by kindlinglily | Jun 20, 2015 | Crafts and Projects, Forest School
I was really inspired recently by a great whittling project. So much so I’ve been making these all week! I have to pass thanks to Carolin and Deni of birds in the woods. Carolin showed me this lovely whittling project and the foxes made by her young daughter....
by kindlinglily | Oct 18, 2014 | Crafts and Projects
Here’s a lovely thing to do over the fire. I did a bit of metal casting when I studied metalwork in my teens and it feels like alchemy every time you cast metal. Pewter is a metal that has a low enough melting point to melt over an ordinary fire. Which just adds...
by kindlinglily | Jun 17, 2014 | Crafts and Projects, Forest School
Occasionally I see a craft technique and think to myself “I can’t wait to take that to the woods!” So it was when I attended a textile workshop with Larry Schmidt at the North House Folk School. He specialises in traditional Scandinavian textile...
by kindlinglily | Jun 13, 2014 | Crafts and Projects
I have spent an inspiring couple of days in Scotswood Natural Community Garden. It’s a stunning place on so many levels; just two to three acres in very urban part of Newcastle, thriving with trees, flowers, birds, insects, foxes, ponds and people. The garden is...
by kindlinglily | May 21, 2014 | Crafts and Projects, Forest School
There is a really fascinating process you can do with fire that is basically making charcoal but without any wood… The process of making charcoal is to get something that is carbon based; so pretty much everything that was once alive, heat it up really hot...
