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    Interactive DIY Christmas Jumper

    December 13, 2015June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    With Christmas Jumper Day fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to make a Christmas jumper for Boy 4. I had an idea for making something with an interactive element. I didn’t want anything too complicated, perhaps something involving a pocket. So here we have Santa and a chimney!…

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  • A Crafty Person’s Gift Guide

    November 19, 2015March 19, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Here is a crafty person’s gift guide! Perhaps you are wondering what to give the crafty person in your life, or maybe you are that crafty person and people keep asking you what you want for Christmas and you have no idea. Here is a list of 18…

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    10 Quick and Easy Handmade Gift Ideas

    November 12, 2015March 19, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Making handmade gifts for friends and family at Christmas is a lovely thing to do, but how do you go about it without driving yourself insane? One option is to start early. I know people who like to start on Christmas at the end of the summer, whether they are making gifts…

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  • dried fruit wreath, citrus wreath, natural christmas burlap and lace tied wreath

    How to Make a Dried Fruit Wreath

    November 8, 2015March 13, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    One of my favourite Christmas tasks is unpacking all the decorations. I have memories of doing this as a little girl, when my dad would bring the box down from the loft. The tree (always a real one) would be in the front room and we would remove…

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Nettles to yarn 🌱🧶 Not a project that can be done Nettles to yarn 🌱🧶

Not a project that can be done in an afternoon! It's taken about a week just to make a tiny bit and could probably have left them for longer.

I love how nettle like the yarn is. It's quite soft and smells of plants.

#creativelife #nettles #nettleyarn #inspiredbynature #slowingdownabit
There was a huge thunderstorm and lots of rain, so There was a huge thunderstorm and lots of rain, so afterwards I went outside to sniff the garden 🌱🌺🥀

#wildblossomlife #slowingdownabit #spring #may #garden
It's ridiculously hot but at least it's cooler in It's ridiculously hot but at least it's cooler in the woods 🌳🌿

Apparently it's not just because it's shady. It's also because trees do a thing called evapotranspiration which means they release moisture into the air. So it's basically nature's air conditioning 🌿🌞💖

So if you are too hot and you are able to, find yourself a wood. Or even a clump of trees will do. 

If you like the idea of having something to do while you are there, I have written a new guide, called What to do in the Woods in Summer: A Guide for Creative People. It's quite a lot like the Wild Blossom Companion, there's a little bit to read, some forest bathing style things to do, some gentle, open ended creative things to do while you are there, and some more for when you get home if you want to stretch it out a bit more. The link is in my bio.

#creativelife #woodsinsummer #getoutside #slowdownabit #inspiredbynature
Visible mending on a pair of shoes 🧵🪡 I have the Visible mending on a pair of shoes 🧵🪡

I have the kind of feet that tend to cause holes in things quite quickly, and I only got these shoes last summer and they already had sprung holes.

We often treat things like they are disposable, and instead of mending things when they break, or spring holes, we throw them away and buy some new ones.

But we don't give much thought about what happens to them after we have put them in the bin. 

Sometimes things can be recycled, but not everything is and not everything can be. Elastane (probably what the fake laces on my shoes are made of) for example won't break down even with chemicals, so as far as we know it could be here forever.

Somas a tiny act of rebellion, I repaired my holey shoes with pretty patches and Boro style stitching.  They are not perfect but they are wearable again.

#wildblossomlife #boro #visiblemending #makedoandmend
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