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Christmas Lantern Arrangement

November 24, 2017September 22, 2023 Blog
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Christmas Lantern Arrangement I’m always so happy that Christmas is at the darkest time of the year. I love the winter anyway, and one of my favourite things is putting the lamps on and lighting the fire. You can’t do that in the summer when it’s warm and…

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10 Ways to Get Ready For Christmas Crafts Now

September 19, 2017September 15, 2018 Blog
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10 Ways to Get Ready For Christmas Crafts Now Christmas always sneaks up on me. I know the date never changes, but somehow every year I find it’s the end of November before I’veย even started to think about Christmas crafts and what I might make. I suspect it…

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DIY Decorated Glass Jars

December 5, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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DIY Decorated Glass Jars Making some diy decorated glass jars is something that I’ve wanted to try for a while.ย I’d previously done something similar using glass paints, but they were expensive, messy and difficult to clean up. So when I was sent some Chalkola chalk markers to try…

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How to Sew Slippers

November 11, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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How to Sew Slippers Recently I was sent some Christmas fabric by Overdale Fabrics. I used 2 out of the 4 fat quarters to make a Christmas present cushion, but I still had some fabric left over. My boys were very keen on the idea of having some…

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Christmas Cushion Tutorial

November 4, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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A Christmas Cushion Tutorial: How to Make a Cushion That Looks Like a Present Making new cushions is an easy and inexpensive way to mark changing seasons at home, and Christmas is no exception! It’s very easy to makeย a simple envelope cushion cover from Christmassy fabric, or even…

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Using Dried Fruit For Christmas Decorations

December 17, 2015October 31, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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Here are some ideas for using dried fruit for Christmas decorations. You might have dried some citrus fruit out in the oven and be wondering what to do with it. Or you made some with a plan in mind and you’ve got some left over. Some of the…

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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

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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

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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.

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"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.

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