Creative Welsh Holidays... in a 200yr old cottage, making things every day !

Well this year Im so happy to offer a holiday in wales for a week, making your very own , handmade Christmas. You will also be fed locally produced organic food. Youll get to do workshops every day of the week and walk to the sea too !

 For  a very long time now its been my dream to be able to offer creative holidays, and especially a holiday where you can make youre very own,handmade Christmas.

The cottage is set along the Ceredigion coastline of Wales . It is over 200 yrs old and has been in the same family for a very long time. Its absolutely beautiful.  There are 4 places available on each week. You will be waited on by yours truly, I will be doing all the cooking . A local organic farm, just down the road, will deliver fresh produce to me daily. But all dietery requirements can be met, just let me know before you book.

As well as daily walks to the sea and woodland, you will make your very own handmade Christmas.

 You will make a snowman, a santa, a tree angel too !

You will print your very own xmas cards, make your own crackers, and some wrapping paper !

 We will forage by the beach and woodland and make a garland,a wreath and tree decorations.
You will also make stockings, all materials will be provided .

All in all, it will be a very fun and happy week and that I can guarantee. Plus you will go home with your handmade Christmas and lots of happy memories.

The cost per person per week is 495 pounds, the dates available are weeks beginning October the 12th, October 26th, November 23rd and lastly a very Christmassy December 7th.

Please feel free to email me on pookashop@yahoo.com with your enquiries.

I really look forwards to seeing you

XXX

Mobile Puppet Theatre update

Although it may seem I have gone quiet with everything, fear not as behind the scenes I am always frantically busy.

Despite a set back of our puppet theatre being stolen, lol. I am back on track with it , with a replacement being built, and hopefully it will all be ready for Xmas this year and be able to support some charities, by raising money.

As you can see above, the love of my life, Misty, is poised and ready for action !!

She will pull it around and no doubt get more attention than any of my puppets.

I look forwards to showing you more about the theatre very soon.

Have a wonderful day.

xxx

The Welsh doll series

Here we have a selection of photos of the latest welsh dolls in a series I am making,

These ones all have hats, boots and shawls, and are 15 inches high.

Although extremely time consuming, I really enjoy making them .

I source all the fabrics in Wales, most of it comes from a local woollen mill, where they still make the fabric today. The other pieces are vintage and antique bits, that I buy as and when I find them .

I am currently working on some very large dolls, which do seem to be much easier to make, purely because the scale is much larger.

All are now listed in the Etsy shop.

Happy Dollmaking !!

XXX

Hi Everyone, 

I just wanted to let you all know that Im back on blogger and Etsy.

I have missed it.

Ive basically been doing a lot of workshops and physical selling at shops etc, but now feel its time to do more online sales again, which allow me quality time in the studio creating. And also time to do my blogg.

This blogg has been running for years now, so I don't want to let it slip, so I hereby promise to give regular posts and updates from now on ,

Heres a new line I created, the welsh dolls.

I hope you enjoy looking at the photos, as much as I have enjoyed creating this range of dolls.

lots of love to all and I look forwards to reading all your bloggs too

xxx

Heres the new Etsy shop link below, which has a few things listed, if you want a look xxx

etsy.com/uk/shop/DeborahDarlingArtist

My eldest daughter at Shakespeares garden

Check out @ShakespeareBT’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShakespeareBT/status/1124214642312712192?s=09

Black bird , Tash Sultana, accoustic version.

https://youtu.be/DnGPxmxVTuE

Blowing out the cobwebs

It's been a busy month so this morning was all about de stressing and blowing out those cob webs.

So I took Bunny , my salty old sea dog on a four hour walk , she did a lot of swimming in the sea and it was surprisingly warm for this time of year.

It's a good time to think and plan before 2019 arrives. So I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful happy New year filled with joy

XxxX

Stitches

2019 will see a lot more needlecraft and stitcheries to accompany my dolls .

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year to everyone , here's to a happy and very creative 2019 for us all xxxx

Hartley Hare Puppet

Imagine my delight when I was asked to make a Hartley Hare Puppet from the 1960s.

I really enjoyed making and designing this one, I made him rather big, with jointed arms and legs that swing freely, causing more animated movement.

A large puppet with a lot of hand sewing.

I hope the recipient loves it, as it's been commissioned as a Christmas present.

I hope you are all on track for Christmas, I have a lot of catching up to do :)

XXX

Making for Christmas..

It's always a busy time of year for us makers , but I have really enjoyed this year's Christmas makes, here's some of my latest.

Keep cosy folks xxx

Santa is coming.....

Well Santa is coming ....

A new journey begins...

Many Years ago I used to paint wagons, so I thought I would go back to my roots and start again.

Here's the first one, I will update with photos of how it's coming along inside and out.

Keep cosy folks, the nights are drawing in and its getting cooler.

Xxx

Folk art

A new exclusive range and display of my handmade folk art work will be coming to Narberth in Wales.

You will be able to see and buy my work from them. This allows me time to concentrate on my other work.

It will be available from Bazaar Vintage and Antique , they will also be doing mail order, so check them out online.

Work will be available from the 1st of September.

Happy Summer Holidays everyone !

XxX

Bees....

I had a lovely commission to, make a huge Bee, and here's what I came up with , it was fun and I really love bees. So quite a pleasure.

Working on my dawgs.....

Still clearing the commission work but looking forwards to concentrating on these fellows :)

I hope you are doing something that makes you happy too !

XxX

Needlefelting workshop

Thank you to everyone who attended my needlefelting workshop , it's my first this year , bless you xxx

Latest commission...mushrooms

Here's the latest commission, it was for some fabric embroidered mushrooms, and I finished them off with a glass dome.

I really enjoyed making them, I may well make some for the online shop soon,

I hope you are all having a great weekend.

Xxx

Beautiful florists

Found this amazing shop in Carmarthen the other day, take a look inside dear friends........

Fabric printing workshop

Another interesting workshop with students printing onto fabric , using limo blocks they had designed and printed themselves.
Some really great work.
Looking forwards to teaching more next month, it's Christmas countdown, I hope you are having fun !
Xxx