Tag: forestschool

Children, Firewood, Forest schools, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

What we do Wednesday!

Ellie

How to process firewood!! Well how we collect and process it!! 😂

You can find a short video here of what we do!!!

Someone LOVES the chainsaw helmet!!!

Especially the visor!!! 😂

And whilst the chain saw was out!! Himself chopped me up some logs to make a log circle in the littlie’s forest school area!

Craftiness, Forest schools, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

A first try!!

Ellie

So a different sort of weaving has been happening here…..

A hazel hurdle is in the making!!!

We have decided to have a go to make some prettier panels to make the gaps into what was the old slurry pit and will be our fruit and vegetable garden, safe!! Hopefully child safe!!!!

James and I selected an old beam which was big and heavy enough to form the jig…..

Then whittled the ends of some larger hazel rods to make the uprights….. lots of our hazel is very overgrown so we are working with some very bobbly bits of wood, but using what we have!!

This took ages to sort…. the beam was OLD and rather solid to drill the holes into!! And some of the uprights, in order to get the straighter bits were a tad large in diameter!!

I’ve even found a use for the ash mallet I made on my forest school leader course!!! Fantastic for bashing down the hazel whips!!!

We are at the stage of weaving in the thinner whippier bits of hazel now and over half way up the panel!!

And I’m surprised how pleased I am with it!!! We both predicted this first go would be a disaster but no….. totally a usable panel!!!

Craftiness, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy

Lots of new additions to the shop!!!!

Ellie

I’ve been a busy bee out in the workshop and generally here at the small holding and have produced a few new bits and bobs for my Etsy shop

What do you all think?!

Pop over to the shop to have a looks at these and all the other bits and bobs I have in there!!!

More will be added each day for the foreseeable!! So keep checking in and maybe you might find that elusive last few little Christmas presents?!!!!

Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy!!!

Also have you seen the most recent podcast?! Over on the Tyddyn Bryn YouTube channel for anyone who wants to watch a bit about my crafting and some general farm happenings!!

Forest schools, knitting, Patterns, Woodwork, yarn

A little crafty update and a teaser for some shop updates this week!!

Ellie

So I have been knitting on Some Christmas socks and the wool is working out ok!

Then I’ve finished a project from the WIP wall of shame!!!! Yay!!!

Meet the leaf babies!!

So more about them later this week!!

Then I’ve been out in the workshop working on some wood crafts and pyrography….

Then for little Sirs Forest school group I’ve been asked to knit some elf clothes so the children can make some little elves!!

I finished proto elf last evening!! Along with a few other projects to be revealed later this week!!

So stay tuned this week for lots of shop updates and FO posts!!!

Forest schools

Ahhh nearly a month ago!!!

Ellie

ok it’s been nearly a month since my last blog post here!!! Time certainly flies when you are having fun hopefully some of the next few blog posts will explain the busy and the lack of blog posts on a regular basis!!!

Anyway…..

After the last posting about the West Country game fair I had my second set of days at Forest School training!!! Outside in the cold BUT STILL TOTALLY AMAZING!!!!

There was sawing…..

  

Knot tying!!!

  

Shelter building and all sorts!!! 

  

Another fab two days in the woods!!!