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Having hobbies and interests is great for health and wellbeing. Finding activities that we enjoy keeps us occupied, stimulated, entertained and challenged, and gives us a sense of purpose and satisfaction, particularly if we improve at something over time. At the Virtual Village Hall, you’ll find a wide range of activities to try, most of them designed for complete beginners, including regular courses.

 

 

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Main Image: a bulb of garlic sprouting, ready to be grown indoors, on a light green background

Allotment Diaries Part 17 – How to Grow Garlic Indoors & Make an Outdoor Stove

The Allotment Diaries Episode 17

Main image: Snow at Argenteuil" 1875. By Claude Monet. A winter snow scene, with trees, houses in the background and a snowy road with a person walking along.

Artist in Focus: How to Paint Winter Snow Scenes

Main image: "Among the Firs" by Canadian artist Emily Carr - an expressive painting of fir tress, with greens, browns and blues.

Artist in Focus: Emily Carr

Main image: 'Composition', painted by Piet Mondrian in 1921. A variety of blue red and yellow rectangles, with bold black lines.

Artist in Focus: Piet Mondrian

Main image: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 by JMW Turner, a depiction of the fire see from afar, with blues and bright oranges for the flames.

Artist in Focus: J.M.W Turner

Main Image: "The Codomas" 1946 collage by 20th-century French Artist Henri Matisse. A collage of bright abstract shapes and colours.

Artist in Focus: Henri Matisse

Main image: Painterly Architectonic - art piece by Lyubov Popova, a mix of geometric shapes in bright colours - inspired by the cubism movement.

Artist in Focus: Lyubov Popova

Main Image: A Renaissance artist's sketch of a woman looking down, on white paper with black/grey pencil.

Artist in Focus: Renaissance Artist Sketches

Main Image; Beautiful bas-relief art work by artist and ceramicist, Mary Seton Watts, aka Mary Seton (Fraser) Tytler.

Artist in Focus: Mary Seton Watts

Main image: mini macrame Christmas treed, DIY Christmas Ornaments in pink and blue macrame cord.

Mini Macrame Christmas Trees

Main image: polymer clay canes, in multicolours, with a flower type pattern (or millefiori patterns) used for making jewellery pendants, for earrings, necklaces, keyrings and more.

How to Make Polymer Clay Canes

Main image: an eco friendly, foraged Christmas wreath, with holly, foliage and red berries, on a pale green door.

Eco-Friendly Christmas Wreath Making Tutorial

Main Image: Black lettering and floral illustrations on white paper letters

Handmade Christmas Letter: Victorian Letterlocking

Main image: cute handmade Christmas card with three adorable reindeers faces on the front.

Make Cute Handmade Christmas Cards

Main image: a homemade modern weaved stool, in a black and white geometric pattern.

Modern Stool Weaving Techniques