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24/06/2024 · 3:41 pm

What’s on at The Green Shed…

More lovely Creative Art Classes with Caroline

Join us for another magical, Intuitive Arts session for Adults ✨ at
https://thegreenshedn10.com/ 💚
Reconnect with your inner child and creativity 💖
Walk or sit among the medicinal shrubs and trees in the expansive, beautiful garden. Experience the meditative art of shin-rin yoku (forest bathing) and reconnect to nature 🌿.

I will guide you and support you. ⭐ I will provide techniques that will help you to flow. ⭐
All Materials Provided ⭐

I look forward to meeting you 😊
lots of love and intuitive light ⭐ ✨ 🌈 Caroline xxx

Sessions:
Sunday July 7 1-4 pm Friday July 12 1-4 pm Friday July 26 1-4 pm Sunday Aug 11 1-4pm

Cost: £35 per workshop
15% discount if you book more than one.

No one session is ever the same 💕

Call Caroline to book your place 😊 07939 224 758

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Illustrating Children’s Books Course for Adults

The price for the course is £200 for 10 lessons.

You’ll need to pay £100 in advance to book your spot (there are only 8 places available), and this advance payment is refundable up to a month before the course starts.

The remaining £100 is due at the beginning of the course.

The course is open to all levels, and I will strive to provide personalised attention to everyone. If you don’t have a story, you can choose one that you love and recreate the illustrations.

You have to bring your material, but I’ll bring mine too, to try and share.

This course promises to be fun and relaxed!

For further information, please visit Judi’s Instagram page or her Website

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Children’s Craft Parties at The Green Shed

I ran 6 wonderful craft parties this weekend and the weather played a blinder so all the food was eaten outside. The children made the most beautiful bunting and lavender bags to take home and they all had great fun.

Lots of photos and reviews on my website and Instagram page.

The Green Shed N10

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Nicky Grace Vintage Selling

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Vintage Fabric Scrap Packs

I’ve been collecting vintage fabric and gorgeous things since about 1994 when I was making my mini bunting for The Country Living Fair. Since then I had my own bricks and mortar shop and made hundreds of lavender hearts for Cath Kidston. My home and work have been featured in many magazines and also ‘Pretty Pastel Style’ book by Selena Lake. I live in Muswell Hill, North London and work from home. I have a studio called The Green Shed N10 where I do craft parties for children.

Please head to my Etsy shop

Vintage and newer scraps for journaling, slow sewing, the creative possibilities are endless…

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Another Year and still haven’t got the hang of blogging.

But I really want to, for my tiny business so I’m going to keep persevering. I haven’t done a blog post for a long time and sometimes I’d pay a lovely local lady called Estelle to do them for me as I’m severely dyspraxic and it’s getting worse and find this soooo difficult. I’d tell her what to write and I’d give her the photos but she’s moved 700 mikes away to Orkney quite possibly to get as far away from my irritatingly special needs as possible !!

So with my nice new second hand phone I’m going to try again. I don’t know what I’m doing and all these signs, symbols and information don’t go into my brain so I’ll ignore them. I’m actually scared of them.

I’d hoped in the year I’ve been away from my blog that WordPress would have become simpler but alas not.

So I don’t know how to make the writing closer to the photos and I don’t know why this is in a box, but I’m scared to touch anything in case I lose/delete it and then it’ll be another year till I try again. This has already taken me half an hour as I get so distracted. It’s bloody ridiculous and unbelievably frustrating.

Lovely old wheel barrow in the nearby allotments. VW Beetle blue.

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Very tasty pin cushions

I’ve been making pin cushions out of damaged, vintage embroidered tablecloths.

The embroidery was done in the Forties and Fifties and I only recently realised the pattern was already printed onto the linen so in that sense it was easy as they had a pattern to sew on.

You can tell how good the person was at embroidery partly because sometimes they didn’t cover the lines properly so you can see bits of the printing which should have been covered.

The real art though is in the colours. I’ve been collecting vintage table cloths for 20 years and so often I’ll see one which has been expertly made yet the colours aren’t very inspiring and I always think what a shame to have worked so hard and spent so many hours making it yet the result isn’t too enchanting. That’s unfortunately the case with most of them which is why when I find ones like these it’s like finding gold dust.

I wonder about the ladies who made them. Were they young, middle aged, elderly ? How did they even have time to embroider tablecloths when they had so much else to do, cooking from scratch, hand washing, looking after their families etc without all the mod cons we have.

