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    Gingham Heart Fabric Christmas Decorations

    November 9, 2014December 9, 2014 Living a Creative Life
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    If you folks have read any of my other posts about making stuff for Christmas, you might have noticed that I like red and white stuff rather a lot. Here is another easy tutorial for making fabric Christmas decorations, a little fabric gingham heart. Fabric Gingham Heart Christmas…

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    Fabric Christmas Decorations

    November 8, 2014December 9, 2014 Living a Creative Life
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    Now that Bonfire Night is over, it is officially not too early to start on Christmas! These decorations can be made from scraps of fabric and in a variety of shapes and sizes, all from one easy template. Different shapes can be achieved by changing the number of…

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    How to Make an Advent Calendar

    November 5, 2014December 9, 2014 Living a Creative Life
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    People round here start Christmas early. There are people in my village who get all their lights upย as soon as Bonfire Night is over. As today is Bonfire Night, I expect to see some Christmas lights appearing over the next week or so! It might seem early, but…

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    How to Make a Wrap Skirt

    October 31, 2014March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    Despite it having been quite warm the last couple of days, it is definitely time to shove the summer outfits to the back of the wardrobe and dig out the winter clobber. Unfortunately I’ve got rid of some stuff that didn’t fit, had holes in and whatever, so…

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    Buggy Cushion for Quinny Zapp Xtra

    October 29, 2014March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    Having had 4 babies and also a mild pushchair addiction, I have got through a few pushchairs. Out of the 12 or so that I’ve had my little Quinny Zapp Xtra is easily my favourite. There are some issues with it. The wheels are noisy and the basket…

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    Free Printable Monthly Blog Planner

    October 23, 2014March 19, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    Becoming more organised has changed my life. I am not kidding. I used to be disorganised and this is still my natural inclination. Although a little bit of chaos makes me feel alive, I dislike the feeling of stuff spiralling out of control, forgetting things, losing things and…

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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 ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ

What is in your hands?

#wildblossomlife #spring #blossom #tendwhatmatters #gentlerhythms
Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž They are ever Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž

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 ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
Doing something creative can be a way to express h Doing something creative can be a way to express how nature fills us with inspiration, how we can't help but let it overflow into things we make, or paint or draw.

It can also be a way to notice what is there. It's so easy to rush through life  without really seeing, for things to become so familiar that even when we slow down, life's distractions stop us paying close attention to all the beautiful things that are there for us to see. There is so much beauty in the natural world, and so much peace to be found in not just spending time in nature, but leaving the distractions behind, parking the worries and putting our phones in our pockets, and being fully present.

Drawing, or painting, or even making some kind of abstract stitched thing requires us to really look. To notice the different shapes of the petals, and the tiny shadows and the little lines. How it is slightly more pink at the edges. How the centre of the flower is green, not pink. 

The drawing is the result of what we see. Whether or not somebody else would think it is good is not the point. It's about what you see, what you notice, and how that travels from your brain, through your arm and out onto a piece of paper, and how now that perfect little thing is there in your brain. Whatever else is going on, there is cherry blossom ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ 

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #inspiredbynature #blossom #spring
Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ I never get tire Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ

I never get tired of seeing fields full of daffodils.

Blossom, so much of it this year ๐Ÿ’–

The view across the river in King's Lynn. 

Daffodils again

More blossom

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #springcolourpalettes #March #norfolk
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