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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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  • 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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  • July Thoughts

    July Thoughts

    July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Thoughts and Reflections
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    Here in my little bit of Norfolk, we’ve so far had quite a nice summer. By nice, I mean warm and sunny. There have been years, like last year, when I was still wearing tights and a coat in early July! But this year, I’m already used to…

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  • Creativity and Using All Our Senses

    Creativity and Using All Our Senses

    June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Slowing Down, Thoughts and Reflections

    Years ago, when I was a teacher, I remember that people beginning to talk about children as being different kinds of learners. Some children were auditory learners, which meant they learnt through listening, others were visual learners, which meant they found it easier if there was a diagram…

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  • Thoughts on Noticing Stripes

    Thoughts on Noticing Stripes

    June 21, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Thoughts and Reflections

    I’ve been noticing stripes in the landscape around where I live for a long time. It might be because this bit of Norfolk near the Wash is so flat. Being flat the lines are straighter. It makes it easy to see the stripes of fields, one behind another,…

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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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