I have lots of bits and bobs to put up on my little etsy shop (etsy.com/papieretlaine) but I just cannot take decent photos so they I have not put them up. Then there is my husbands website, he is a great photographer, but his photos of his paintings need to be taken in daylight and not […]
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Noddy Booties
The last couple of months have been rather stressful, I am still not exactly sure why …. but one thing I do know for definite – I have got very little to no crafting done! I need to get my very basic shop going. This is something which I REALLY want to do, but also […]
Crochet Rabbit
I loved making this rabbit, he always seems to be able to make me smile. His arms are not stuffed, but are just tightly crocheted, and this makes them strong enough to pose rather than the limp limbs one often find on baby toys. Admittedly, after enough chewing and washing he will get a little […]
Vintage Doily
This was a really fun project to make, however, I have to admit that by the end of the last round I never wanted to crochet another picot in my life! I make alot of my stuff without patterns, so I am not great with dodgy ill-defined ones (like some of the amazing crocheter I […]
Getting started…
This is the first post on this website and it is proving strangely difficult to write… When arriving in France I really did not know what lay in store, but over the last 4 years we have rediscovered what is important to us and how we want to live. One of the side affects of […]