Crafts and Projects

  • Bridge that gap

    I've written before about building rope bridges among ...

  • Bug book hotel

    I have spent an inspiring couple of days in Scotswood ...

  • Building Bridges

    Rope Bridges These last few months have seen an increase ...

  • Char flowers

    There is a really fascinating process you can do with ...

  • Coppice birds

    Last year I learnt to make these little wooden birds ...

  • Experiments with animation

    I’ve been mulling over in my mind whether I should ...

  • Follow a trail through the woods

    I remember back to when I first started working with ...

  • Hapa Zome (beating up leaves with hammers)

    This is a wonderful creative technique that I often ...

  • Making a Rope Ladder

      A video tutorial how to make a rope ladder. ...

  • Nature transforms an egg…..or how to make green eggs

    This is one of those things that I have been wanting ...

  • Oak Apple Ink

    There is something about playing in the woods, exploring, ...

  • One idea sparks another idea, which sparks another idea….

    One of the elements I find really rewarding about ...

  • Only made from wood; a daily advent of festive winter crafts part 1

    I have set myself a creative challenge over on my ...

  • Pewter

    Here's a lovely thing to do over the fire. I did a ...

  • Shrunken apple heads

    In my early twenties I used to go to Oxford once a ...

  • Skulk of foxes- a whittling project.

    I was really inspired recently by a great whittling ...

  • Sweet little alder bee craft

    I was asked to bring something to share at my recent ...

  • The adventurer’s essentials

    Every year we had make most of our Christmas gifts. ...

  • The game of Kubb

    With Spring on the way and more time on our hands ...

  • The popcorn maker is dead! Long live the popcorn maker!

    I took my fire top popcorn maker with me to the woods ...

  • Things on sticks that aren’t marshmallows.

    I got tired of marshmallows a while back but having ...

  • What draws on wood?

    What draws on wood? Anyone who has had to bear witness ...

  • Wood cookies swinging in the trees make romantic braids…

    Occasionally I see a craft technique and think to ...

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