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Paintings From the Lupins Colour Scheme

Paintings From the Lupins Colour Scheme

June 29, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Colour Palettes, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons
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Last week I shared a tiny weaving I made using embroidery thread, with a piece of cardboard as a loom. I used colours from a colour scheme I made from a photo of some lupins. The colours are so beautiful, I still feel like I haven’t exhausted them!…

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Tiny Weaving from a Photo of Lupins

Tiny Weaving from a Photo of Lupins

June 22, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Gentle Projects, Nature and Seasons
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About a month ago, I was sitting outside the library in Dersingham eating my lunch and admiring some lupins that had been planted nearby. I’m not much of a gardener myself, but I like gardens, and somebody had made the little bit between the library and the car…

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Pressing Leaves into Clay

Pressing Leaves into Clay

May 26, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons
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Choosing to respond to what is around us in the moment can sometimes take the form of almost wanting to preserve it. Spring is a glorious time, and now in late spring, with summer looming, everything is lush and green. People’s gardens are full of flowers, and I’ve…

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How to Crochet Granny Squares in Spring Colours

How to Crochet Granny Squares in Spring Colours

March 13, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Gentle Projects, Nature and Seasons
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One of my favourite things to do at the moment is to make colours schemes from photos that I’ve then while I’ve been out. Where I live is beautiful. And although there is a lot to be said for just enjoying what is there in front of us,…

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Ideas for Enjoying Early Spring

Ideas for Enjoying Early Spring

February 24, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons, Slowing Down, Thoughts and Reflections

It’s still only February, but here in my little patch of Norfolk there are signs of spring everywhere. We’ve had a very mild, very wet winter. Often it doesn’t start to feel like spring here until the end of March, and occasionally it will even be May before…

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Landscape and Creativity Part 4: Using Things Found in Nature

Landscape and Creativity Part 4: Using Things Found in Nature

January 14, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons, Slowing Down
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Getting outside in winter, unless you absolutely have to, can be tricky. Not only is the weather awful, but the days are so much shorter. In summer, it doesn’t feel like a challenge to get up a bit earlier and go for a walk, or to go out…

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Today I should have done housework and attacked th Today I should have done housework and attacked the garden, so I went for a walk and took a nap.

I would not feel better if I had done the things I should have done instead of the things I wanted to do.

Sometimes the boring things can wait ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒž

#norfolk #summer #creativelife #getoutside #fieldnotes
July... ๐ŸŒธ Blackberries that are starting to lo July...

๐ŸŒธ Blackberries that are starting to look ripe, although they might still be a bit zingy for most people's tastes!

๐ŸŒธ Fields full of wild flowers 

๐ŸŒธ Lots of sunshine!

๐ŸŒธ Some of the wheat is nearly ready for harvesting. 

๐ŸŒธ Shady lanes are blissfully cool

๐ŸŒธ The wild and jungly buddleia in my garden is covered in butterflies

If you like the idea of slowing down a bit and noticing the seasons changing, along with some ideas for gentle, open ended creative things you can do that reflect the seasons, you might be interested in the Wild Blossom Companion. It's a themed, monthly guide for creative people and is available as a subscription or as standalone months. There are links in bio, or DM me if you want to as anything. ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฟ

#july #creativelife #seasonalinspiration #summer #norfolk #enjoyingtheseasons
A new project! It was years ago that I realised A new project! 

It was years ago that I realised that the landscape here in Norfolk is so often stripy. Fields, hedges, lanes, the sea, clouds, all manage to arrange themselves into a series of stripes.

The idea of making a neat little drawing or a painting might feel like too much, especially if you are somebody who likes the idea of making art but are afraid of doing it wrong.

Making a picture by assembling stripes can feel much less intimidating. Some of the decisions have already been made, and the stripes mean that one thing in particular is the focus, rather than all of it and not knowing where to start because it's all too much.

The next thing I'm going to do is sew the stripes together, then I might add some embroidered poppies to the foreground. At the moment it is under a tea towel to protect it from the cats!

This idea is a creative invitation from June's Wild Blossom Companion. I've assigned a theme to each month, but plenty of the themes can be revisited at other times of the year as well.

If you'd like more information about the Wild Blossom Companion, there is a link in my bio ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’–

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#wildblossomlife #wildblossomcompanion #stripes #Norfolk #seasonalcreativity #creativeinvitation #creativeideasforsummer
"To be creative is to let little pieces of your he "To be creative is to let little pieces of your heart go and place them into each project you make." Pat Bravo, textile designer.

This quote shows perfectly why it doesn't matter if what you make isn't perfect.

Perfection isn't the point! A machine might be able to do something perfectly, and get the same perfect results every time. That's why mass produced is awful. Dozens of things, all the same, with no variation.

Handmade things are different. Each one is unique. Even if we make the same thing several times, each one will be different because it is very hard to make things that are identical.

It's the same in nature. Each little leaf, flower, buzzing insect, cat, or human is different. They're not supposed to be the same. We are not the same. And the things that make things different might be what makes them imperfect, but I'd rather have something unique and imperfect than boringly perfect and the same as a hundred others.

#lettinggoofperfectionism #perfectisboring #creativelife #creativityeveryday
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