It’s taken a while, but I’ve done it, a brand new felt pattern has been added to the What Jenny Did Next shop! Inspired by letter-writing, keeping-in-touch the slow-living kinda way, and Victorian Valentine cards and romantic tokens, this felt heart features a message-carrying dove and includes a pocket for tokens, heartfelt messages, or even… Continue reading Send a Heartfelt Message!
To celebrate the weekend and the fact that I had finally managed to source cocoa powder, I made some very simple chocolate cookies. For this, I turned to another tried and tested resource; the BBC Good Food website. The recipe said to include chocolate chips but, as I didn’t have any, I had to do… Continue reading Days 81 -83 Cookies and Travel Pics
For some reason I had a craving for a nice Cornish Pasty. It seems to be a habit now that I always really want something that wasn’t in the last food shop delivery!!! If I order Cornish Pasties as a treat in next week’s shop, you can guarantee that I will fancy a pizza instead.… Continue reading Day 79 – 80 Cornish Pasties and Hippo Photo Shoot
After releasing my latest embroidered decoration – a cute little Hippo – Tuesday was a day of celebration and relaxing! Monday had been a long day doing a full day of work, followed by a late night to get the shop updated, so Tuesday was much more chilled out: hanging out with family (remotely) in… Continue reading Day 78 – Hippo celebrations!
Guess what everyone? It’s the first of June and I’m launching my second pattern in my Etsy shop now! Yay! This pattern is the first of, what I hope to be, a cheerful little series of patterns, and, as you may have guessed from the post title, is a Hippopotamus! A lovely embroidered felt Hippopotamus… Continue reading Days 71-77 Hippopotami!
The past few days have been all about the animals! Our village has been creating a zoo trail around the village for kids and families to go around and see different animals and learn things about them. If you read my last couple of posts, you’ll know that we have made a tiger, and here… Continue reading Days 65-70 A Makeshift Zoo
Thanks to the power of to-do lists, I managed to make Monday a productive one! Work went ok, though the day was largely broken up with meetings. And afterwards, though my brain was in the usual post-work slump, I managed to shake it off, stop myself from going immediately to the sofa, and took my… Continue reading Day 63 – Back on track
After a flurry of gardening activity yesterday, today I felt rubbish and weary again! So I had an extremely satisfying Sunday of doing pretty much nothing! We couch-potatoed in front of Youtube and Netflix for most of the day. When the mood took us, we did a little bit of pottering in the garden, determined… Continue reading Day 62 – Tiger Tiger…
Hi all, I know I’ve skipped a day, I’ll get back to it later, because I’m writing this on VE Day and I wanted to write about how I made cheerful red, white, and blue bunting! I gathered and cut out red, white, and blue triangles from bits and pieces from my fabric stash. To… Continue reading Day 52 -Hanging out the bunting!
It’s been a busy couple of days, so I haven’t done that much crafting or cooking in the evenings. But what I have been doing is thinking of ways to celebrate Friday. In the UK, Friday is going to be a National ‘Bank’ Holiday. There’s usually a national holiday at the beginning of May, but… Continue reading Days 49 & 50: Preparing for VE Day
what jenny did next... 