Elves Fair Crafting Supplies at the Wishing Well

Come get your crafting supplies for the Elves Fair crafting at the Wishing Well

Beeswax Crayons at the Wishing Well;)

Come get your Yarn at the Wishing Well to start a new Project!

If you are looking for a fun Spring project, come have a look at these beautiful carved wooden blocks from India. I printed a piece of muslin using fabric paint. Kaki uses them to print her own wrapping paper. You could make table cloths, hand towels, curtains, and so much more. We have lots of blocks to choose from.

It's time to get cracking on your Spring bunnies people! We have all kinds of cute origami paper in stock so come get your paper and then click here for instructions on how to make the adorable bunny you see above.

This lovely pouch was knitted by PWS 3rd grader Esme Nix from wool purchased from the Wishing Well. Our thanks to Esme for sharing her creative work with us.

We just received these embroidered linen bags. The large ones are a good size for handwork projects. You could fit several balls of yarn, and your needles, and pattern in one. The smaller bags could be filled with treats or a little toy for Valentine's Day. So sweet. 

These adorable peg bears, bunnies, and mushrooms were made at the Angel Room workshop last week. If you'd like to try your hand at these, the Wishing Well carries not only unpainted pegs in various shapes and sizes, but also a great peg doll how-to book. 

And come join us for the next Angel Room workshop where we'll be making hand-sewn animals like the one below.  No experience necessary! Wednesday after drop-off!

Fall arrives and once again our thoughts turn (one hopes) toward the making of our ten Angel Room items, our handmade gifts to the children in our community. Are you grumbling? Feeling anxious, or not so crafty? Don't fret! There are so many easy and sweet things you can make.

Click here to see simple, step-by-step instructions to make the little fellow above. You only need three supplies to make it, all of which the Wishing Well carries, and it only takes about twenty minutes!

list of materials:

wool roving in white, black, gray and orange
felting needle
foam block

And by the way, at our next Angel Room item workshop this Wednesday morning, we'll be making those sheep you see in the background. So stop by if you can join us, or if you have questions or need help with the making of your items!

Welcome back to school everyone! We've got lots of new yarn and wool roving in the store for Fall projects and Angel Room crafting. Come see!

The following excerpt is from the Virginia Beach SPCA. What a great project for parents and kids!

If You Knit Or Crochet

Many of our wildlife rehabbers use knitted or crocheted nests for the very young wildlife. These nests act just like nests in the wild, to secure the young, allow them to snuggle together and to maintain body temperature. 

Please use yarns that are not too "snaggy", double up your yarn and stitch in very tight stitches so that tiny arms and legs can't slip through. (*Kaki suggested wet felting as a way of addressing this issue as well, but you'd need to make a bigger nest as it would shrink in the felting process.) Colors do no matter! The babies do not care what their nests look like.

This is a great project for Scout groups and others looking to learn to crochet or knit, and where the final project can be lopsided, crooked, and full of errors, and no one minds!!  These instructions were written by our volunteer exclusively for the VBSPCA Wildlife Program.  If you use these instructions or our images on your own website, please include credit to the VBSPCA Wildlife Program

CROCHET NEST DIRECTIONS:
To begin, chain 3, join (with a slip stitch) to form ring.
Round 1: Chain 2 (this counts as your first “stitch), work between 10 – 15 single crochets into th ring (depending on what thickness yarn you are using). Slip stitch the last single crochet to the top stitch in the chain 2 that started this round.
Round 2: Chain 2. Single crochet into each of the next two stitches, then do 2 single crochet’s into the next stitch, single crochet into the next two stitches, then 2 single crochet’s in the the next stitch. And on and on around the circle. Slip stitch your last single crochet into the top of the chain 2 that started this round.
Round 3, 4, 5, 6, and on: Repeat Round 2 over and over, until your circle is at least 3” big. You can make your nest with a bottom as small as 3” big, up to maybe 6” big.

Once you have made the bottom of the nest from 3” to 6” big, from all rounds thereafter, crochet ONE single crochet into each stitch. You will see your “sides” begin to form. Crochet until the sides are about 2 – 3” high. Bind off and weave in loose ends.

Directions:
On size 5 dpn’s cast on 54 stitches (dividing up into 18 sts/needle). Work in knit (stockingette is automatic on dpn’s) stitch for approximately 3 inches. Begin decreasing for the crown as follows:
Next row: *K 7, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Next row: *K 6, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Next row: *K 5, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Nest row: *K 4, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Next row: *K 3, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Next row: *K 2, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Next row: *K 1, k 2 tog* repeat to end
Clip of yarn leaving a tail of about 6 inches.
Using yarn needle, slide yarn needle under all stitches on needles, and draw tight to close up the end. Knot.

Drop off or Mail to:

Virgina Beach SPCA Wildlife Program
Attn: Wildlife

3040 Holland Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23453

Dreamy notebooks.....

This peg loom kit comes with everything you need to get started and is perfect for kids from first grade on. Buy one now and get your kids started on holiday gifts for grandparents! $29.48

 

Everyone in the family can sculpt his or her very own Michaelmas dragon with his or her very own dragonish personality...what could be more ferociously wonderful for your nature table? Just warm the wax in your hands and away you go. We have many colors of beeswax to choose from. $2.50 / sheet. We also sell multi-color boxed sets. 

A beautifully shaped wooden rollerball pen. It has two indents for the fingers that help children learn, in a relaxed way, the proper writing position. Good for lefty's and righty's. ($15.98) Rollerball tip unscrews and can be replaced with the calligraphy nibs below. Takes ink cartridges.

Three pack of different sized calligraphy nibs compatible with wooden rollerball pen ($17.98), and ink cartridges (10 cents each).

Beechwood calligraphy pen ($2.98), steel pen nibs (10 cents each), mercurius ink ($9.98), and the shooting star pen that magically disappears mistakes (98 cents).

This paper heart basket is made from double sided origami paper from the Wishing Well.....sweet and simple. Click here to find out how.

Come join us at the Wishing Well for Michelle Miller's Valentine Paper Crafts Workshop, Thursday, February 9, from 8:15 - 10:30. You will learn how to make the hearts pictured here, and more.

We have beautiful paper for Valentine crafting.

Nothing says I love you like a heart stuffed with flowers and tiny treasures. To make the one above, see this woven heart tutorial.