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    How to Make a Burlap Fabric Bowl

    April 29, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Aย Burlap Fabric Bowl Tutorial A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorialย showing how to make a burlap picnic mat. Sometimes if you are eating outside, you need more than just a mat to eat off. You need bowls and things too! Taking enough foodย to feed 6 hungry…

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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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