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    How to Make a Circle Skirt

    May 11, 2015May 27, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    When I posted about my Cherry Blossom Dress, a couple of the people who were kind enough to leave me comments said that although they didn’t feel ready to try to make a whole dress, just making a circle skirt might be more achievable. Circle skirts are fab….

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    A Guide to Pattern Pieces

    May 7, 2015May 27, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Making your own clothes without a pattern can be a lot of fun. It always feels amazing to wear something that you have designed yourself and that fits as well as having chosen the fabric and made it up it yourself. This is something I have done a number of times…

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    How to Make a Fridge Notice Board

    May 4, 2015March 13, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    This was my fridge. Every time the boys came home from school or an activity with a letter, it went on the fridge. Every time we got a notice about bin collections or a dentist appointment or a money off voucher, it went on the fridge. The fridge…

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    Making Artists’ Trading Cards

    April 29, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Over the last few days I have been using my watching-tv-hands-needing-something-to-do-time to make some artists’ trading cards. These are for a swap being organised by Vicky at Lucy Blossom Crafts. As I have never made ATCs before, and being anxious to get it right, I checked the internet to…

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    A Felted Fenland Landscape

    April 25, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    One of the reasons I wanted to take up wet felting was because I felt (haha!) that the fenland landscape round here would lend itself well to the process. Because it is so flat around here, you can see for miles, and the fields give a kind of…

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    The Value of Handmade

    April 20, 2015March 13, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    One of the difficulties that crafters face is how to price their work fairly. Nobody wants to undercharge, especially if it means selling things at a loss, but nobody wants to ask too much either and put customers off as a result. In my experience, crafters tend towards asking…

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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
November 🍂 Storm Claudia blew most of the leav November 🍂

Storm Claudia blew most of the leaves off the trees last week. There are still some, but lots of them have gone now. The berries are very visible, lots of hawthorns and still some rowan berries.

Everywhere is muddy! Big piles of sugar beet have been slowly disappearing, and all the rain has made the footpaths squishy.

If I go out at 4.30 pm to get milk or cat food or bits for tea, it's dark and my reaction is "bleugghh!" But I actually quite like it. It's nice to get back home to my cosy little house with my boys and my cats.

It is tempting to dislike November but I quite like it. What about you? 🍂🧡

#wildblossomlife #november #norfolkfens #findinginspirationinnature #getoutside #seasons
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