Autumn leaf candle holder and bees wax egg shell candle

Dear friends,
the next Toadstool House workshop dates are Friday 19th April and all day Saturday the 20th.I have 2 places left in this workshop.
I am also pleased to be launching my seasonal craft workshops in Melbourne.The first one on the 14th April is at Autumn Retreat a beautiful wholistic health and well being centre in Thornbury.This workshop is booked out.
Fortunately i will be holding a similar workshop at Little Sophia Kindergarten in Abbotsford on the 27th April.See the info below.This workshop will be very special as Steiner teacher Helen Charge (both my children's early childhood teacher ) will give a talk on autumn and how to celebrate the seasons with your children.cheers Nikki

AUTUMN CRAFT

Seasonal Craft Workshops @ Little Sophia Kindergarten

Come along and learn to create your own beautiful felted 100% wool autumn leaf garland and candle holder. The workshop will be led by Nikki Fletcher who has been teaching Steiner inspired crafts to parents since 2005.You can view more of her work at www.toadstoolhouse.blogspot.com.

In this workshop you will learn wet felting, needle felting and other handwork techniques to bring the magic of autumn inside. Helen Charge will inspire you with a talk on autumn and how to honor and celebrate the changing seasons with our children by creating a seasonal table. Beginners welcome!

Sat  27thApril. 10am – 3.30pm. $50, $40 conc.$20 deposit

@ Little Sophia 35 Abbotsford St, Abbotsford (03) 9417 2537

Bring 2 towels, an apron and a plate to share for lunch

For more info or to book call Nikki 0401335005 .You can pay your deposit at Little Sophia or by direct transfer or PayPal by emailing  nikkifletcher@internode.on.net.

Autumn garland to hang inside your house

 Autumn centrepiece for your table.

Workshop, march 2013 Toadstool House Melbourne

                   Dear wonderful crafty Ladies,

          I have been running craft workshops from home in Melbourne for the past 6 months 

    which has been wonderful . I have also been working with child care workers  

          who are aiming to bringing more natural and nature based play materials to 
          their children. I will be offering a variety of workshops this year focusing on 
          felted wall hangings, nature tables, and seasonal festivals.
           A friend at school suggested I post the workshop 
          dates on this blog  so more people can find out  about whats
          going on and when. So here it is the next workshop......

FAIRY TOADSTOOL HOUSE WORKSHOP    

with Nikki Fletcher

  Learn to create your own beautiful 100% wool fairy toadstool house!

In this workshop you will learn wet felting, 

needle felting and other handwork techniques 

to create your own magical toadstool house.

Beginners welcome!

Friday 1^st March, 7pm -9.30pm 

 and Sat 2^nd March, 10am – 4.30pm

$85, all materials included. $30 deposit

To be paid by direct transfer, reply email for details to

nikkifletcher@internode.on.net

BYO plate to share for lunch, 

morning and afternoon tea supplied

LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE !

For more information phone Nikki 0401 335005

mothers day

Blessings to all  loving mothers

and the angels who watch over us and our children.

This wet felted angel wall hanging was created for a brave mother 

who's little boy returned to the angels all too soon.

We also send blessings to all the mothers that passed too soon 

from the world and their children. love and blessings of peace.
   
My apologies for my long absence.
As you may know i moved our family from Melbourne to the gold coast 4 years ago to look after my husbands 2 nephews and niece after they were orphaned.Tragically both their parents died of cancer 5 years apart .
After 4 years with us they have all come of age and we have had to return to Melbourne due to financial constraints.
The last 6 months have been difficult for everyone but I couldn't have got through it without Mia and my amazing crafting women friends who were so generous and loving and supportive.
So although we are all still recovering i am happy to say this blog is up and running again and i have alot of projects to share with you from the past 12 months.We are also looking forward to offering some of our frequently requested kits for sale thru this blog. 
 blessings . nikki

birthday celebration craft

Mia and I made some special peices this year for some special people.

We began by making 2 sets of birthday celebration props for Prep.

The birthday angel .

 

The rainbow spiral birthday mat.

The birthday crown.

The rainbow silk birthday cape.

And the rainbow bridge story mat with a mum and a dad, a cradle, an angel, and a wee babe.

And here is my sweet son at his celebration!

term 4 2010

Greetings dear crafters,

It has been a long time since my last post .

Fortunately there has been no gap in the creating of projects and the giving of workshops!

 I have  many many  projects to share with you! 

I hope they inspire and delight you as much as they have us.

Our first project in term 4 was Mias beautiful affirmation pocket friends.

These sweet tiny pocket folk fit perfectly into the hand (and pocket) of a child.

They are a simple friendly reminder to a child of a small message of affirmation to help them deal with what might be a difficult time or a hard lesson to learn.

What a lovely way for a child to be reminded to be brave in the face of fear or to believe in themselves!

Each one is also accompanied by a simple poem of affirmation.

They were so popular with the children we have made them into a kit including our rainbow felt and silver plated bells.The bells have the most pure ring that is quite delightful every time it is heard.

 

Here they are with their affirmation poems.

Our next project was the beautiful felt flower hair clips from purl bee.Check out the free pattern at www.purlsoho.com under rose barrette .Mia also created the lady bird clip.

 

 We then went crazy for the delightful soft trees.

 The crafty mums had loads of ideas that completley surpassed our original ideas.

We finished the year with the sweet and simple raibow silk fairies.

Dear crafty friends,

We have been busily creating spring inspired goodies at our monday craft sessions.

Our rainbow mother and baby bird were lots of fun to make.

Over 30 people came to this workshop.

 

Our silk dying workshops are also a big favourite with our mums. With just yellow and blue and a touch of pink we created some stunning spring playcloths for our seasonal tables.

We created a rainbow angel mobile in hounour of our newest craft baby Skyla.

She loves it!The ladies worked in pairs to make the mobile which was really enjoyable .

Our Australian animal series continued with the rascally dingo designed by Dionne.

Isnt he gorgeous!

 We held a saturday workshop showcasing Christina Lane with her needlefelted spring maiden.

She is truly the queen of facial detail!

This bee hive was inpired by Satchico one of our talented mums.The coil basketry technique is so useful to make all sorts of containers.We are very lucky to have so many talented women in our group!

The chidren love to hide the bees inside the hive!

It can also be used as a string holder!

 

We have a couple of weeks left in the term befor our market so I will share them in the coming weeks!

Cheers for now .... nikki

Dear crafty friends,

We have some beautiful work from Christinas crystal cave workshop which is ready to go to our end of term craft market next week.Im also keen to enter our craft groups work into our local agricultural show. Here is some of the beautiful creations!

The central one AND the one below was made by wendy. She delighted us all by creating a treasure hunt list of 14 different things to find in the landscape including a treasure chest full of jewels, a bat, a bear, a frog, a snail, a mouse, a pile, of wood, a camp fire and an owl. What an inspiration she was for us all!

I love the little camp firers that appeared.

they all turned out so well and all so different.

so much attension to detail.

They are so 3 dimentional its hard to do them justice in the photographs.

 

I love the tree idea! and the fairy ring of flowers.

 

 and more detail.

 

Well done everyone!