I’m so excited to share my new seasonal course has arrived!
Celebrating Autumn is a 4-week course that encourages the warm embrace of seasonal inspiration and will deepen your creative connection with nature. You will head outside to enjoy the change in season, gathering and foraging inspiration for the workshops which all have a real focus on mindfulness and harnessing joyful seasonal creativity.
Read MoreAfter a beautiful Solstice spent at Stonehenge last month, and a few days away exploring Rhodes, I’m back home and ready to embrace the month of July. This month in the studio, I’m mainly working on Christmas crafts, I’m really excited about these commissions & it will be lovely to share them with you later in the year, So I’m really enjoying retreating to my garden in the evenings, where the cosmos have exploded, the roses have had a second wind and the hydrangea is blooming, helping me come back into the rhythm and magic of July after days spent singing holly jolly with baubles in hand.
Read MoreAs we head into these Summer months, find magic in the everyday and little things with a Summer Joy list. I’ve designed this floral A4 list for you to download, print and fill in with your own ideas, but if you are stuck on where to start, here are some of the ideas that are going on mine...
Read MoreAs we head towards the Summer Solstice, I’m embracing the long light days of early June, enjoying spotting all of the gardens & hedgerows completely explode with flowers and wildlife! I’m currently working on a new collection of fabric designs (very exciting!) and feeling completely inspired by beautiful colours so I have enjoyed taking lots of photos to reference colour palettes and compositions from,
and to add to my nature journal.
As we head into the Summer months of the year, the simple joy of spending time in the garden is something I’ll never take for granted, whether it’s an early morning coffee listening to the birds, popping out for a lunch break or inviting friends over for fizz in the evening, it truly is one of my favourite places to be in the summer. With that in mind, I wanted to share some very simple but effective ways to add a splash of colour joy to your space and create a beautiful summer table with just a few simple crafts…
Read Morewas delighted to be commissioned to create 3 craft projects for the June issue of The Simple Things magazine. Inspired by their theme of the month -Flower, I created a step by step guide on how to make a mini foraging kit ready to head out and capture the magic of summer…
Read MoreI’m so delighted to share my new workshop series, Painting from the Garden - A monthly workshop exploring the flowers in bloom, in the garden and learning how to paint them in a loose watercolour style.
The workshop is designed to be a creative, mindful and inspiring morning ideal for beginners who want to explore using watercolours or those interested in slowing down & seasonal living. In the first edition of the workshop series, we will be painting Peonies, Scabious, Cosmos, Sweetpeas, Phlox, Larkspur & Delphiniums creating a loose layer of watercolour and adding details with fineliners.
Read MoreHeading into a new month and I’d definitely forgotten how much I love May time, there feels like there’s been a big shift and all of a sudden we’re racing towards summertime. Although I say this whilst it’s raining outside however just think how lovely and fresh everything will look tomorrow after a good watering!
Read MoreThe 3-week course encourages the warm embrace of seasonal inspiration and will deepen your creative connection with nature. You will head outside to enjoy spring’s joyful abundance, gathering and foraging inspiration for colour palettes, textures and compositions, before learning creative techniques to turn your inspiration into a beautiful and mindful nature journal, as well as enjoying five hours of live video workshops me.
Across the sessions, I will guide you through how to find inspiration and ways to successfully capture it, creating colour palettes that embrace your seasonal findings, mindful botanical drawings, monoline calligraphy and watercolour still life painting, as well as how to create beautiful, inspiring pages in your nature journal, all with real focus mindfulness and harnessing joyful seasonal creativity.
Read MoreAs we head deeper into the season of Spring (although I know the weather can’t seem to decide what it’s doing), I’m always thinking of small ways to celebrate the magic of the every day as well as creatively connect to the season and month.
Read MoreYou may have noticed I quite like a cardboard craft project especially when it can compliment the season or time of celebration. With Easter fast approaching instead of buying anything new to decorate with, try upcycling cardboard and crafting your own Easter Garland or decorations, I think these would look great hanging on an Easter tree and they are the perfect craft for both adults and children to experiment with paint and patterns.
Read MoreAfter realising just how many Easter craft projects I’ve created over the last few years, I thought it would be nice to share some of the tutorials, that you can find online from me, to help inspire your Easter Crafting this Spring. The 3 craft ideas can all be found over on the Hobbycraft Ideas Hub with step by step images, a full material list with links, and tips and tricks from me. I’ve popped the direct links for each specific Easter craft project at the end of this post…
Read MoreEmbrace nature and sustainability to make your own seeded paper this spring. Make bundles of mini seeded notelets wrapped in gingham ribbon or whole botanical stationery set by combining your paper with pressed flowers…
Read MoreAs you may have seen on Instagram, over January I ran Celebrating Winter, A 4-week course embracing the darker days and celebrating nature with creative workshops, ideas, and inspiration. I was delighted to have a few familiar faces returning from the Autumn course and spent early December putting the final touches onto the kit design and excitedly posting them out!
January arrived and saw us come together for our first workshop where we spoke about the words and feelings we had about the month ahead before collectively exploring colour mixing to create swatches in response to the words , gaining confidence in paint mixing but also exploring our own beliefs about feelings and colours.
Read MoreWelcoming February with a sense of excitement as we head into the second half of winter edging ever closer to the joyful days of Spring.
There are lots to celebrate in February… you might have already spotted the snowdrops and camellias appearing bringing some much-needed floral magic to hedges and pathways, I always find it so exciting spotting these after months of embracing foliage and berries! The days are getting noticeably lighter, we will see an extra hour of light by the end of the month, and fingers crossed we keep enjoying the crisp but sunny days we’ve had in January, it makes such a difference getting outside in the sunshine even with a big coat and gloves on.
Read MoreI’m excited to share my first collection of craft projects of 2022, commissioned by the Hobbycraft team I’ve created 3 step by step craft tutorials for creating with resin as well as some instagram content you may have spotted over on their instagram channel showcasing the inspiration behind the projects and also a reel showing how I made & decorated the resin bud vases. Here’s a peek at the 3 projects from the collection and if you fancy trying them just click the image to take you over to the Hobbycraft Ideas hub for the full craft DIYs…
Read MoreAs we head into a new month and new year I’m looking forward to embracing the winter after the twinkly lights of christmas have been packed away, although it’s harder there’s lots of mid winter magic to be found. It’s also the perfect month for cosying up and getting creative in the darker evenings…
Read MoreCreativity doesn’t have to be painting masterpieces, for me it is all about how something makes you feel. Whether that’s creating a colour palette that fills you with joy, arranging flowers, putting on a jazzy outfit, learning something new or simply noticing a beautiful colour combination outside on a walk. Creativity is all about the process and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start, with that in mind in as we ease in to January and a new year I will be practicing more gentle creativity with no expectation but to enjoy the process, its something I’ve been doing over these days between christmas and new year and has helped to remind me how important slowing down and having fun exploring and experimenting is.
Read MoreAt this time of year most of us have a pile of cardboard ready for recycling, so this quick and sustainable Christmas craft comes at the perfect time. Today I’m sharing a craft step by step, originally created for Hobbycraft, for Scandi-inspired cardboard Christmas decorations. These star and house shape decorations look great when threaded onto foraged branches - all you need is some cardboard, twine, a paint pen and a quiet afternoon complete with your favourite Christmas songs!
Read MoreThis Christmas, one of the best gifts we can give each other is being mindful of our impact on the environment. While so many of the decorations we can buy are moving away from being throwaway pieces, there’s still something lovely about crafting something completely natural and sustainable which looks lovely and festive too.
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