Woolywoodshop

17/10/2026

Sometimes, I just need to take a day and paint something for me. 🎨🐉
Most of the time, I’m painting to a brief — windows for someone else, murals, community projects, workshops, seasonal pieces, something a child has asked for, something that needs to fit a space or tell a particular story.
And I love all of that.
But every now and then, I need to make something with no brief, no deadline, no client, no reason other than “I want to paint this.”
So today I did exactly that.
A dragon.
Lots of purple.
Lots of blue.
A bit of teal and aqua.
Metallic acrylics layered slowly over the day.
And absolutely no plan beyond following what felt right as I went. 😁
One of my favourite things about painting windows is actually seeing them from the inside. There are really two sides to every painting — the outside view, and then the completely different effect you get from indoors when the daylight shines through the glass.
That’s when all those thinner layers, metallics and little transparent gaps start to glow, and the whole thing gets this gorgeous stained-glass effect. ❤️
It was really nice to just get lost in the details for a while — adding scales, horns, shadows, colour, tiny highlights… and not having to think about whether anyone else would like it.
Sometimes creativity doesn’t need to be productive.
Sometimes it just needs to be yours. ❤️
And I think I needed that today.

11/10/2026

😅🤯😴 busy busy week!

11/10/2026

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want to say a big thank you to sophie and woody wood shop in Stockton for doing my car for the remembrance day thank you so much can't wait for the Christmas theme

08/10/2026

A new, free to attend group :)

🎨 NEW — Movement Disorders Arts & Crafts Group - FREE TO ATTEND 🎨

We’re opening up our Tuesday creative sessions to people living with Parkinson’s and other movement disorders. 💛

These are relaxed, friendly sessions with plenty of time to chat, create, learn something new and work at your own pace. No need to be “good at art” — the whole point is to come along, have a go and enjoy yourself.
Across the programme we’ll be trying everything from doodling and off-loom weaving to Kinusaiga, dot art, book folding, Sashiko stitching and Christmas crafts.

📅 Tuesdays
🕙 10am–12pm
📍 Creative Chaos CIC, 5 Norton Road, TS18 2BW
💻 Book online at www.creativechaoscic.co.uk
This group forms part of our 500 Connections programme, which is part-funded by Tees Millions. ❤️
If you, a family member, friend or someone you support lives with a movement disorder and fancies a couple of hours of creativity and good company each week, we’d love to have you.
Places can be booked online now.

07/10/2026

04/10/2026

02/10/2026

WE’RE BACK 😁🎨
After an absolutely manic summer holidays, The Wooly Wood Shop and Creative Chaos CIC took September to recover, regroup and get a few very important things sorted behind the scenes…
And somehow “taking a quieter month” turned into:
🏠 Setting up Creative Chaos CIC HQ
🧠 Building our own Wooly evidence-gathering system so we can properly capture the photos, feedback, voice notes and impact from our community projects
💻 Bringing The Wooly Wood Shop and Creative Chaos CIC systems together so everything works much more smoothly behind the scenes
📅 Creating a proper online booking system — no more trying to keep track of bookings through comments, messages, scraps of paper and Sophie’s brain 😂
💌 Setting up automatic booking confirmations and reminders
🎨 And securing funding to bring you more affordable and funded creative workshops
So after a month of building, organising, testing, breaking things, fixing things and drinking far too much coffee…
WE ARE BACK. 😁😁😁
Over the next few days we’ll be adding new workshops and activities from both The Wooly Wood Shop and Creative Chaos CIC, including funded community sessions, family activities, workshops and plenty of our usual Creative Chaos nonsense.
You’ll now be able to see what’s coming up, book your places properly and get all the details straight to your inbox. 🎉
Thank you for bearing with us while we got everything ready. The summer was incredible, September was very much needed… and we are ridiculously excited about what’s coming next.
The Wooly Wood Shop and Creative Chaos CIC are officially back. 🦣🎨💚
Keep an eye on the page — bookings are opening very soon! 👀

27/09/2026

This weeks link for the Free Zoom meeting is here, and in the comments!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84599103931?pwd=ExoLouL2CBgX1zeLUkygq2NlX1mQSx.1

when? 6-8pm, every Monday evening, uk time!
where? wherever you are! Bed? blankets? snacktime? all good. cameras on or off, microphones on or off, its your choice.

These crafty social zoom sessions are aimed towards people who struggle to get to in-person sessions, whether you have a busy family life, are anxious, or housebound and struggle to leave your house, and they are COMPLETELY FREE.

feel free to tag, share the post or the link to anyone who might benefit or enjoy

20/09/2026

CANCELLED DUE TO MY NEED TO SLEEP 😌🥱

This weeks link for the Free Zoom meeting is here, and in the comments!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84599103931?pwd=ExoLouL2CBgX1zeLUkygq2NlX1mQSx.1

when? 6-8pm, every Monday evening, uk time!
where? wherever you are! Bed? blankets? snacktime? all good. cameras on or off, microphones on or off, its your choice.

These crafty social zoom sessions are aimed towards people who struggle to get to in-person sessions, whether you have a busy family life, are anxious, or housebound and struggle to leave your house, and they are COMPLETELY FREE.

feel free to tag, share the post or the link to anyone who might benefit or enjoy