Store Hours
Our online shop is always open, but the store in Glenealy is closed during January 2012, see you in February!
NEXT GATHERING IS SATURDAY 12th MARCH:
The Hero Workshop
Would you like to be the hero in your own life?
While being a Hero might sound like a huge undertaking, what it actually involves is doing what you love to do, wearing what you love to wear, and in lots of other ways, sharing yourself through your joy with the world. Have you ever thought you'd love to do something, maybe learn a new skill or join a group or organise a protest meeting? But then you worried that it was too hard, completely impossible or stupid?
What if ...... that thing you're thinking about is the most important thing you'll ever do? What if... just the thought of doing it has started the Hero's Journey in your life? You may be surprised to find out that you're already living the life of a hero... Come along and recognise yourself!
So, please let me know if you can make it - its going to be life changing!! and do bring along any biscuits or cakes and any crafts you are working on too if you would like..........
Every second Saturday of the month, like minded people gather together at the OOOOBY Store to share our creativity and skills.
Meet other crafts people, whether they are professional or just creating for a hobby - and share skills and swap ideas somewhere where the kettle is always on and delicious cakes and biscuits are always available!
You dont have to be really 'good' at making stuff, just the passion to try!!
We may also invite group members or outside tutors to come along from time to time to give us classes too.
As a way of supporting the OOOOBY Store who host us, we would ask for a donation of €5 each time you come along. This will cover your tea/coffee.
So tell your friends, to grab their knitting or any projects they may be making at the moment and come along and let us know what YOU would like this group to offer!
PLEASE SEE SEPERATE NOTES BELOW FOR MORE UP TO DATE INFORMATION ON OUR GATHERINGS AND OTHER CRAFT RELATED COURSES, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS THAT ARE COMING UP - please inform us if you know of anything that like minded people might like to visit!!
If you would like to go on our mailing/contact list or for more info for this group please contact Lusi
You can also join in on the online crafts discussion
Look forward to meeting you soon!
Lusi and Orlaith
Ooooby Craft Circle
| 29 Nov 2010 |
We all had the most wonderful group for Maria from the Yarn Room in Ashford, when she came and beautifully demonstrated and helped us to create beautiful wet felted flowers - we had the biggest turn out ever of over 20 participants, and we all had a ball!! Thank you to Maria for all her inspiration, skill and energy for the group, and we hope very much to do more wet felting in 2011.............. .
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| 4 Oct 2010 |
SATURDAY 9th OCTOBER Knot Work Bracelets with Orlaith - using string, twine, leather, wool, cord and beads. Come along and have a go!! SATURDAY 13th NOVEMBER Wet Felting - make your own felt flower with Maria from the Yarn Room, Ashford. SATURDAY 11th DECEMBER Create your own Christmas Wreath for your door using willow, dogwood, holly, pine etc. and enjoy a glass of mulled wine and some snacks to celebrate the Festive Season PLEASE CONTACT US TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE ABOVE so we can co-ordinate materials for the projects - Thank You. |
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| 21 Sep 2010 |
Hi everyone Just to let you know we are starting up again on every second Saturday of each month, our first gathering will therefore be SATURDAY OCTOBER 9th - we start at about 2pm and go on till 4-5pm with a donation requested of 5 euro to cover use of the Ooooby Store and refreshments. As this is our first circle, we will be discussing what way we would like to proceed, so do please bring along any crafts you are working on as well as any ideas or inspiration! we will have the kettle on and do bring some home baking if you have any!! look forward to seeing you there - DONT FORGET, WITHOUT YOU, WE DONT EXIST!!! Lusi and Orlaith |
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| 13 Feb 2010 |
Our first Craft Circle for 2010 is next Saturday, the second in the month as usual, the 13th February. We will be offering the circle open of course to any projects you might like to bring along to work with. We will also be talking 'Crochet' this meeting - lots of you have requested this topic, and as myself and Orlaith are totally mad about it, that suits us fine!! we both have a little experience of crochet now, and are happy to share what we know with everyone. We thought it would be nice to learn a few basic stitches and actually try a type of crochet called Hyperbolic - this is based funnily enough on maths and science, but is very easy!! we will be trying out a few different spiral shapes so we hope you will come along and have a go. We like to strengthen our link to the Yarn Room shop in Ashford, Wicklow, where Irene has be facilitating workshops to create hyperbolic shapes to be included in the Great Barrier Reef Crochet Coral Exhibition which will be held in Dublin in March. It is to raise awareness of this vital and disintegrating reef, and exhibitions have been travelling the world with this aim in mind. So, if you would like to contribute a piece, do come and have a try. The deadline for pieces is the end of February and should be handed into the Yarn Room by then. So, hope to see you on Saturday.
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| 13 Dec 2009 |
We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas Craft Circle on the 13th December - unfortunately Orlaith could not be there, but Lusi showed everyone how to make Christmas Flax Angels - we had some gorgous angels made that day, and even Siobhan made one!!! We also started some work with crochet stitches, and many of you managed to pick up a couple of these and i believe speaking to some of you, this actually led to several hats being made!! i think You Tube was utilised for more crochet information, and i must say, there are thousands of videos showing stitches, patterns etc for both knitting and crochet work there - very useful!!
Our January Craft Circle was cancelled due to the mad snow conditions!!
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| 14 Nov 2009 |
Our first Craft Circle gathering was great!! and i would like to thank everyone for coming along........ we had the very comfortable number of 12 at our first meeting, with one lady coming all the way from the Kilkenny/Carlow border! i very much hope she will make it back for our next meeting too!! We all got to learn some flax weaving flower work with Orlaith - thank you Orlaith, you gave of yourself so selflessly, and i know that everyone really enjoyed creating beautiful flowers with this most amazing of materials while we all got to drink lots of tea and coffee, and shared different cakes and biscuits too.............. and it was lovely to see some inspired children come along with their mums as well!! Many of you brought your woven projects along, and the knitting and crochet work was beautiful and inspiring to see, so thank you for sharing these items with the group
www.ravelry.com and www.knitwitch.com are great wool sites!! |
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Hi everyone, we had a lovely sunny session outside the Ooooby Store for our last gathering, and now we are closing the Craft Circle for the Summer. We shall gather again in the Autumn, and i shall email you all about the start date nearer the time. If you are interested in joining our group, please email me on littlewolf04@gmail.com and i can put you on our Mailing List. HAPPY SUMMER!!! Lusi and Orlaith Ooooby Store, Carraig Dulra, Glenealy, Co Wicklow |
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Hi there, we wanted to start to put up different events coming up around Wicklow of interest to crafty people! here are a few suggestions - if you know of an event, workshop, course or demonstration coming up, please email me so i can log it on here - at littlewolf04@gmail.com - Thank you Heritage Craft Exhibition and Workshops, The Old Gaol, Wicklow Town, Saturday October 9th starting at 11am
Handmade Crafts and Art Exhibition and demo’s – Glendalough Hotel, Function Room – Saturday October 23rd, 11-4pm call 0404 45600
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