You know the saying “stepping out of your comfort zone”? I’ve been experiencing it a lot over the past few weeks. My comfort zone is ... A workshop full of fibre/beads/metal/paper/threads and a Box of tools with which to fettle them. Or maybe a kitchen full of ingredients and a pre-warmed oven ;-) My comfy place is a fireside chair with a good book on the go. I’m comfortable walking in the Dorset countryside - well actually, just walking - anywhere. I gain comfort from creati

I'm so busy getting this new Online Handmade for Christmas thing off the ground, that it's only just occurred to me that any new subscribers to the Workhouse Chapel site might be wondering what it's all about... Hello! - I'm Rose and I'll try to explain... This little Victorian Chapel is just over the road from our home, and it so needed someone to care for it - so we did. We gave it a kitchen and a loo, a mezzanine floor, a mahoosive woodburner, a capacious logstore and lot