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    Making Leaf Rubbings

    November 2, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons
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    Making leaf rubbings, like the paintings of leaves that I wrote about in the last post, is another easy, low risk way to respond in a creative way to the beautiful colours of autumn. Here in England, the leaves are still coming off the trees and we’re not…

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  • How to Sew a Fabric Headband

    How to Sew a Fabric Headband

    May 7, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    A few weeks ago I wrote a post about making fabric flowers with a Clover flower maker. In the post I said that I was intending to use the flowers to make a cushion. I’d made 3 flowers at that point, and I was planning on making a…

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    Easiest Notebook Ever! How To Make a Notebook

    February 19, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Easiest Notebook Ever! How To Make a Notebook This post contains affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you anything but if you click on a link and make purchase, you’ll help to support Tea and a Sewing Machine. Oh my goodness, who doesn’t love stationery?? Pretty notebooks, matching pens,…

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    Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour

    November 19, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour Welcome to the Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour blog hop! It’s a lovely idea to make things for Christmas, but it can be difficult to find the time when everything’s so busy. I used to…

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    Bunting Tote Bag Tutorial

    March 29, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Bunting Tote Bag Tutorial This is a post I actually wrote 3 years ago when a new law was introduced in the UK that required shops to charge for plastic bags. I’m recycling it because it fits in nicely with the Year of Bunting! For making the bunting…

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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star

    December 19, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star When I was younger, I did a lot of Christmas crafting. I used to make cards and decorations and bake stuff. Then I had kids and everything changed! I’d plan to make lots of things, then feel frustrated and annoyed that I hadn’t managed…

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Wild Blossom Companion: A Gentle Beginning

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I've been thinking about how easily we can slip in I've been thinking about how easily we can slip into comparing our lives with other people's and feel that we are failing because our lives don't look like theirs.

In the end, we are all different, our circumstances are different, our children are different, our home lives are different. What might work brilliantly for one person at the moment, in the season of life they are in, might just not work for you right now.

Sometimes the best we can do is accept that the current situation is what it is. Sometimes particular things need to take priority, or there might be a weird phase we have to live through. 

But it is worth remembering that growth can look like stillness, care can be keeping things simple, wintering is a thing, letting go is sometimes necessary, and tending what is can be as necessary as cooking up something new.

This is what Wild Blossom Life is about. It's not about making huge changes to your life. It's about doing little things that help, slowing down, getting outside even if it's only for a few moments, remembering to breathe, noticing what is there, then having some kind of creative thing for your hands to do if that is what you need, without pressure or expectation.

#wildblossomlife #autumn #lettinggoofperfectionism #peacefulmoments #changingseasons
From October's Wild Blossom Companion: "This is a From October's Wild Blossom Companion:

"This is a season of layers. 

Leaves drift down to form a rustling tapestry on the forest floor. 

The hedgerows become textured with sloes and rosehips. 

The fields lie stubbled and still. 

The skies stretch wider.

There's a richness in the layering of scent and sound: damp earth, woodsmoke and the call of migrating birds."

#creativelife #wildblossomcompanion #october #slowdownandlook #autumn #imspiredbynature
Painting leaves πŸπŸ‚πŸ§‘ After making an Octo Painting leaves πŸπŸ‚πŸ§‘

After making an October colour palette with water colour, I wanted to do something else with the paint. 

So I painted some leaves πŸπŸ‚

If you feel that you are not much of an artist, it can be difficult to try, even if you really want to. Often we have this expectation that what we make, draw or paint has to be perfect.

One thing that is very clear from looking at autumn leaves is how beautiful they are in all their imperfections! The colours are blotchy. They look like they ought to be symmetrical, but they often are not. The edges are wiggly and the lobes are uneven. So if you don't paint perfect, neat little watercolours, your leaves will probably be lovely!

I already had the colours, so that was one less thing to think about. It was a joyful experiment, not an exercise in perfection. Blotchiness is required! And a pro tip if you are new to this, let the leaves dry before painting the veins πŸ˜‰πŸ§‘

#creativelife #paintingautumnleaves #creativeinvitation #octobercolours #colourpaletteforoctober #lettinggoofperfection
A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘ Mak A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘

Making a colour palette is one of my favourite creative invitations. October is an especially good month with all its lovely colours, tthe leaves of course, and also the berries in the hedgerows, the rosehips, the sweet chestnuts, the conkers and the acorns. The light is beautifully golden, but the grey misty days are lovely too.

Mine is based on the colours of the leaves and things I collected, but making a colour palette doesn't have to look like this! You could use acrylics or gouache, coloured pencils, scraps of fabric, yarn or thread. You could use other objects that make you think of autumn colours, or a photo.

If I was to make another, I would definitely include grey for the misty days. What do you think?

#creativelife #colourpaletteforoctober #imspiredbynature #simplecreativity #wildblossomlife
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