For the last few weeks I joined in the Colour Lovers project on Instagram for the first time, encouraged by Xanthe Berkely, so I thought I’d put together a selection of my colour tables and some of the other things ‘ordinary’ things that I’ve seen...

04 March, 2016 /

This weekend I had an unplanned visit to the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield. I thought they were amazing and also loved that they were built in the 1860’s so that the scents, and colours of the exotic plants would inspire the people of Sheffield...

15 February, 2016 /

The snow from the weekend has melted, but the frost has set in this week, which is something I don’t mind at all if it doesn’t kill the echiums and the sun is shining...

20 January, 2016 /

During the Summer I went to a wedding and although I had a new dress I didn’t have a hat or headpiece which went with it, so I decided to make my own. I’m a bit obsessed with propagating succulents at the moment as they...

01 October, 2015 /

Yesterday I held my Summer workshop, only I hadn’t quite anticipated that the end of August was going to feel so much like the gateway to this year’s Autumn...

30 August, 2015 /

Being made a life band by Perry at Rhodes Wedding Co, is not only a beautiful thing to wear, but has really thrown up a lot of contemplation about life itself recently...

10 July, 2015 /

When I was growing up, my parents gave me two very different takes on the world; Dad was annoyingly straight forward and very logical and Mum was much more likely to go with the flow and get distracted...

17 June, 2015 /