Skip to content
  • Home
  • Offerings
  • Blog
  • Mailing List
  • About
  • Contact
Wild Blossom Life
Wild Blossom Life
how to make washi tape bunting

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…

Read More Decorating a Cake: How To Make Washi Tape BuntingContinue

year of bunting july challenge

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

July 11, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
2 Comments

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…

Read More Year of Bunting July Challenge: Bunting For a Card or a CakeContinue

diy bunting card

DIY Bunting Card

June 15, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
1 Comment

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…

Read More DIY Bunting CardContinue

Year of Bunting Challenge 4 bunting with flowers

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…

Read More Year of Bunting Challenge 4: Bunting With FlowersContinue

year of bunting challenge 3

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…

Read More Year Of Bunting Challenge 3: Knitted or Crocheted BuntingContinue

year of bunting challenges

Year of Bunting Challenges

April 11, 2019September 22, 2023 Blog
2 Comments

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…

Read More Year of Bunting ChallengesContinue

Page navigation

1 2 Next PageNext

Welcome

I'm so happy you're here! You are so welcome to join me in this exploration of what it means to be a creative person.

Search

Join the Mailing List

Sign up for creative invitations and seasonal inspiration, and I'll send you the free mini course Crafted Colours: Making Colour Schemes From Photos

Please Send Me the Free Mini Course

You can download the course by clicking on the link below.

Crafted Colours: Creating Colour Schemes From Photos

Wild Blossom Companion

The Wild Blossom Companion is a gentle, seasonal guide for creative people. You can find out more here.

follow along

Latest on Instagram

anna_wildblossomlife

Today I should have done housework and attacked th Today I should have done housework and attacked the garden, so I went for a walk and took a nap.

I would not feel better if I had done the things I should have done instead of the things I wanted to do.

Sometimes the boring things can wait ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒž

#norfolk #summer #creativelife #getoutside #fieldnotes
July... ๐ŸŒธ Blackberries that are starting to lo July...

๐ŸŒธ Blackberries that are starting to look ripe, although they might still be a bit zingy for most people's tastes!

๐ŸŒธ Fields full of wild flowers 

๐ŸŒธ Lots of sunshine!

๐ŸŒธ Some of the wheat is nearly ready for harvesting. 

๐ŸŒธ Shady lanes are blissfully cool

๐ŸŒธ The wild and jungly buddleia in my garden is covered in butterflies

If you like the idea of slowing down a bit and noticing the seasons changing, along with some ideas for gentle, open ended creative things you can do that reflect the seasons, you might be interested in the Wild Blossom Companion. It's a themed, monthly guide for creative people and is available as a subscription or as standalone months. There are links in bio, or DM me if you want to as anything. ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฟ

#july #creativelife #seasonalinspiration #summer #norfolk #enjoyingtheseasons
A new project! It was years ago that I realised A new project! 

It was years ago that I realised that the landscape here in Norfolk is so often stripy. Fields, hedges, lanes, the sea, clouds, all manage to arrange themselves into a series of stripes.

The idea of making a neat little drawing or a painting might feel like too much, especially if you are somebody who likes the idea of making art but are afraid of doing it wrong.

Making a picture by assembling stripes can feel much less intimidating. Some of the decisions have already been made, and the stripes mean that one thing in particular is the focus, rather than all of it and not knowing where to start because it's all too much.

The next thing I'm going to do is sew the stripes together, then I might add some embroidered poppies to the foreground. At the moment it is under a tea towel to protect it from the cats!

This idea is a creative invitation from June's Wild Blossom Companion. I've assigned a theme to each month, but plenty of the themes can be revisited at other times of the year as well.

If you'd like more information about the Wild Blossom Companion, there is a link in my bio ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’–

#creativelife
#wildblossomlife #wildblossomcompanion #stripes #Norfolk #seasonalcreativity #creativeinvitation #creativeideasforsummer
"To be creative is to let little pieces of your he "To be creative is to let little pieces of your heart go and place them into each project you make." Pat Bravo, textile designer.

This quote shows perfectly why it doesn't matter if what you make isn't perfect.

Perfection isn't the point! A machine might be able to do something perfectly, and get the same perfect results every time. That's why mass produced is awful. Dozens of things, all the same, with no variation.

Handmade things are different. Each one is unique. Even if we make the same thing several times, each one will be different because it is very hard to make things that are identical.

It's the same in nature. Each little leaf, flower, buzzing insect, cat, or human is different. They're not supposed to be the same. We are not the same. And the things that make things different might be what makes them imperfect, but I'd rather have something unique and imperfect than boringly perfect and the same as a hundred others.

#lettinggoofperfectionism #perfectisboring #creativelife #creativityeveryday
#handmade
Follow on Instagram

Join

Sign up for the newsletter for seasonal inspiration and gentle creative encouragement

Please wait...

Thank you! You'll hear from me soon :)

Explore

Nature and Seasons

Creative invitations

Thoughts and Reflections

Connect

If you have questions, or if you'd like to chat, I'd love to hear from you!

hello.wildblossomlife@gmail.com

Instagram Facebook

© 2025 Wild Blossom Life ยท Design by Studio Mommy

Scroll to top
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Styles
  • Templates
  • About
  • Contact
  • Purchase
  • Typography
  • Image Options
  • Shop Our Faves
  • Link In Bio
Search
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.