CHICKENS FOR SALE: ALL PROCEEDS TO THE PAUL SARTORI FOUNDATION

We have had a call from Steve and Claire Morgan. They have a chicken farm with over 2000 free range hens. Due to changeover in their sheds they need to remove 150 hens. Steve and Claire are kindly offering to sell their hens for a donation which will be given to the Paul Sartori Foundation.

Steve and Claire live near Crundale, Haverfordwest and the hens need to be collected over the next 36 hours. To find out more please call Steve on 07970380924 or Claire on 07813626022 direct.

Please share this with all of your Pembrokeshire contacts

Not entirely sure when the 36 hours is up...maybe by the end of 14th May

paper decorations #3 vintage decorations with a family history

from my childhood and beyond. crepe paper sewn with a gather, pull out from centre and a beautiful twist of paper garland. roll on right hand side, with tail, two colour
(the strip is half one & half another fading through different colours...) and made by my grandmother before I was born - 1950's. the rest were made by my mother when I was a baby  - early 60's and by my brother when we were early teens - mid to late 70's and replacements needed!

some old stuff & thrifty stuff in THIS SET OF IMAGES amongst the more new stuff

including:

Making: recycling, upcycling, thrift #1

as requested...how I made the paper decorations in the previous post...



1 sheet from Country Living, a pair of scissors, a stapler and some glue [UHU is my favourite].
Cut the sheet into three. Three different widths make three different sizes.



Concertina fold the strips. Sometimes a there's a little bit too much, just trim it off. It's better if it is all like a series of Ms that is start and finish down [well or both up like W]

Then fold each concertina neatly in half. Firmly staple along the crease - sometimes it doesn't go right through, I just turn it over and go in from the other side.













Then you glue the two bits together to make a half moon, then open out and stick the other sides together...
Then you might want to stick shiny things, buttons or glitter into the middle - even a little disc of coloured paper.

Now if you want to make a long hanging you need to join them up. You can either make a little stitch into mddle of one and tie a knot and join to the next, then repeat...then thread a loop through to hang it or you can take one thread through - it's quite fiddly getting it through the middle.

paper: recycling, upcycling, thrift #1

some dangling fans - medallions - discs - flowers. They needn't just be for Christmas...
take one page of a magazine, preferably with good all over colour both sides [can be different colours on each side]. Cut three stripes vertically - if you make them different widths you get different sizes...  Concertina them up - if a bit left over at end trim off. Fold carefully in half and get a good crease. Staple arcos this centre crease. You will need to give a good push with stapler on a solid surface! Fan out each side [one at a time] and stick together. I had some little plastic gems and stuck them into the centre. You could use a disc of coloured paper, or nothing.
Then I sew through them [it it is a hard push through the centre of the central disc]. I use a new thread at the top to hang them up.



a look at both sides

one recipe one spanish shopping list

I need to learn more HTML. Formatting on Blogger is useless......

20 plus years is a long time on a holiday island

I have been retaking images of the island from a guide book dated 1989, but I thiink some  of the photos are earlier as one image in the book is a postcard I bought in about 1980/1

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I've set up an etsy account and I've made a new blog "Flo's Incredible How Stuff" that will support my selling there - and on ebay

IT'S HERE