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  • Leaf Rubbings Revisited

    Leaf Rubbings Revisited

    November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 Creative Invitations, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons

    It goes without saying that beautiful leaves are one of the best things about autumn. In recent years, I’ve noticed that no two years are the same. This year, there has been a lot of yellow. In other years, there have been more reds, and in others more…

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  • Making a Colour Palette For October

    Making a Colour Palette For October

    October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 Colour Palettes, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons

    One of the things that those of us who love autumn cherish most is the colours. October is a particularly colourful autumn month. Early September is really still late summer here, and by the end of November, most of the leaves are gone. October, sitting in the middle,…

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  • Creative Invitations For Autumn

    Creative Invitations For Autumn

    October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons
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    Why I Love Autumn For some of us, autumn is the time of year when we feel most creative. Although having just written that, I could say it about any time of year! Autumn is the year’s crowning glory. The growing season is pretty much over. Flowers have…

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  • Apples Colour Scheme and Creative Invitations

    Apples Colour Scheme and Creative Invitations

    September 21, 2025September 21, 2025 Colour Palettes, Creative Invitations, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons

    Apples are one of those things that really say September. I am finding that getting outside and paying attention to what is going on in nature helps me to be much more aware of cycles and seasons. Apple blossoms appear in the spring, then as summer rounds the…

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  • Soundscapes and House Martins

    Soundscapes and House Martins

    September 14, 2025September 14, 2025 Blog, Gentle Projects, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons

    One of the things I really love about where I live is the nests under the eaves of my house. We live in a large village in the Norfolk fens, a few miles from King’s Lynn. It’s quite rural but we’re not completely out in the country. Having…

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  • Late Summer Thoughts

    Late Summer Thoughts

    September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 Blog, Living a Creative Life, Nature and Seasons, Thoughts and Reflections
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    Summer isn’t my favourite season. For many people it is, and it’s not that I dislike it. I can see why it is so loved: the long days and warm weather, holidays and family time, the ease of slipping on a light dress instead of bundling into thermals,…

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I know for some people, when 1st December arrives I know for some people, when 1st December arrives they want to feel ready for Christmas, to have all their decorations up and the presents at least under control if not completely sorted out.

I don't do it like that. Partly because I don't think I could ever be that organised! I used to mind that I wasn't, but now I don't. Also because I see December as the time to start things moving, not the time to have everything ready straight away. I love the idea of Advent, and I want to enjoy it, without throwing myself straight into Christmas.

Christmas can be brought in gradually. 

One of the songs currently playing inside my head is "People Look East" by Eleanor Farjeon, who incidentally also wrote "Morning has Broken". It's about preparing and making ready.

Feeling in that kind of mood today, I made the Christmas cake. A family recipe dating from 1979, in pounds and ounces, and with instructions to clean the fruit, feels comforting, especially when so much of modern Christmas seems to involve overconsumption of mass produced tat and cakes wrapped up in plastic that taste like playdoh.

These things can make the season feel mildly depressing , like a grey overlay over something that ought to make us feel good. It doesn't have to be like that. A hard no to playdoh flavoured cakes!

I've also gathered some bits to make a foraged wreath (being a terrible gardener has paid off again!), and went for a walk in the last of today's sunshine.

#December #wildblossomlife #advent #christmascake #slowdecember
2 things from today 💖 The first is a tree outs 2 things from today 💖

The first is a tree outside the co op in my village. It is a treat all year round, and it makes me feel a little bit warmer knowing that those berries are going to keep some little birds going this winter.

The second is a ball of yarn I have been making over a few days, from cotton, and tissue paper from a present.

Special things can be found in the ordinary 💖🐦‍⬛🧶

#wildblossomlife #winter #berries #paperyarn #slowingdownabit
This morning my 16 year old peered out of the wind This morning my 16 year old peered out of the window and remarked that it wasn't really light yet! 

It has been a grey, drizzly day. My youngest boy and I went out for a short walk, and I noticed the beautiful holly tree in somebody's garden, all glossy leaves and bright berries.

Before lunch, we made our Advent candle. We've been making our own from beeswax sheets for a few years now. It felt like the perfect thing to do on a gloomy day.

We lit it at dinner time, in amongst the usual mess and homework. 

#wildblossomlife #advent #adventcandle #slowdecember #ordinarydays
A rowan tree 🍂🧡 The rowan is one of my favo A rowan tree 🍂🧡

The rowan is one of my favourite trees. There's a song about it, and it always makes me think of Quickbeam the Ent  in Lord of the Rings, who every time he saw a rowan tree, would lift his tree arms and sway towards it. 

One year I made rowan jelly from the berries. It was a beautiful shade of orange and it tasted like nice marmalade.

There are lots of berries still on this one, and the  leaves are brown and gold. 

Even though it feels like winter now, there are still little bits of autumn hanging on. And it's nice to think that there is food for the birds there 🧡🐦‍⬛

#wildblossomlife #november #rowantree #creativelife #slowdownandlook
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