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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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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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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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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International Day of Women and Girls in Science On February 11th it is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day I never knew existed but once I did I was determined to create a make and bake for it. Enter the Fizzy Science Art! It is inspired by my love of
All began with Fireworks Come the 5th November you won’t find me setting off fireworks in my garden, nor will you find me wrapped up in some field watching a large scale display. Me and fireworks share a confused relationship. I don’t trust them, they probably don’t trust me and I’m not entirely sure I
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September is my birthday month! Normally this is an occasion I shy away from, I don’t plan anything, I don’t expect anything, yet I maintain that I have the right to become royally peeved if those close to me don’t do anything special for it. There’s a long line of issues there, I know that,
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My heart began racing, pounding in my chest, my eyes darted for the exits and in my head I began to think of 1001 reasons why I wouldn’t be able to attend the next meeting. The following announcement at a CWS Networking meeting majorly triggered my body image anxiety: Such an innocent announcement, an exciting
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Back in lockdown #3 we decided that if we couldn’t travel the world then we’d bring the world to us. Each week we journeyed across the globe in food form, one week we visited France, then Brazil and Germany, Japan and India, and many more. It was a lot of fun, we discovered new family
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