Seasonal

Autumn is my Favourite Season There are two very well known facts about me, one is that Autumn is my favourite season and the second is I love being creative. You do not need to have known me long, or scroll down far on social media, to discover this information. Although I’ve yet to jump […]

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Celebrate No Mow May with a Wreath As a gardener and someone who cares about looking after the environment, the month of May gets me very, very nervous and excited at the same time.  Whilst No Mow May is a brilliant challenge to get behind, it does make all my ears, feet and fingers twitch.

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Let’s get your creative garden in bloom Have you seen the signs of spring yet? You should have, the delicate snowdrops and boastful crocuses have been poking their heads out for weeks. Here’s a fun fact about me, did you know that spring is my second favourite season? I find this fascinating as my all

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Paper Easter Eggs With Easter right around the corner it is time to share this simple Paper Easter Egg craft. I have never decorated my house for Easter before, there is something about the commercialism of it that makes me push it all away. In previous years I have scoffed at the cutesy imagery displayed

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The Best Comforting Winter Shepherds Pie Comfort food is my top go to in winter. The trick is making sure it not only gives me the comfort hit, but the nutrition hit too. I know if I binge on sterotypical comfort food that the dopamine hit will merely be a fragile temporary high rather than

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Are traditions a way to beat the Winter Blues?  It isn’t just the frosty wind that made moan in the bleak midwinter! We do too! We may not have snow falling on top of more snow these days, however this middle stage of winter is grim. Cold, wet, and dark, the shine of Christmas gone,

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How To: Simple Christmas Table Centrepiece  Jump to how to. Christmas and crafting sort of go hand in hand. There is something about the twinkling lights, the longer nights and general air of merriment that brings out the Martha Stewart in many of us. Stores are filled with make your own this, and make your

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Let’s Retreat As Autumn sharply turns into Winter we find it is time to begin our retreat. Those once vividly bright leaves of orange, yellow and red are now merely mulch on the floor. They have been trodden over hundreds of times all whilst their former home settles into its hibernation. Its skeleton morphing into

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Embracing Spring After an extended few months of dormancy I am finally about to begin embracing Spring. This year the winter feels to have dragged and dragged with the rain damping the mood of most days. Even me, who has encouraged us all to embrace the process of wintering has struggled recently and I feel

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Hibernation is fascinating Wintering is a new concept to me, yet its existence is something I’ve been yearning for since I was a young child. With fresh eyes to the world I was fascinated by the concept of hibernation, almost jealous of the animals and life that follows such a pattern. I wanted to be

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