Tyddyn Bryn

Building work

• From Craft Table to Sheepfold: The Evolution of My Yarn Business

  

  What began in 2007 as a creative outlet for my out-of-control making habits—selling handmades under the name Elliefants Delights at markets in Abergavenny, Cardiff, and Newport—has grown into a full-time, slow-living, wool-growing life. From writing my first knitting patterns in 2009 to dyeing yarn over a wood fire, buying a Welsh hill farm in 2014,…

  Ellie

  July 22, 2025

  animals, Building work, Craftiness, Wanderings, Working the land

  building work, evolution, gardening, history, knitting, self sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, wool, yarn

• Smallholding Sunday

  

  A goal setting post for the smallholding this year

  Ellie

  January 17, 2021

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Sustainability, The tin hut, Wanderings, Woodland, Working the land

  building work, goals, hedge cutters, hedge laying, hedge restoring, hedgerows, hedges, plans, smallholder, smallholders, smallholding, smallholding life, Woodland

• Smallholding update!

  

  Living the dream!!! So many people say this to us!! And it always makes me laugh a little, yes in so very many ways we are living the dream, but I really don’t think a lot of people realise how much hard work the dream is!! Take this week for example!! All the rain and…

  Ellie

  November 15, 2020

  animals, Building work, News, Plans, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  building, building work, clearing, fields, flooding, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Livestock, ponies, sheep, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, water, weeds, willow

• What’s doing??

  We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…

  Ellie

  June 3, 2020

  animals, Building work, Food and drink, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, building work, cordial, digging, elderflower, fields, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, horses, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, ponies, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, Small field, smallholding, vegetables, water, weed wars, weeds, wine, Yard

• Weekend waffle

  A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live on the YouTube channel A withybed built and you can see what we have be up to in the Polytunnel!! It’s all rather exciting!! 😁

  Ellie

  February 10, 2019

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  building work, fruit, garden, gardening, hedges, plants, Podcast, smallholding, vegetables, views, willow, Woodland, woodlands, woodwork

• Weekend waffle

  A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live here A bit of tree planting, the starts of a Japanese inspired garden, snow and a puppy!!

  Ellie

  February 2, 2019

  Building work, Garden, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, gardening, Japanese garden, orchard field, plants, rocks, rubble, smallholding, stream, tin hut, trees, Waterways, willow, Yard

• Weekend waffle

  So summation Saturday and Sunday wasn’t working for me as a title for the weekend chat/catch up vlogs…. it didn’t sit right…. So I was up feeding the smallest boy a few nights ago and a Title came to me for these vlogs!! Weekend waffle!!! Hurrah!!! Any way the next instalment is up on the…

  Ellie

  January 19, 2019

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, demolition, digger, Firewood, garden, gardening, logs, path, plants, Podcast, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, smallholding, tin hut, trees, willow

• Summation Saturday

  The first Summation Saturday or Sunday vlog is up!! And it’s DOMINATED by the boys and the tin hut!!! Yikes!!! It’s all a bit real now!!!

  Ellie

  January 7, 2019

  Building work, The tin hut

  building work, demolishing, demolition, to n hut

• Goodbye 2018… hello 2019

  So I have made a couple of vlogs rounding up 2018 And a vlog about plans for 2019!!

  Ellie

  January 6, 2019

  Books, Building work, Craftiness, Fruit and vegetables, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, The tin hut

  building, building work, crafting, crochet, Etsy, forest school, forestschool, gardening, knitting, Podcast, self sufficiency, Sewing, smallholding, Spinning, tin hut, vegetables, Weaving

• Chicken happenings!!

  So way back on the first of March our Bresse chickens hatched out and they lived in the same cage inside as chicks as sun and Dai had lived in when they were small… but there were more of them and they grew a wee bit faster…. so they moved into a secondary cage for…

  Ellie

  May 23, 2018

  Building work, Livestock, Working the land

  chicken, chickens, coop, homestead, homesteading, housing, Livestock, smallholder, smallholding