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New 'Kat Make' tutorial on Calico craft parts blog page.

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My newest 'Kat Make' tutorial is now on Calico craft parts blog page.  If you fancy a look please visit Calico Craft Parts link below where you will find links to products and full detailed instructions on how to make these two seafaring projects. I hope you all like😊 🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚🐙🐚 I am currently working on February's projects coming soon.......    http://calicocraftparts.blogspot.com/2022/01/sailors-valentine-and-octopuss-garden

⭐Catch a falling star! ⭐ ✨

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  ✨⭐⭐Please visit my crafting blog 'kraftingwithkat' to learn how to make these pretty stars ⭐⭐✨  https://kraftingwithkat.blogspot.com/2022/01/catch-falling-star

Witchcraft pamphlet: A Rehearsal both Strange and True, 1579

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  Image from the British Library in the public domain.  This item is an English witchcraft pamphlet from 1579. After a preface to the reader condemning the practice of witchcraft and advising the avoidance and prosecution of witches, the pamphlet gives an account of the doings of Elizabeth Stile – a 65-year-old Windsor woman accused of witchcraft – and three other women (Mothers Dutten, Deuell and Margaret), based on Stile’s confession in jail. To see the complete pamphlet please visit the link below.  https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/witchcraft-pamphlet-a-rehearsal-both-strange-and-true-1579

Witches on English Heritage's website.

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A woodcut depicting Frau Perchta, based on a 1486 manuscript of ‘Flowers of Virtue’ by the Austrian poet Hans Vintler from English Heritage website.  Found a fab insight into Witches and Witchcraft on English Heritage's website in an article called 'A Journey into Witchcraft Beliefs'. Please visit link below.    https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs/

The coming of spring new article for Calico Craft Parts

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Please visit Calico Craft Parts blog page for my new 'Kat Make' The coming of Spring! http://calicocraftparts.blogspot.com.

Magical books

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Found this fab article online  40 Witch Books That Belong on Your Bookshelf They’ll put a spell on you. by  ERIKA W. SMITH    SEP 8, 2021 Please visit this link 🔗 to read.  https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/g33972016/best-witch-books/

Happy New Year.

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Happy New Year everyone. As I type its the 8th of January already! What happened to Christmas it's whizzed by so quickly(laughing) Well even though I am slow to wish everyone a new year and probably still be eating mince pies till February I have managed to get on with a couple of 'Kat Makes' for Calico Craft Parts blog page which will be featured on the 13th and 27th of January. I will of course add links on the days. But if you fancy visiting Calico Craft Parts shop and blog page please visit  https://www.calicocraftparts.co.uk/ What will this year hold? We'll I am hoping, covid allowing, to get back out on the road this year to do some visits to interesting places to blog about. Nothing nicer than packing some sandwiches, going on an adventure to visit a castle, see a magical place or admire an ancient monolithic. We have so many interesting places to visit in the UK even at my advancing age there are thousands of places I have never been too. I have a very long to d...