Episode 22 - Wool, glorious wool!

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Hi everyone,

I have updated the podbean player to the right of these posts, if you click the symbol in the top right (3 little lines and dots) it will bring a drop down list of all the episodes...the old one just wasn't working anymore!

Here are the shownotes for this episode:

This is what arrived shortly after I recorded the last episode...



Mam almost got sucked into a bag of Stylecraft...



The chair before and after, I'm really pleased with how these are coming along!



A sneak peak of what is going to be on the website...


Thanks for listening!

Aimee x




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