Vlogmas 2024 with Helen: Day 14 |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to Vlogmas 2024 with Helen. I have some little treats each day for you to watch and enjoy - and a little chat from me, too!
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Thank you, Helen. I loved the little furniture which looked cleverly constructed and the Christmas poems make one feel joyful.
Thank you, Sue - I've been having a lovely time making furniture! xx
Albion Christmas Band have a song about a Christmas tree entitled ‘I love this time of year’ from their snow on snow album. You can listen to it here on TH-cam.
That dinky furniture is just adorable. Cheering you on to the finish line Helen as we’re dying to see the end result 🙂. Once a teacher always a teacher. I bet your classroom displays and planned activities for those youngsters in your care were a real blessing to that school community. Thank you Helen for sharing your love of craft, nature, poetry and your travels xxx
Thank you for the recommendation of the song - I've now listened to it, and love it! And you're right - once a teacher, always a teacher - I just can't stop myself from passing on interesting information! xx
Awe, the squirrel story ❤ You are doing a wonderful job making your daily Vlogmas episodes. I know how time consuming it is 😊 Tinsel Squirrel. Also I could watch you making felt furniture for hours! 😊 Take care xx
Thank you Lilly - I'm glad you enjoyed hearing about Scrappy the squirrel - and thank you for the name suggestion for my squirrel! I think there will be a lot more furniture-making videos to come because there is no way I'll have time to make everything that I'd like to by the end of vlogmas!! xx
Sigh. Helen, I love the musicality of the first poem. And the second is a favorite. The image of the little tree reaching up to hold the Christmas baubles is delightful. The seven-year-old in me squirmed in delight with the doll furniture! All the pieces are so adorable.
Thank you Linda - I'm so glad that you appreciated today's poems, too! And that watching the furniture-making gave you happy feelings! xx
That was a very special story about scrappy. We share our world. Don't get too tired.
Thank you, Jessie. I'm glad you enjoyed hearing about Scrappy! xx
Good morning Helen, you are very industrious making your gorgeous furniture. I too love your poems. Thankyou for another joyful tea break❤
Thank you, Barbara - I'm very glad you enjoyed today's video! xx
Such a heart warming episode, Helen. Those poems touch all the tender nostalgic spots, don't they? I'm not surprised you adore the last one... Considering how you get wool and knit it and shape it and bring it to life, no wonder you enjoy the little Christmas tree being addressed as a little character❤
I could sit and watch you sew felt furniture all day long - especially if you played such sweet music as accompanied the video today🎶💓 Thank you. Have a happy Saturday💞
Thank you, Shirley. I'm so glad you enjoyed today's poems - as well as watching me making furniture. I think the furniture-making will be continuing into the new year...!!! xx
Good morning Helen , it was lovely to hear about the little squirrel taken in to be looked after . I think the furniture for the big project is wonderful , I love how you can see the detail so much on the mattress . I can see why you love the story about the Christmas tree , I could imagine the two children standing looking at the tree 🌲 . Thankyou Helen 😊
It was a lovely story about Scrappy the squirrel, wasn't it? Thank you Wendy! xx
Hello Helen... The first tree in the green wood...how that brought back memories..had a tear in my eye there..reminded me of my Mother...those small pieces of furniture are beautiful..☘️❤️
Hi Megan - I'm glad to have brought back a happy memory! Thank you xx
Thanks for the snowy walk and poems.
