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    30 Minute Storage Basket

    January 11, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    30 Minute Storage Basket One of the things I’ve discovered since I began home educating my 3 younger boys a few months ago is just how much more stuff there is! A while ago I posted this photo in a home ed Facebook group. Obviously the boys had…

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    Tote Bag Tutorial

    July 21, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Tote Bag Tutorial Here’s a tote bag tutorial! I’m not going to say an awful lot about this, except that I’ve made 2 of these bags for a teacher. They’re the correct size for carrying A4 exercise books, so they’d also be fine for carrying library books or…

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    Easy Tulle Circle Skirt

    June 16, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easy Tulle Circle Skirt One of the nice things about getting older is that I’m so much comfier in my own skin. I’m also much comfier in things I Iike wearing. I know what I like and I’m not bothered about what other people think! Being in the…

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  • Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams

    Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams

    June 10, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams My friend Wendy recently asked me to make her a little bag. She and her husband Danny play Scrabble, and they need a bag to keep the Scrabble tiles in. It also needed to be big enough to get a hand in…

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  • DIY Circle Skirt From a Duvet Cover

    DIY Circle Skirt From a Duvet Cover

    March 27, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    DIY Circle Skirt From a Duvet Cover Circle skirts are fab. They’re easy to make, lovely to wear and they suit most people, whatever shape or size you are. One tiny little problem is that they take quite a lot of fabric, probably 3-4 metres depending on your…

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    8 Crochet Hacks to Make Crocheting Easier

    March 15, 2018September 22, 2023 Blog
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    8 Crochet Hacks to Make Crocheting Easier Who doesn’t love a hack or 8? Here are some crochet hacks. If you’re a beginner, these will help you to improve yourย crocheting and even give you more time to do the hobby you love! If you are more experienced, you…

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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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