Join me in Celebrating the seasons this year, with weekly nature, creativity, journaling and craft workshops…

Each month, I will be running 4 workshops to creatively celebrate the magic of that month, focusing on seasonal plants and flowers, and taking inspiration from what’s going on outside to inspire paintings, drawings, journaling and making. The first 3 sessions of each month are prerecorded and you will receive a link to a video to watch the workshop at your leisure from the chosen release date, the final session of each month will be a live workshop (with a recording available) where I’ll be sharing techniques, tips and ways to nature journal that the magic of the month.

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I was delighted to be commissioned to design and illustrate a festive window mural for ASK Italian to celebrate the Christmas season this year in my local City of Winchester.

On planning the mural, I took a trip down to ASK to have a look at the space that I would be working with for the illustration piece, I took a few photos and spoke to the team about how they wanted the ideas to work before heading back to my studio to get to work on a draft idea. Taking inspiration from the brand guidelines which included town houses, stars, sparkle and love, I wanted to draw on the housing element to create the base for my scene before adding my own personal touch with some nature elements alongside the sparkle and magic.

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Join me in celebrating winter and embracing the sense of calm and tranquillity January offers with a month of mindful creating in rhythm with the gentle pace of nature.

Designed as a completely immersive creative experience, this series of seasonal and mindful workshops will help you find and celebrate the light and magic of midwinter. Throughout the month you will be encouraged to embrace seasonal changes, deepen your creative connection with nature and create your own joy and light despite the soft cloak of darkness this time of year brings. There will be time spent outdoors in nature, foraging materials to inspire your seasonal crafts and your creativity will be further cocooned with 10 hours of live video workshops each Sunday as well as automatic access to all of the January sessions of Celebrating the Seasons.

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Following on from sharing this wreath on Instagram this week I wanted to pop a little tutorial here for anyone who fancied getting crafty but didn’t know where to start to making paper wreaths. I often use my Cricut machine for paper cutting but this week I taught a papercut workshop at a local school and remembered how fun and relaxing it is to actually cut the paper, we also used scissors rather than craft knives and mats.

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Inspired by the celestial cycle, this DIY jewellery Dish is a simple, beginner friendly craft project to try in an afternoon. With minimal materials required, you’ll be able to create something unique for yourself or to gift to friends and family, I think they would make gorgeous birthday gifts…

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This month seems to be passing by so quickly, I’m not sure if it is the heatwave and the days have just merged into one very hot blur or because I’ve been out of the studio on Holiday with friends. At the beginning of the month we went down to Brixham in Devon for a few days, exploring the town, finding secret coves, wild swimming, walking and of course lots of eating and drinking. It was the perfect 4 days of friends & fun and I’d thoroughly recommend Brixham to anyone wanting to explore Devon, we didn’t want to come home…

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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.

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After 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.

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As 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...

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As 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.

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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…

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was 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…

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I’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.

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Heading 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!

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The 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.

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As 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.

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You 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.

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After 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…

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Embrace 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…

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As 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.

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