Saying that though, they didn’t have televisions and if I didn’t watch so much TV I could probably embroider at least a couple of large table cloths every week 🙂 I’m glad they did it though so I don’t have to.

So here they are all together. I’ve also added some vintage fabric flowers to make them even more colourful and scrumptious.

And here they are all dressed for Easter.
I think a pin cushion should be beautiful because it’ll be next to you while you sew year after year. Mine is one of the very first things I made and I still love it.

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07/04/2013 · 7:48 pm

OMG I’m in the book !! “Pretty Pastel Style” by Selina Lake

I received my copy of Selina’s brand new book a couple of weeks ago and was completely overwhelmed to find so many pics of my house in it. I’ve taken photos of the pages and I’m not going to write anything with them because that would make me feel silly, like when an estate agent shows you round a house saying “this is the kitchen, this is the lounge” and you just want to ask him to please go away so you can look round in peace. The photographer is Catherine Gratwicke and the words are by Joanna Simmons.

The lovely embroidered hoop is by Vicky Trainor

Selina’s bike

Thank you SO much Selina Lake, Catherine Gratwicke, Joanna Simmons and publishers http://www.rylandpeters.com

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05/04/2013 · 8:15 pm

Three of my things on the front cover of Prima Spring Makes magazine April 2013 !!

It’s a beautiful magazine and the front page and the styling was done by Selina Lake. The floral heart (top left) and the moustache cushion are by Thimble & Bobbin, the Aunty card is by Abigail Warner, the little floral note books are by Emma Wilson, the LOVE postcard is by Cassia Beck, the lavender card and vintage lavender pillows are by Sesame and Lilly and the vintage embroidered hoop, lavender bag and yellow floral lavender heart are by me !!

Blimey that took ages, I’m not a natural at all this copy/paste/link business but I wanted to acknowledge all the other artists on the front cover with me.

Amongst all the beautiful pages is a six page spread about stylist/maker Torie Jayne who’s well known for her amazing blog.

Birdhouse Key rack

Torie’s workroom. I love that pink chair !!

Some of her lovely things

Her business card.

I met Torie at Selina’s book launch a few weeks ago when she came to my stand and introduced herself. I was quite taken aback because I didn’t know she’d be there. She gave me her card and I’ve kept it safely because it’s SO lovely. One of the nicest business cards I’ve ever seen.

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31/03/2013 · 3:06 pm

Happy Kitsch and colourful Easter

Poor mummy chick forgot to change the clocks forward and she overslept so she’s an hour behind and no time to do her hair.

My kids think I’ve totally lost the plot ! Do I care ? No I don’t 🙂

In fact one of my boys is sitting in the front room with his football shirt on watching a game shouting at the top of his lungs every time the ball goes near the net. God knows what the neighbours think.

The other son has just this second phoned me to say he’s on the train and can I fetch him in ten minutes…. errr no I can’t. He seems to think that I sit here with my car keys in my hand all day and night happily waiting for his call. I don’t. He’s 21 !!!!!!!!!!!!

I was having a happy little Easter blog,

and now I feel like this Ahhhhhhhh. Happy Easter everyone. Off I go to the station.

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20/02/2013 · 7:24 pm

Encouraging comments on Face Book

I’m just realizing that the amount of people that see my posts on Face Book

directly correlates to the amount of people who leave a comment.

I get a few likes sometimes which is always nice and shows that people have seen the posts but it’s the interaction that counts, which means commenting about the post. The more comments the more people get to see it. I don’t know how Face Book works but comments seem to generate action. I’m not very good at explaining things I don’t understand !

I’m a culprit myself. I’ll see something nice on someone’s page and press the ‘like’ button but not often comment because I can’t think what to say and whatever I do say sounds phoney or cheesy and it’s a bit cringe….. I don’t always want to comment anyway, I just want to ‘like’ and go. But now I realize that it’s the comments that make the Face Book world go round I shall make much more effort to do so.

I’ve also noticed and been told by social media expert Lindsay that if you don’t comment on people’s posts or they don’t comment on yours that Face Book now don’t show you those posts any more and not only is that a real shame but when you have a business (fan) page it’s also detrimental. FB now want people to pay for posts to reach more people which does work as I’ve tried it but I’d much rather deal in comments than £££.

To encourage such comments I’ll do little competitions sometimes on my page which is what I made these cards for. That was all a bit long winded wasn’t it. Never been good at explaining myself, sorry xx Press this !