Thank you Denise - you are very welcome! x
Thanks Helen for all your hard work, it's much appreciated! Xx
Thank you - I am very happy to be sharing my endeavours! xx
Thank you, Helen. I hope you don't get stressed out with everything. x
Thank you Pamela - I am doing my best to stay calm and to continue to enjoy my rather full days! xx
What a lovely poem Helen. ❤️🌺
I'm glad you enjoyed it - thanks Lenore! xx
Thank you Helen, your gentle start to my day sets me up with joy in my heart! X
Aww, thank you so much, Grace! x
I love the furniture, soft and comfy. I have to admit The Little Tree brought a tear to my eye. I still have mixed feelings about using live trees. I haven't for years. But I loved them as a child. And, yes, I talk to my plants🤣
Thank you Trudy. Like you, we would always have a live tree for our Christmas tree. But I enjoy using an artificial tree these days - I'm glad you loved the poem, little tree. xx
Thank you again. The furniture making was so restful to watch and I enjoyed the piano accompaniment. So pleased you shared the true tale of Scrappy with us... I read that particular comment and found it heartwarming. Both poems were brilliant and the e.e cummings was delightfully childlike. (You made me laugh straight off with the reference to apostrophe crime...once an English teacher, always an English teacher...and I find myself aghast about punctuation and grammar travesties).Enjoy being on the home stretch with your big project, Helen.🥰🐿🎄
Thank you Helen. The story about Scrappy was so lovely! I'm glad you're with me on the apostrophe crime - I am very intolerant of such errors! 😂😂💕
Absolutely beautiful video Helen… you take such a lot of time and care setting them up.. really appreciate it.. so lovely to watch 🎄
Thank you, Miriam, for your kind appreciation! xx
Helen I loved watching you making the furniture it came together brilliantly and the poems were so lovely it was easy to close my eyes and use my imagination,thankyou ❤❤
Thank you Elaine - you are very welcome! xx
Hi Helen, I do enjoy your morning chats. The furniture for the big project is so cute and well put together. I shall think of the little tree poem when I put my Christmas tree up today (although I have an artificial tree). Take care 🎄🐿️🧶❤️
Thank you Andrea! I hope you have enjoyed putting up your tree today - mine is an artificial one, too. xx
Helen, You are truly amazing and so talented ! I am really enjoying Vlogmas with you, you always have such interesting things to share with us. I just love the story about the squirrel and that it went ‘home’ again was very special. Thank you once again. Keep warm 💕 Colleen
Thank you so much, Colleen! I'm very glad that you're enjoying popping in to visit me each day! xx
Another happy vlog, thank you Helen. I enjoyed seeing you sew the tiny felt furniture for your big project. I have been working in felt making The Twelve Days of Christmas decorations. I have just started the Milk Maid and then I have the ring to sew. The race is on to get them finished before Christmas! See you tomorrow Helen. ❤
Thanks, Margaret. I just love working with felt and it's good to know that you do, too! Good luck with getting your Twelve Days project finished by Christmas! xx
Helen, you are heroic for creating vlogmas for us every day during such a busy season. Your big project is incredible! I love the furniture, every piece is a work of art and, I’m sure, sore fingers! I’m so enjoying it. Thank you. X
Aww thank you Pam. Once I set myself a challenge, I am always determined to stick to it! xx
@ I’m like that too! X
Helen I love all of the Advent Calendar animals inspired me to make one each for my great nephews and great nieces for their Christmas Trees. Hope you’re enjoying the season. Thank you for adding happiness to my season
@@gingermolinero8386 Thank you! It sounds as though you have a project to keep you busy for a while! xx
The furniture for your big project is adorable so the question now will be " who lives in a house like this ? " I think of the sqirrel as Hazel ! 😊❤
Thank you Judith! Hazel is an excellent name for a squirrel - although I do have a knitted squirrel whose name is Hazel so I might need an alternative name... xx
Hi Helen, the furniture looks great, what painstaking care to make it just right. Beautifully read poems 🤩
@@Izzyic7505 Thanks Isabel! xx
Hello Helen, this is ny far the best yet,, little videos are getting better and better. Absolutely well done, you are quite amazing 💕💕
Thank you so much, Susan! xx
Oh Helen, this has to be my favourite episode yet. Packed full with interesting things. As for the furniture, it’s adorable. My you are so so clever, is there anything you can not do? Lovely poems to finish.xxxx
Thank you Sue! I'm so glad you enjoyed today's offerings! xx
I think she looks like a madge.Love the story of the squirrel.My friend rescued a dove and gave it me to release in an open field the experience of letting it go will stay with me forever.xxx🐝🐝🐝
Oh, I do like that name! What a wonderful memory of releasing the healed dove! xxx
