HS.Hannah Stothard | Web Designer & Front End Web Developer

i love arty crafty things, making websites, interiors, travelling & growing my own veg.

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Apr 2012

Easter Egg Decortating

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I decorated a couple of eggs as gifts over the easter weekend. I have to say it took a lot longer than I anticipated and quite a few coats of acrylic paint to cover the brown shell. Heres how they worked out…

Painted Easter Eggs

Oct 2011

Knitting Window Installation

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I was shopping in Oxford Street one evening last week when I spotted this…

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knitting

Claire Nixon is the lovely lady knitting away in this live installation at Oasis. As it says in the first picture. “By the end of this week, Claire will have been lovingly hand knitting for 7 days and will have made a giant scarf over 5 metres in length!”

I think the window was a really nice idea. It looked great and certainly drew my attention to Oasis. Claire’s work is also fascinating, you can read more about her on her website and admire her chunky knitting. :)

Oct 2011

Renegade Craft Fair, London 2011

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This weekend I went to the Renegade Craft Fair on Brick Lane. It was their first ever London event and it was brilliant. Its one of the best craft fairs I have been to in a long time. Every single stool was full of really nice handmade things. All the crafts were modern and really reasonably priced. I had to hold back the temptation to spend lots of money.


Chalk signpost for the fair



Stools

There was a free felt making class courtsey of The Make Lounge. The Make Lounge do a variety of evening classes that I have always fancied doing. Hopefully one day I will get round to doing a real one :) It was my first attempt at felting and I quite enjoyed it although the little fox I made must have taken an hour in total. Felting involves jabbing a needle repeatedly into hair like material until it starts to matt together. You shape your creation by turning the matted felt and making some areas denser than others.

Sep 2011

Plum Cake

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We were given lots of plums by a friend. Below is some pics of one of the many recipes we followed in order to use them all up.

Recipe: http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/74/recipe-for-fresh-plum-cake/