Bobbles and berries
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
This week has been all about crochet and marvelling at how mild the weather has been so far this autumn. We have only had the fire alight a couple of times this week which is probably a good thing as we are waiting on a load or two of firewood to see us through the winter and our wood pile is really just a collection of rejects from last winter. The rejects you know are the logs that are a bit too difficult to split but too big to fit in the firebox, very frustrating. I have spent a lot of time this week on my crochet project. It’s a crochet along being run by Sirdar in the UK. The pattern is ..read more
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Hettie and life
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
It’s been such a long time since I felt I had something to say but after having done a whole lot of admin work on the computer this morning it kind of felt natural to come here for a chat. Between this post and my last the world has been turned upside down by the pandemic. Millions of lives have been lost and many more effected in so many ways by the virus. For me and mine the main issue has been not being able to see my eldest son for more than a year. All things being in the correct alignment we will see him in a month or so though for his wedding. So exciting. Much of my time over the past ..read more
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Burning
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
So a new decade has begun, and my new decade began too, last August. I’m 60 now and that’s a thing that makes you pause a moment. When I started blogging I was 45, our three children were still at home and I was just starting tentative steps towards being a professional doll maker. It seems like a lifetime ago. I celebrated my birthday with my family in a place called Jackeys Marsh. I wanted to be in a place that was quintessentially Tasmanian and like so much of Tasmanian I found it to be a deeply spiritual place filled with echoes of its history and the lives lived there: people, animals an ..read more
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Georgie
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
This dear sweet little doll has been around for a while, begun in a flurry and then distractible me kept going off on tangents while she patiently waited. She inspired me to make her a little bedroom and try out a few new patterns but now finally I have taken myself in hand, organised some photos and popped her in the shop. The link will go live at 9.30amAEST on Friday 21st June. Here is a link to check the time in your zone Here is the link to my shop, just click on the button My Doll Shop ..read more
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May
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
We are having such gorgeous autumn weather this year. Lots of misty mornings, a little rain, a little wind and lots of sunshine coming in at an angle that makes the whole world look magical, well the whole world that is my garden. The Easter break has come and gone and we spent some lovely days in Hobart with the kids, the two that live there that is. A beautiful walk at the edge of the south west wilderness was a treat for all of us. We won’t see Louis until July when he has the ceremony for the conferring of his PhD. Very exciting and well deserved for his years of work. What a test of stam ..read more
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November
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
This post was meant to be published before the end of November but time got away from me. I feel like I am waking from one of those cool summer afternoon naps. You know the ones where you drift in and out of sleep, hearing snippets of what is going on around you and they become incorporated in your dream, then you slip into a deep sleep and wake refreshed and full of ideas about what comes next. That is kind of how the past 18 months or so have been, since we became a couple again, no children at home and everything seeming a little strange and muddled to begin with. I do feel so refreshed no ..read more
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Road trip
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
The whole family went on a little road trip at the beginning of December. We all met in Ballarat, the Tasmanian contingent having made the Bass Strait ferry trip the night before. Before we went to there we spent the morning in beautiful Daylesford. The area between Daylesford and Ballarat is where my ancestors, my dad’s family arrived in the 1860s from Yorkshire. It was the time of the goldrush, I’m not sure if they came to find their fortune or just to start a new life. It is a part of Victoria that I have always loved even before I knew of any family connection. We then headed down to Apol ..read more
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Daisies and buttercups
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
We spent this past weekend in Hobart visiting the kids. At the moment they are still sharing a flat so it feels like our second home when we go to visit. Kate has finished her second year of uni, Andy is about half way through his PhD. We went to the Hobart Steiner school fair on the Sunday which was very busy and perhaps a little too noisy so afterwards we headed down the Channel to enjoy some peaceful countryside. It’s always lovely to discover hidden treasures, Tasmania seems to have so many. I’m not sure exactly where we were but we found the Kaoota Tramway track and had a quiet walk in t ..read more
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Lotta
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
I have a doll ready for the shop. Her name is Lotta. I have mindfully and happily created this little one. She is all things gentle and spirited. She has a quiet calm, a certainty of her place in the scheme of things. She is in those years when family and her own little world are her reference points, the way it is done here is the way it is done and it’s wonderful. No comparisons to others, no jealousy or longing just a contentment with what is, in this place. A wonder too at the things she finds in this little world. Do you remember those times, somewhere deep inside you when all that you h ..read more
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Inspiration
Little Jenny Wren
by jenny marshall
3y ago
I seem to have found a renewed vigour with my work towards the end of this week. Lots and lots of ideas spinning round in my head and relaxing of the rules I keep consciously and unconsciously putting in place for myself, rules that limit choices in an attempt to concentrate my mind. Instead, much like my garden waking up from the winter and deciding to make everything grow madly, my imagination has gone mad. How this will translate into work and how long it will last is another matter but it’s exciting. A consequence is that I am now living in a tip with stuff everywhere though a bit of a ti ..read more
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