Thank you for sharing your Scandinavian Santa! Looked it up and it will make nice little gifts. 🥰
@@debba1497 Thank you - it's a lovely little pattern! x
What a lovely story about Scrappy the squirrel! Your tree poem was very apt as my daughter usually sends flowers in the post from a company that delivers in long brown postal boxes. When I received it this year, I was surprised and delighted to find a little rooted Christmas tree! I had to plant it with the compost provided in a little red velvet pot and there were even lights, bells and baubles to decorate it! A magical gift I thought! X
How lovely to receive a little rooted tree through the post! And with the decorations to add, too! Thanks Heather xx
I was excited to see that the little nordic santa was knitted flat! As you say - the perfect chance to try colourwork for the first time. I'd love to learn how to do colourwork, but would be daunted by a sweater project. Perhaps I'll check out this pattern😍
It's an excellent little pattern, and really helpful that it's knitted flat! xx
Well done making the furniture for 'the big project' it looks quite fiddly to sew especially some of the items with the narrow borders! xx
Thank you, Lin. Yes, it was a bit fiddly in places! xx
Thank you so much for your lovely vlogmas series!❤ I am making Gnana, imagined landscapes mystery gnome. I got her a mushroom house (like yours) and now I know how to furnish it! Thank you once again for the inspiration 😊😊
@@Kathy-ml6yu Thank you Kathy - you are welcome. I love the Sarah Schira gnomes! Your Gnanna is very lucky to have her own home! xx
Hello Helen! The furniture is adorable! You did a great job on them and I look forward to seeing how this project comes together (but no rush, it's okay to finish later) 🧡
Thank you so much! And of course, it can definitely be a continuing project (I'm never going to manage finishing all of the furniture that I want to make, before Christmas!) xx
@mousiemakespod I like projects of endless possibilities that you can start over with a new style of something and enjoy making it all over again 🧡
@@AntisocialAuntie Yes, these open-ended projects are so enjoyable! x
Hello Helen, what a lovely story about Scrappy the squirrel and how wonderful that he made a full recovery and was able to be released back into his own environment. The furniture you have made is beautiful. The first piece of music you played brought back so many memories. I can’t remember the name of it but there was a pigeon, and the last verse was about a dove. I will definitely be googling it. Thank you Helen and take care ❤❤
Thank you! The piece of music that you liked is one of my favourite carols, called The Birds. I'm glad you enjoyed hearing about Scrappy the squirrel! xx
@@mousiemakespod I remember now It is a beautiful carol and the music and words are beautiful too ❤️
@ I just love singing it, especially the bird sounds!
Wish my fingers could make those tiny animals in your advent calendar so lovely 😊
Aww, thank you! xx
Thank you for sharing the story of our Scrappy today. Scrappy was spoiled indeed! I’m sure he loved life at my parents’ house. Best of all though, is that when my mother took him back to the park he very happily went off with other squirrels while my mother was having her “farewell” picnic at the same table as the one when he found her. We had a menagerie of temporary animal house guests. There were any number of hummingbirds who had accidentally flown against the windows, a robin or two, and even a skunk wo did stay outside in a special large cage with the door open. We once had two lesser goldfinches that had fallen out of a nest. The brother and sister lived happily in a large birdcage inside at night and outside near their old next with the door open during the day. I do remember my mother calling me in a panic the day that the female flew off and didn’t come back to the cage that night with her brother. Some time later Petey flew off and didn’t return. For at least two years afterwards when the gold finches came back around one little male (Petey we assumed) and a female would come back and actually look for my mother to come out. The female always remained shy, but Petey (we assumed) would fly around my mother until she would get his little special bowl with the little black seeds my mother bought especially for the goldfinches and sit on my mother’s finger to eat out of the bowl. That went on for several years. It was a sad year, indeed, when the goldfinches came back but Petey wasn’t among them. Such fond memories. Until tomorrow. Peace and joy
@@lindashields5939 Awww Linda! Such lovely tales you have and fond memories! Thank you so much for sharing them with us! xx
Hi Helen, since I found your wonderful friendly podcasts, I went back to the very beginning. I've now caught right upI'm always enjoy your podcasts, and I'm pleased to say. Love watching your daily Christmas shows.
This will be a hard Christmas for me, as my darling husband passed away unexpectecly a couple of weeks ago. I never knew the pain of missing him would be so hard to cope with.
