Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: crafts

  • Home Grown Crafts

        Last summer, which was the season it was so hot none of my vegetables even produced, I did make one good harvest– gourds! Evidently these hardy dipping gourds weren’t deterred by the scorching temperatures and grew up the fence, and then over it, making perfect green gourds wherever it could.    When the…

  • A Birthday in Oz

    Well, this weekend my Little Miss turned five and we celebrated in Wizard of Oz style. It was a rather handmade affair, and when the bakery couldn’t find the Wizard of Oz characters to go on the cake I’d wanted to order, I just decided to bake a few treats (some ‘yellow brick road’ lemon…

  • How To: Vintage Photo Christmas Wreath

    Hello there friends and a happy 1st Sunday of Advent to you! Around here we are tentatively beginning this long season of celebration and traditions, something I’ve been looking forward to since the last Christmas season. This year I decided I needed to make a nice Christmas wreath for the mantle, although most of ones…