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    Decorating a Cake: How To Make Washi Tape Bunting

    July 26, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives

    Decorating a Cake: How To Make Washi Tape Bunting Although I’ve like making things all my life, when it comes to being creative in the kitchen, I’m definitely a work in progress! When my mum taught me how to sew, knit and crochet, she also taught me how…

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    Year of Bunting July Challenge: Bunting For a Card or a Cake

    July 11, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Year of Bunting July Challenge: Bunting For a Card or a Cake Over the last 10 days or so, it’s somehow become July. So it’s time to have a look at what people who took part in June’s Year of Bunting challenge made! There was only one entry…

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    DIY Bunting Card

    June 15, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    DIY Bunting Card Having concentrated mostly on sewing for the last few years, I’ve decided with one thing and another to change direction a little bit and include more of other crafts. This is actually what I did when I started Tea and a Sewing Machine. It was…

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    Year of Bunting Challenge 4: Bunting With Flowers

    May 4, 2019September 22, 2023 Blog

    Year of Bunting Challenge 4: Bunting With Flowers I have a hard time deciding which is my favourite season, do you? I like the autumn. Crispy leaves, golden light and woodsmoke. Winter’s nice when you get a clear crisp day. When it’s horrible out, you can light the…

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    Year Of Bunting Challenge 3: Knitted or Crocheted Bunting

    April 18, 2019September 22, 2023 Blog

    Year Of Bunting Challenge 3: Knitted or Crocheted Bunting Welcome to the Year of Bunting Challenge 3! Challenge 2 was to make some bunting embroidery and several people took part. Hazel made a cross stitched book mark. Julie made a needle case (she has a craft blog too…

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    Year of Bunting Challenges

    April 11, 2019September 22, 2023 Blog
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    Year of Bunting Challenges So far we’ve had 2 Year of Bunting Challenges. The first was to decorate some furniture with bunting, and the second was to make some embroidered bunting. You can see what the winners made for the first challenge here. I haven’t written up the…

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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 💖

#wildblossomlife #foragedwreath #slowdecember #natureinspired #advent #makeityourself
I know for some people, when 1st December arrives I know for some people, when 1st December arrives they want to feel ready for Christmas, to have all their decorations up and the presents at least under control if not completely sorted out.

I don't do it like that. Partly because I don't think I could ever be that organised! I used to mind that I wasn't, but now I don't. Also because I see December as the time to start things moving, not the time to have everything ready straight away. I love the idea of Advent, and I want to enjoy it, without throwing myself straight into Christmas.

Christmas can be brought in gradually. 

One of the songs currently playing inside my head is "People Look East" by Eleanor Farjeon, who incidentally also wrote "Morning has Broken". It's about preparing and making ready.

Feeling in that kind of mood today, I made the Christmas cake. A family recipe dating from 1979, in pounds and ounces, and with instructions to clean the fruit, feels comforting, especially when so much of modern Christmas seems to involve overconsumption of mass produced tat and cakes wrapped up in plastic that taste like playdoh.

These things can make the season feel mildly depressing , like a grey overlay over something that ought to make us feel good. It doesn't have to be like that. A hard no to playdoh flavoured cakes!

I've also gathered some bits to make a foraged wreath (being a terrible gardener has paid off again!), and went for a walk in the last of today's sunshine.

#December #wildblossomlife #advent #christmascake #slowdecember
2 things from today 💖 The first is a tree outs 2 things from today 💖

The first is a tree outside the co op in my village. It is a treat all year round, and it makes me feel a little bit warmer knowing that those berries are going to keep some little birds going this winter.

The second is a ball of yarn I have been making over a few days, from cotton, and tissue paper from a present.

Special things can be found in the ordinary 💖🐦‍⬛🧶

#wildblossomlife #winter #berries #paperyarn #slowingdownabit
This morning my 16 year old peered out of the wind This morning my 16 year old peered out of the window and remarked that it wasn't really light yet! 

It has been a grey, drizzly day. My youngest boy and I went out for a short walk, and I noticed the beautiful holly tree in somebody's garden, all glossy leaves and bright berries.

Before lunch, we made our Advent candle. We've been making our own from beeswax sheets for a few years now. It felt like the perfect thing to do on a gloomy day.

We lit it at dinner time, in amongst the usual mess and homework. 

#wildblossomlife #advent #adventcandle #slowdecember #ordinarydays
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