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  • The Benefits of Going For a Walk

    The Benefits of Going For a Walk

    April 5, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Slowing Down, Thoughts and Reflections
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    A few years ago, I read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. If you haven’t read it, In the book she talks about her own difficulties as a writer, and she suggests some things that creative people can do to allow their creativity to flow without having to…

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  • What to Do When You Don’t Like What You Have Made

    What to Do When You Don’t Like What You Have Made

    March 21, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Thoughts and Reflections
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    Even saying the title of this post makes me feel uncomfortable! It’s like a nasty little secret that I daren’t say out loud, like having verrucas or a cat that keeps going to the loo in places it shouldn’t. A quick look on social media or elsewhere on…

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  • How to Make a Woven Braid

    How to Make a Woven Braid

    March 14, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Gentle Projects, Nature and Seasons

    For anybody who has had some fun making colour schemes using the free mini course, and might be wondering what they need for exploring the colour schemes they’ve made, I would always recommend having a look at what you already have in the first instance. Coloured pencils, scraps…

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  • Trying New Things

    Trying New Things

    March 8, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Thoughts and Reflections

    Lots of creative people enjoy a variety of crafts and other creative activities. Often, those of us who sew will also knit or crochet, enjoy embroidery, card making, screen printing, photography, watercolour painting, or anything from a long list of creative activities. We often also enjoy other creative…

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  • Feeling Inspired By What is Around Us

    Feeling Inspired By What is Around Us

    February 21, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Nature and Seasons, Slowing Down, Thoughts and Reflections
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    Often one of the first signs of spring I notice is usually buds in the flowering currant outside my kitchen window. This year, it was early February when I first noticed little pink buds at the ends of twigs. In my little bit of Norfolk, it feels very…

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  • Creative Things to Do When Your Energy Levels are Low

    Creative Things to Do When Your Energy Levels are Low

    February 14, 2025June 24, 2025 Blog, Gentle Projects, Thoughts and Reflections
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    We are now halfway through February, and at my house, everybody is tired. There are signs of spring, but it is still cold, the mornings are dark still when I get up (although I did notice today that it was light at 7 o’clock while I was in…

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After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a look back at the ones I made for March. One of the March colour schemes was actually very similar to an April one.

It probably says quite a lot about which colours I like at the moment!

And it stands to reason that at a time of year when there is a lot of blossom, colour palettes are going to be similar. I don't think I could choose between them, it would be like choosing a favourite child! But I think it is interesting that the April one is definitely warmer, reflecting how spring changes from March to April in longer days and warmer weather.

If I think to, I might look for similar colours in May too, and make another colour scheme to compare with the others 🌸🌱🌿

#wildblossomlife #colourpalettes #spring #blossom #inspiredbynature
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 💐what do you think?

And yes, I somehow managed to forget that phone needed to be the other way round! 🤦🤷🤪

#creativelife #painting #printing #spring #flowers
Colour schemes for April 🌸🌱💖 April is a pink mont Colour schemes for April 🌸🌱💖

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
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