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    DIY Scandinavian Style Christmas Decorations

    November 19, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    DIY Scandinavian Style Christmas Decorations There’s no question at all that the Scandinavians do winter better than anyone else. One of the things I loved about a recent trip to Norway was eating breakfast by candlelight. The mornings were gloomy and the sky overcast, but in the hotel…

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    Very Easy DIY Christmas Earrings

    November 16, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Very Easy DIY Christmas Earrings It’s nice to have something to wear at Christmas. However, buying new clothes can be expensive, and it doesn’t always seem worth it to buy something just for Christmas. And as any of you who have kids will know, going clothes shopping with…

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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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    Easiest Handmade Christmas Card Tutorial Ever

    November 6, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 4 Easiest Handmade Christmas Card Tutorial Ever The challenge for Day 4 of the 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges was to make a Christmas card using cardboard packaging and any other supplies you already had. Vicky and Anne have already…

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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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    Sewing Tips for Making Bags

    October 27, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Sewing Tips For Making Bags I am currently on a bit of a bag making thing. Bags are among my favourite things to sew. They can be finished fairly quickly, they don’t need a lot of fabric and the possibilities are endless. I’ve never been one for shoes,…

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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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