Jenny from New Zealand
I’m so sorry for your loss Jenny. ❤ Michelle from Australia
Thank you so much, Jenny, for taking the time to leave me a lovely comment. I send you my very deepest sympathies and warmest hugs as you make your way through this sad time following the loss of your dear husband. 🤗💕
Gosh dear Helen- your Big Project is coming along so nicely- looking like a very cosy home for??? Our weather is warming up here in Tasmania-we’re looking at 30 degrees tomorrow- shall leave baking until Tuesday when it’s going to rain ☔️ off to my knitting group this afternoon with a Secret Santa gift and Cranberry and Pistachio Slice for afternoon tea- packed on ice in my cooler bag 🤪
Thanks Elizabeth! It won't be too long before you meet the residents of the cosy house! I hope you enjoyed your knitting group - I'm sure the Cranberry and Pistachio slice was delicious! xx
@ yes it was great fun Helen- but I forgot to mention the most important ingredient in the slice- it’s CHOCOLATE 🍫
@ Oooo yummy! And glad you had a fun time! x
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Thank you Dora! x
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Good morning ❤ thanks for sharing the squirrel story,i watch on the tv so often dont read comments x that was one lucky scrappy squirrell.taking on rescues can be addictive ha we took on 1rescue cat 8 years ago and now have 8cats 5of which were rescues that never left.oh i tried knitting many times and i just cant get it.i have started to learn to crochet but its a slow process,your creations inspire me and i think…..one day 😊😂 i have managed a little stripy blanket for my daughter x see you tomorow
Thank you Helen. How lovely that you are one of the kind people in the world who rescues animals - and amazing that you now have 8 cats! 😂 I am certain that if you keep practising, you will become very confident with crocheting things! xx
Good morning Helen your felt furniture is fantastic oh I love it. Helen I loved the story about the little squirrel yes I can relate I've got a fox that I helped gosh years ago with a nasty cut on it's side. She still visits every night along with 5 hedgehogs who have there own manor lol in my garden. 10pm every night there waiting at the back door for there cat food lol x
Hi Michelle, and thank you! How lovely that you have a friendly fox and hedgehogs that like to visit you and spend time in your garden! x
Lovely catching up with you after a long day. Loved hearing the squirrel story. Andy's dad rescued birds and nurtured them back to health.
Goodness, the felt furniture is adorable. What kind of thread do you use to sew the felt?
Beautiful simple poetry.
Have a restful evening. Xx
Thank you Angela. People who rescue animals are very special indeed. For the furniture I just use standard Gutermann thread. Rest well after your busy weekend! xx
Hello Helen, I’ve just been watching a (red) squirrel in our back garden, his tail was beautifully bushy, the same colour as his body with a white underneath, so maybe we’re wrong about your little animal. The detail you put into everything you make just blows me away. My Big Make for 2025 is a colour work hot water bottle cover. I might be asking for help! 😂☺️ Thanks Helen for a lovely video. Xx
How lovely to be watching a red squirrel in your back garden! I have been inspired to do a little research on squirrels to share with you tomorrow! Good luck with your hot water bottle cover - I will always be happy to help! Thank you Carolyn xx
As an editor I did indeed gasp at the apostrophe mistake, which was surprising considering the first apostrophe was used correctly! 😁
@@heatherf833 I was intrigued by that, too!! xx
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Thank you Jan xx
Your furniture is beautiful! I really like how the stitches give texture to the edges.
I'm surprised you haven't named the squirrel, you always seem to give just the right character with the naming of your toys. I really liked the name Hazel as suggested below but I seem to recall you might already have a Hazel. I always enjoy an alliteration, like Sally Squirrel. But something botanical is always a go to for me and animals. Maybe Sage or Sequoia, or Sunshine. Or Petunia, obviously not an alliteration but cute.
So hearing the squirrel in the house story gives me nightmares as my brain goes to the wholesale destruction of a wild squirrel being chased around the house by three kittens. we have plenty of squirrels here and I always keep an eye out for them when i open my front door to bring in firewood. But how cute would it be to make little houses and hide acorns.
See you tomorrow. (I love your blue top, one of my favorite colors).
Thank you, Karen! I love your name suggestions for the poor as-yet nameless squirrel! (You're right, I do already have a Hazel!) I can imagine that a squirrel in the house along with three kittens would not be the best combination! And thank you - I love that blue top. See you tomorrow! xx
hi helen... a strange technicality... youtube seem to have taken away the thumbs-up picture, and only the numbers register... the thumbs down graphic is still there, but the cheery yesness of positive feedback now lacks any pictorial representation...it has been like that for all the you-tube videos i have watched today...???
@@heatherallan9767 Oh dear! That is a bit of a nuisance! I hope TH-cam sorts it out soon. x