This is hardly rocket science (okay that pun was totally unintentional). But my Facebook friends have loved and shared my picture so I thought I’d post a quick blog. I had the task of making salad for the office bring and share (potluck) Christmas lunch. I was a bit disappointed as I thought it was…
When we first came to our parish 9 years ago the parents in the church used to run the Nativity. After seeing their stress in rehearsing, getting the right kids in the right places and having a microphone anywhere near the actors we asked if they would like to hand it over. If I never…
Some years ago I was at a conference where one of the speakers didn’t show up – instead we shared ideas and expertise of our own. I sat and politely listened to a colleague talking about using puppets in all age worship. I thought he was brilliant but had no plans to ever follow him.…
It’s home decor month on the stash-busting Facebook group I’m part of and, truthfully, it’s the first time it is really about stash busting for me. My sewing life has been mostly home decor for years, it is only in the last year I’ve been dressmaking. I’ve accumulated a nice stash of garment fabrics but…
I’m really excited to be blogging as part of the sew long summer tour. I thought I’d challenge myself and do something really different. I fell in love with the decades of style butterfly blouse a while ago so this was the perfect moment. 1930s Butterfly Blouse I also found this beautiful sheer blue grey fabric at…
I made this bouquet for a friend at work who is having twins, my colleagues and I wanted to give her a gift when she left to go on maternity leave. I made all the elements from ideas I found online (the links are all below). But I love the ideas you see of presenting baby…
There are so many lovely things you can do with the symbol of flames for the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. I’ve been desperate for Pentecost to come ever since I thought of this. Usually if I’m doing something visual in worship it is an interactive idea, but this was just to look great. Though having…
I know that having a craft/sewing room is an incredible privilege. But oh my goodness it is one I’ve got used to! Right now The Pumpkin Room looks like this: Builders are coming tomorrow to start on at least 2 months of work fixing internal subsidence damage. With all the stuff gone you can see…
This was my favourite prayer station in the set. So often calling invites introspection, which is fine, but this looks out into the world for what is needed and where we can contribute best. The idea is that you look through the pile of mini maps and let yourself be drawn to one. That then…
This was our opening prayer station in this batch I’m posting here. As people started to fill it in we started to see stories intertwine. You will need Sticky backed plastic blackboard available from Amazon here. Chalk and I used chalk pens for the lines Card footprints for the ‘next steps’ I used these but they vary in…
This prayer station couldn’t be more simple, it’s really just a picture to look at. I mounted the poster on foam board and used a simple easel to stand it up. The guidance for participants is in the first picture. The poster is a painting by Sieger Koder and his art is amazing,…
This is a prayer station idea which has been really meaningful for people at our young women’s vocation event. It also looks really lovely as it fills up with scrolls. The idea is that we write on the paper something which we know we need to give over to God. The neck of the bottle…
Just a short post to share an idea. My idea is that you would pass the pebbles round and people would take one. Then when they introduce themselves everyone answers a different question instead of the same one. You will need: Glass Pebbles like these in the link, at least 25mm wide, bigger than the standard…
Proper quilters will want to avert their eyes! But I wanted the quilted effect and the strength of the combined fabric so I did a bit of speed quilting. I wanted to make lots of seats the same. I aimed for 15 but ran out of time, I made 9 this way. I’m writing it…
I can’t claim to have thought of either elements of this idea, that is wallpapering steps or using maps as wallpaper (my sister in law introduced me to that one). But I thought it was worth posting because I haven’t seen anyone else put the two ideas together. It took a little bit of thinking…
The Pumpkin Room 