Why is it that food and drink tastes so much nicer eaten outdoors? It doesn’t even have to be anything lavish, no fully blown bbq or gourmet feast is required. Just a simple cuppa, boiled up in the open air and polished off on a picnic blanket by the seaside or in the back garden… Read More »
Archives for August 2017
Making a folded book
Home made nature journals are a brilliant project to undertake. It’s really simple to make your own book. A folding one is the easiest and quickest type to create – and you don’t need any drawing or painting skills to do it. Mine was made using simple leaf prints using finds I’d collected on a… Read More »
Upcycled pots
I’m pretty sure that my house is full now. After years of hanging around auction rooms and vintage fairs, there’s very little space to introduce any new furniture. Plus, we’re in the middle of the painful process of selling our house, so I’m trying to declutter rather than add to the madness. My garden is… Read More »
Decorating naturally
I go for a walk most days at this time of year. It’s partly for the exercise, but mostly because I’m addicted to collecting the seasonal treasures that appear in the hedgerows during late summer and early autumn. I rarely come back empty handed, whether it’s a bunch of cow parsley stems to spray… Read More »
Making a sun print
Guess that’s why they call it the blues… Sun prints, or cyanotype to give them their proper name, are a beautiful way to capture botanical finds on paper or fabric. Delicately precise imprints of leaves look stunning against the inky blue indigo colour that’s created. The process dates back to 1842 when scientist Sir John… Read More »