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    How to Refashion a Top Into a Dress

    June 10, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Refashion a Top Into a Dress I’ve had this top in my wardrobe for several years. I bought it because I love the print and the colours. Unfortunately my husbandย caught me with the camera while I was wearing it and I was horrified to see that…

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  • how to make a pillow into a box cushion with piping

    How to Turn a Pillow Into a Box Cushion With Piping

    April 7, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Turn a Pillow Into a Box Cushion With Piping One of the things I would love to have in my home is a reading nook. Lots of us living in a small house means that at the moment, there isn’t space for the any of the…

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    How To Line a Wooden Box With Fabric

    January 13, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How To Line a Wooden Box With Fabric I love a junk shop. Ikea is fine, and it depends on what you’re looking for, but I love the idea of taking something that nobody wants and giving at a new lease of life. Even if it’s a bit…

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  • 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 2

    November 2, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog

    12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges Day 2 Turning an Old Pair of Jeans into a Christmas Gift Welcome to the 2nd day of 12 Days of Christmas DIY Challenges! Over the course ofย 12 days, 5 of us are sharing Christmas themed challenges and tutorials using materials that…

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    Turning a Dress into a Skirt

    March 27, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    This is a dress I made last summer. The pattern came free with a magazine. Despite some misgivings I decided to have a go at making it. However, I should have heeded the warning on the packet. “Easy” is usually a synonym for “completely shapeless and won’t fit….

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    Maternity Clothes

    July 26, 2012March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    I haven’t posted anything for a long time because I have had awful morning sickness and I’ve not felt up to making anything. People who smugly declare that “pregnancy is not an illness!!” need a poke in the eye. Okay, it’s not an illness, but it can make…

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Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž They are ever Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž

They are everywhere now. The hedgerows are coming green. There is lots of blossom. New buds are appearing on the trees and starting to open. The sun was warm today and the birds were singing ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
Doing something creative can be a way to express h Doing something creative can be a way to express how nature fills us with inspiration, how we can't help but let it overflow into things we make, or paint or draw.

It can also be a way to notice what is there. It's so easy to rush through life  without really seeing, for things to become so familiar that even when we slow down, life's distractions stop us paying close attention to all the beautiful things that are there for us to see. There is so much beauty in the natural world, and so much peace to be found in not just spending time in nature, but leaving the distractions behind, parking the worries and putting our phones in our pockets, and being fully present.

Drawing, or painting, or even making some kind of abstract stitched thing requires us to really look. To notice the different shapes of the petals, and the tiny shadows and the little lines. How it is slightly more pink at the edges. How the centre of the flower is green, not pink. 

The drawing is the result of what we see. Whether or not somebody else would think it is good is not the point. It's about what you see, what you notice, and how that travels from your brain, through your arm and out onto a piece of paper, and how now that perfect little thing is there in your brain. Whatever else is going on, there is cherry blossom ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ 

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #inspiredbynature #blossom #spring
Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ I never get tire Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ

I never get tired of seeing fields full of daffodils.

Blossom, so much of it this year ๐Ÿ’–

The view across the river in King's Lynn. 

Daffodils again

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#creativelife #wildblossomlife #springcolourpalettes #March #norfolk
Blossom spam! So far March has been a lot less we Blossom spam!

So far March has been a lot less wet than February, and there has been plenty of sunshine and some almost warm days.

In the past, when lionish weather has come back, I've seen it as nature trying to trick us. It seems like spring, and then it is winter again. Maybe summer is on its way, then no, we've regressed back to winter.

Now I don't see it like that. Sunny days are a treat, and a promise of what is to come ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ’–

#spring #blossom #norfolk #wildblossomlife #creativelife
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