Sherwood Art Week 2014

   Sherwood Art Week starts this Saturday 21st June!
This year I will be at the Remarkable Recycling Gala on Sunday 22nd June with my recycled glass vessels reused as packaging for the all natural Bath Salts. On the stall I will be also offering revitalising and relaxing hand soaking experience with the salts. Some of the herbs I've used are organic and raised by myself at the Transition Sherwood Community Garden just behind Sherwood Community Centre.
I will be selling some of my decorative pieces as well.

There is lots more to see and do, fantastic old and new events, have a look at the Sherwood Art Week website


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Jars Decorating at Spring Blossom Day, St Anns Allotments

Just few photos from the Jars Decorating Activity during the Spring Blossom Day at St Anns Allotments 10th May 2014 .
Despite the showers and wind at times the participants got inspired by the beautiful views and transformed the reclaimed jars into fantastic colourful mementos to take home.

Chestita Baba Marta 2014

It's 1st of March and I wish you all my readers Chestita Baba Marta! To read one of my previous blog posts inspired by this ancient Bulgarian custom click here.
And here is this year's crocheted martenichka I created myself learning from a book wth samples from the library. A bit too big a star on my coat but it's mine!

Repurposing Glass Jars at AMC Gardens

Excited to be running the jars/bottles decorating activity transforming them into lanterns to take home on 7th Dec 4-7pm at AMC Gardens, Nottingham part of the Garden Lights Community Event. We will take inspiration from what is happening around us, there will be lots of entertainment and participation as you can see from their website. Can even try your hand at rowing like the Meadows Olympians!
There are some photos from this fab community event on the AMC Gardens Gallery page

A small selection of the transformed jars and bottles into lanterns. We used Glow sticks for gentle and safe light.

Lovely feedback from one of the event's organisers Kate: 'Thank you for supporting our Garden Lights event. The visitors seemed to really enjoyed taking part in your activity – I had quite a few people come up to me and show me their painted glass jars. Everyone seemed very proud of what they had made, which was nice.'

I enjoyed  running the activity  very much and meeting so many friendly Meadows residents.

Summer Holiday Ideas Jar

Stuck for ideas how to entertain the family during the holiday? Make a jar for inspiration and plans with the kids. See my last year blog post and get creative:


http://craftyglassnottingham.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/summer-holiday-ideas.html

Drying Herbs for Health and Well-being

Las year I posted about my experiences drying and using herbs and flowers for health and well-being, have a look here.
This year I'm drying herbs again, using the Transition Sherwood Community Food Garden shed and herbs.

Some of the herbs are foraged, some are from my back garden, some- from my Transition plot, some- from the Shared Herb plot.
 So far this year I have stored (in glass jars of course): elderflower, thyme, Greek oregano, marjoram and lavender. I'm going to share the herbs and my knowledge how to use them with the garden group and during a community event in the autumn.

Part of one of the Transition Circles, The Shared Herb Plot is on the right

Reflection on Workshop: Inspired by Sustainability

Check out the post on the Transition Sherwood website  about the activities at Sherwood Community Centre and the Transition Garden during the first day of Sherwood Art Week including my workshop Inspired by Sustainability

The kids wandered in the garden and then drew on the donated CD's (full with data not needed any more) and transformed them into beautiful decorations to take home. You could really see where did they get their inspiration from. The flowering chives, daisies, sage  were very popular.
Not just the CD's, the ribbons and elastic are reclaimed as well.
At the end we created signs for some of the shared areas re-using more CD's : compost and herb plot. Will do some more with the garden members and volunteers soon.