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    How to Plan a Sewing Project

    April 26, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Planย a Sewing Project If you have read any of my other blog posts, you will probably have realised that I rarely use a pattern to make things. I prefer to come up with something myself from scratch. That way I end up with something that is…

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    Burlap Bag Tutorial

    April 22, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Pretty Burlap Bag Tutorial I love burlap at the moment. There’s something so charming about its rusticness and I love using fabric made from natural fibres. There are so many beautiful, inspiring things on Pinterest where people have used burlap along with something else to make something…

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    How to Make a Ruffly Flower

    April 20, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Make a Ruffly Flower As I’ve mentioned using a ruffly flower several times over the last few weeks, I thought it might be a good idea to share with you how to make one! Making a ruffly flower isย great. Not only do they add a pretty…

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    What To Do When a Sewing Project Goes Wrong

    April 15, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    What To Do When A Sewing Project Goes Wrong No matter how long you have been sewing for, it happens to all of us. An error of judgement, a mistake when measuring, pieces cut incorrectly, an omnivorous sewing machine. A sewing project that goes wrong. I have made…

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    Picnic Placemat

    April 12, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Make a Picnic Place Mat When the weather is nice, my boys and I love to eat outside. Sometimes we like to go to a park, or to the beach. Sometimes we just sit at our picnic table in the back garden. A little problem with…

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    The Atom Superhero Style DIY Costume

    April 1, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    The Atom Superhero Style DIY Costume I no longer feel like Superman’s mum. You know the part where his mum makes his suit? As far as I am aware, she only does it the once. It is like I am mum to umpteen superheroes. Including Booster Gold (I…

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Being out in nature always feels precious. It does Being out in nature always feels precious. It doesn't matter very much what time of year it is, or what the weather is doing.

Today I wanted to get outside while it was still light. Yesterday it was after 3pm and it was already gloomy!

Today is lovely and bright, even though everywhere is damp and muddy after all the rain.

#winter #December #norfolkfens #slowingdownabit #wildblossomlife
De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿคช

We got the tree from the same place we always do. It's a bit too big for the space. My youngest boy suggested measuring the space then measuring the trees before choosing one, but nobody remembered when we went to get the tree ๐ŸŒฒ 

I love all our decorations that hold so many memories but it looks nothing like the aesthetic, perfectly decorated trees that I have mostly seen on here. Actually, it looks a bit less of a mess than it has in the past. That could be because my helper is now taller and doesn't try to shove the decorations all on the same branches.

The telly is on in the first picture. We were watching something with James May and his buddies making things in his giant shed, except kids with phones who were not.

My youngest wanted to check how much space there was under the tree. Thankfully he didn't knock it over!

The cat thinks she is a Christmas decoration.

Aaaaannd... The last 2 pictures show how much mess was made getting the tree in .

Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ””๐Ÿ’•

#deinfluencing #realchristmas #mess #catsofchristmas #wildblossomlife
I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was green!

The theme of December's Wild Blossom Companion is red, so I thought I might look for red things. There are plenty, berries, post boxes, horses (and humans) wearing red coats. But what caught my eye were the greens. 

๐Ÿ’š Lichen
๐Ÿ’š A green fence 
๐Ÿ’š Green patches on the bark of a tree
๐Ÿ’š Some green leaves still
๐Ÿ’š One of many colours on an oak leaf

It's as though now the leaves are mostly gone, other greens are easier to spot. When we have a good look, what we see is not always what we expect ๐Ÿ’šโค๏ธ

#wildblossomlife
#wildblossomcompanion
#green
#slowdecember
#getoutside 
#slowdownandnotice
Foraged wreath... Years ago, I used to make a wre Foraged wreath...

Years ago, I used to make a wreath from flower foam and Leyland cypress. But my neighbour's cypresses where my garden joined theirs were replaced by a fence, and I eventually realised that flower foam was really just plastic, it's not recyclable or compostable and it doesn't break down properly.

In the past I've made tied wreaths and ones from dried satsumas and slices of orange.

This year I wanted to make a foraged wreath. I've tried before and what I made looked sad. I don't have access to very much willow.

I was inspired by @crochetcrazyhelen to grab some twigs and stuff them in a big pot. My garden yielded all kinds of good stuff, brambles, out of control honeysuckle, dogwood, and ivy. Being a bad gardener pays off surprisingly often!

I decided my pot was too small, so I tried a drum head (my eldest son is drummer @dominic__0036 ), but that was too big. You know what Goldilocks also had? Hair. And probably bobbles. So I bent the brambles and things round in a circle and held them in place with hair bobbles, before tying it together with wool.

I did originally plan to add some berries and seed heads, but I actually like it as it is ๐Ÿ’–

#wildblossomlife #foragedwreath #slowdecember #natureinspired #advent #makeityourself
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