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02/02/2013 · 2:10 pm

A lovely Selina Lake feature with a few of my things included.

Prima Magazine (March) came out a couple of days ago and I thumbed manically through the pages as the stylist Selina Lake had borrowed a vintage fabric patchwork throw and three cushions from me.

Page 81-83 they’re on !! I was quite exited standing in the magazine section of Tesco at 9pm, my new shopping time which is quite relaxing as it’s not busy and the crying babies and fed up toddlers are all at home. I think that after about 9pm they should put out a few comfy chairs so that those so inclined could read the mags in comfort instead of leaning heavily on our trolley.

I could quite happily spend a whole day in Tescos. I usually spend about half an hour in the magazine section anyway and sometimes meet a friend upstairs at Costa for a nice uninterrupted hour or two of quality catch up time.

Then back downstairs to meander round shopping leisurely, reading labels, peering at calorie contents, noticing how it’s all so expensive these days and wondering if my kids will notice that I’ve bought Tescos own brand of Special K. (They did and declared it inedible so I gave it to the birds)

Then I’d go and buy a couple of news papers, go back up in the lift to Costa and have a nice cake or two which I didn’t have with my friend as we’re fiendishly slimming (not)….

Then I’d go back down and maybe browse through the ‘colds and flue’ isle wondering if it’s actually worth buying vitamins and then maybe saunter (wearilly, after those two cakes) around the electronic isle looking at phones and ipads.

By this time I would hope that at least one of my children would have bothered to phone me to enquire as to my whereabouts….but probably not.

If my local Tesco had a bed and breakfast area for tired shoppers, like a little rest stop with own brand sheets, cheap slippers and mini tubes of toothpaste for those of us who couldn’t face the inevitable job ahead of unpacking the shopping and putting it away then I’d book ahead. As long as I got tipple club card points.

My throw featured here was £140 but to celebrate it being in Prima it’s now the amazingly good value of £95. The cushion was £45 and is now £38.

Stylist Selina Lake is launching her lovely new book ‘Pretty Pastel Style’ with a wonderful fair with fantastic designer maker stall holders. I went to her last one nearly a year ago and it was so beautiful and quite exiting. It’s in Kingston West London on Friday the 22nd March 2013 and everyone is welcome. There will I’m sure be lots of cake.

The photo here are by Sussie Bell

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28/01/2013 · 5:14 pm

Colourful bowls of vintage flowers.

I’ve been making some flower collages which I absolutely love doing.

I was a florist for about 10 years during the eighties in our family business which was a Dutch/continental flower shop in London so I’m no stranger to flower arranging.

I’ve always loved hot, strong clashing colours and where as most of our customers preferred the safety of elegant white bouquets and arrangements, when they saw the wonderful, vibrant clashes of carefully selected orange, pink and red flowers flown in straight from the growers in Holland, they gradually loved those colour combinations too.

This fabric is from the thirties and forties and I cut out the flowers by hand. It’s much warmer than working in a busy flower shop and I don’t get rose thorns in my hands.

These pictures can be found in my on line shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/NickyGrace

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20/01/2013 · 8:57 pm

Pitfield Cafe London

Last weekend I went with a friend to Pitfield Cafe and shop in Shoreditch.

We had the most delicious lunch in the lovely cafe

I didn’t take any pics of the cafe because it was full and it didn’t feel right pointing my camera at strangers.

It’s a very large space and about three quarters is the shop.

Blury pic of a bit of the food counter.

Lovely old watering cans

Nice isn’t it.

They also sell gorgeous tea towels by Barbara Chandler

Cabinets full of vintage glass

Beautiful huge old prints

Cosy corner and lots of fifties crockery exactly the same as my grandma used to have.

The waitresses were very friendly and actually wiped the crumbs from the tables into their hands and not onto the floor like some places (drives me insane).

What I loved most of all though was the wonderful frontage which I think is outstandingly amazingly beautiful. Just Ahhhhhh

Old Street Tube London.

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What’s on at The Green Shed…

Another Year and still haven’t got the hang of blogging.

Very tasty pin cushions

OMG I’m in the book !! “Pretty Pastel Style” by Selina Lake

Three of my things on the front cover of Prima Spring Makes magazine April 2013 !!

Happy Kitsch and colourful Easter

Encouraging comments on Face Book

A lovely Selina Lake feature with a few of my things included.

Colourful bowls of vintage flowers.

Pitfield Cafe London

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