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  • 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 11

    November 12, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog

    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 11 Welcome to Day 11 of The 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges! The challenge today is to make a healthy Christmas snack using food that you have in already. Here’s Jill with the challenge. Have a look at the links…

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    How to Sew Slippers

    November 11, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Sew Slippers Recently I was sent some Christmas fabric by Overdale Fabrics. I used 2 out of the 4 fat quarters to make a Christmas present cushion, but I still had some fabric left over. My boys were very keen on the idea of having some…

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  • 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 10

    November 11, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog

    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 10 It’s Day 10 of The 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges! The challenge today is to make a small, stocking filler kind of gift from fabric scraps. Here’s Jill with the challenge! So what have you made? Link up below!…

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    Easy Christmas Table Decoration

    November 10, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Easy Christmas Table Decoration This is my response to the 7th challenge of 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenge. The challenge was to make a Christmas decoration using stuff found outside. The greenery I used was from my neighbour’s hedge, the berries were from the hedgerows and the…

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  • 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 9

    November 10, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog

    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 9 Welcome to Day 9 of the 12 Days of Christmas Challenges! Today’s challenge is to use something you already have to make something to wear for Christmas. This could be a clothes upcycle, or you could make jewellery or some…

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  • 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 8

    November 9, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog

    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 8 Welcome to Day 8 of The 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges! Today’s challenge is to turn old crisp packets into Christmas decorations. Here’s Jill introducing the challenge. If you try this, we’d love to see what you make! Please…

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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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