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  • Book Review: Making Winter By Emma Mitchell

    Book Review: Making Winter By Emma Mitchell

    January 21, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog

    I think being a homebody is one of the reasons why I like sewing and making things. With this being the case, it probably comes as no surprise that I like books and reading just as much! My funny old house is stuffed full of books. Looking at…

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  • Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: How to Use a Zip Foot

    Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: How to Use a Zip Foot

    January 15, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Hopefully by now you have a good understanding of how your sewing machine works and how to use it. Now we’re going to move on to using some of the different feet that your sewing machine might have come with. If your sewing machine only has one foot,…

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  • DIY Hand Warmer Heat Pack

    DIY Hand Warmer Heat Pack

    January 7, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Gentle Projects

    Having a DIY hand warmer heat pack in your pocket when it is cold is like a little treat. One of the reasons why I like to have a cup of tea while I’m out is so that I can warm my hands on it! Carrying a cup…

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  • Some Thoughts on the Darkest Time of the Year

    Some Thoughts on the Darkest Time of the Year

    January 4, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Thoughts and Reflections
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    I actually quite like winter, but I know a lot of people don’t. It’s easy to see why. When I worked outside of the home in a conventional job, one of the worst things was leaving home in the dark, then leaving work in the dark. For a…

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  • DIY Felt Bauble Decorations

    DIY Felt Bauble Decorations

    December 3, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    These felt bauble decorations are easy to make and are a great way to use up smaller pieces of felt and scraps of ribbon. Use the instructions below to make the one in the picture, or be creative and use what you have already to make something that’s…

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  • Thoughts on Being Thankful

    Thoughts on Being Thankful

    November 26, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Thoughts and Reflections
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    Thanksgiving is this week, although being an English girl I don’t celebrate it. Our November holiday is Guy Fawkes, also known as Bonfire night, which involves setting off fireworks and eating toffee apples. When I was a little girl, it was usual for children to make a person…

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Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child? T Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child?

The theme in April's Wild Blossom Companion is reflections. Sometimes our hands want to do something creative but we don't know what, and the Wild Blossom Companion has ideas of things to do within a theme.

I started off combining butterfly paintings with landscapes, and as I often find with anything literal I felt a bit anxious about whether what I was doing was any good. But that's kind of not the point! It's supposed to be playful exploration, not something that makes stress and anxiety worse! Plus the acrylic paint stuck on one of them and the paper tore.

So I gave that up and just blobbed paint onto the paper instead.

I think they look more like bunches of flowers then butterflies πŸ’what do you think?

And yes, I somehow managed to forget that phone needed to be the other way round! 🀦🀷πŸ€ͺ

#creativelife #painting #printing #spring #flowers
Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’– April is a pink mont Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’–

April is a pink month, with  cherry and apple  blossom. There are also lots of new leaves, and spring sunlight makes them appear even greener 🌱

#wildblossomlife #colourschemes #colourpalettes #springcolours #blossom
I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from Alison from @brocantehome, in which she says that if there is ever any doubt, to look at our hands, see what is in them and tend to that. 

There is a lot in the world that is bad. Sometimes there are things closer that are not that great either. We're encouraged to be inspired by people who do huge things, fly to the moon and whatnot, but there is a lot to be said for holding onto the knowledge that our grandmothers and great grandmothers lived through difficult times, in the middle of them, and still looked after their families, cooked meals and washed up, grew tomatoes, made doctors' appointments, wrote in their diaries, drew, painted, knitted. Admired the flowers in their neighbour's garden. Marvelled at the blossom, or the autumn leaves. Hoped it would rain, or stop raining. At the same time as worrying about loved ones far away. Not because one mattered more than the other, but because they both did.

In my hands today, home education for my dyslexic boy, cats, meals, laundry and washing up. Peculiar things to make out of pieces of old shoe for my textiles degree. And blossom, lots of it 🌸🌸🌸

What is in your hands?

#wildblossomlife #spring #blossom #tendwhatmatters #gentlerhythms
Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞 They are ever Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞

They are everywhere now. The hedgerows are coming green. There is lots of blossom. New buds are appearing on the trees and starting to open. The sun was warm today and the birds were singing πŸ’–πŸ¦β€β¬›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
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