Tyddyn Bryn

Building work

• Mini digger hired!! Check!!

  So James decided to hire a mini digger this week…. and has been out in it all day every day working hard to create better waterways, raised beds, scrape the barns, flatten play areas…. etc etc!! Busy times!! Someone else rather liked the digger too!!! And very quickly figured out whilst sat on Daddy’s lap…

  Ellie

  March 16, 2018

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Wanderings, Working the land

  barn, building, building work, clearing, Drainage, flooding, gardening, path, slurry pit, smallholding, stream, veg garden, water, Yard

• Busy weeks!!

  So the past two weeks have been filled with visitors and LOTS of outside work….. not much time for crafting except in between visitors and knitting of an evening!! We started with a few days with my sister and niece and nephew!! Someone was very pleased with his visitors!! And we had wall building round…

  Ellie

  February 25, 2018

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

  fruit, fruit cage, garden, hedgerows, hedges, market gardening, path, plants, self sufficiency, slurry pit, smallholding, wood, woodwork

• The barn circa 1960!!

  So this was our old barn in an old aerial photo!!!! The big Agri barns aren’t there, neither is the tin hut but there are lots of smaller barns and the land behind the barns is so much flatter looking, without the slurry pit and the spoil heaps which have sculpted themselves into our garden…

  Ellie

  January 5, 2018

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

  barns, historical photos, history

• The way it was!!!

  Our lovely neighbour came up to visit on Sunday and brought up some photos of our barn that the previous owner took before any renovations started!!! Wanna see???? It takes your breathe away how derelict it was!!!! Makes a heck of a difference to when we bought it as a shell…. And to now…. A…

  Ellie

  December 19, 2017

  Building work

  barn, building, building work, original building

• Crafty happenings

  Busy times again here as always it seems but now the workshop is nigh on finished and now functional!!!!!  So I decided to crack on with a few jobs I’ve been planning for a while….. Firstly, I made something to occupy the small human whilst we are in the work shop and to stop him…

  Ellie

  November 13, 2017

  Building work, Craftiness, Forest schools, Woodwork

  barn, dolls house, name signs, toddler toys, woodwork, work bench

• Work around the Holding

  So since we are here now every day….. We have started doing some bits around the place other than he workshop and the house! Planting some bulbs for some spring colour about the place….. Crocuses, tulips and Daffodils…. Mowing the grass …. so we can get at the bed we planted and weed the heck…

  Ellie

  October 23, 2017

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Plans, Working the land

  box, bulbs, composters, forsythia, fruit cage, hedge, mowing, muck, planting, slurry pit, spring colour

• Workshop Building

  Recently we have been working hard on getting the area in the first barn behind the house turned into a workshop for all the tools and for doing some of the jobs we need to get done around the place….. including me making a heap of toys for Sir and for future Forest School plans…

  Ellie

  October 21, 2017

  Building work, Woodwork

  beams, building, storage, tin roof, tools, woodwork, workshop

• Apologies for the radio silence…..

  We have been crazy busy round here…. At school we are getting an inspection… I’ve been boxing up loads of things at our house and we’ve hired a van and moved it to the farm… Little bear has started to walk…. Yay but oh help!!!  I promise there is a podcast soon!!!! But here are…

  Ellie

  May 14, 2017

  Building work, Garden, Interior design, Podcast, Wildlife, Working the land

  busy times

• Farm renovation updates!!!

  We have bedroom curtains!!! I made them!!!! With a lot of cutting out help from my lovely neighbour, without whom they would not be so well pattern matched!!! They need hemming but I’ve put them up to drop first!! Love them!!!! I have cut out the fabric for the hall curtains!!! Pattern matched now I…

  Ellie

  January 11, 2017

  Building work, Interior design, Sewing

  curtains, decorating, kitchen, lounge, Sewing, utility

• It’s slowly becoming a home!!!

  Last weekend Mum and Dad hired a van loaded up the bed frame Dad made from the old barn beams, a chair mum had recovered and some other bits and headed down to Wales!!!! We then loaded an absolute heap of furnishings at our current home, before heading on down to West Wales!!! The weekend…

  Ellie

  December 1, 2016

  Building work, Interior design, Uncategorized

  furniture, home