eight? Whoops-A-Daisy Angel! Th...