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On hope
I am really enjoying Sas Petherick's My Mindful Year project, and April's prompt was about finding moments of hope. It got me thinking about what hope really is, and how it works, where it leads us and...
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Apothecary gardens
I have always been intrigued by the idea of apothecaries and physic gardens, but in the last few years as we have been growing increasing amounts of herbs in our garden I have wanted to understand more...
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Something beautiful: Graham Thomas roses
Oh dear, my poor neglected blog! I want to thank each one of you that persists in reading my sporadic posts, there seems so little time to write here whilst trying to run my jewellery business and all...
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Happy Weekend
Have you got some happy planned for the weekend? Although there are often chores to do, errands to run, things that run more to obligation than pleasure sometimes, I always try to make sure there is...
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new Wild Acre jewellery and website
It has been a wonderful, happily chaotic, family oriented summer, which means my little space here has been sadly neglected! However, lots has been happening, the website has had a pretty, wee overhaul...
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manna {1} the lane that leads to home
MANNA: Full Definition of manna. 1 a : food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness b : divinely supplied spiritual nourishment c : a usually sudden and...
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manna {2} a bowl of soup on a grey day
It is a good thing: a steaming bowl of hearty soup on a chilly, late autumn day.On a cold, dark lunchtime in november, alone in the house, it made sense to make something warm and cosy and nourishing....
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manna {3} oak trees
This is a good thing: mighty oak trees seem able to hang onto their leaves for a bit longer than most...Today, I stood underneath this one that has reached over the river behind my house for more than...
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manna {4} when a plan comes together as a designer maker
This is a good thing: when a moment of inspiration, some planning and working and making and mistakes and redesigning and making some more and trusting your setter all comes together to create...
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manna {5} trees at twilight
This is a good thing: the upside of leaf fall is the tracery of branches, especially at twilight.
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manna {6} sky and water
This is a good thing: at the weekend I watched the Suffolk sea and skyscapes melting into each other as dusk approached. I have got the busiest two weeks of my working year now, and this moment to...
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manna {7} frosts
This is a good thing: The raw energy of sharp frost. There is something so energetic about the first few sharp frosts of the season, they wake up the senses like a blast of lemon juice to the mouth or...
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manna {8} last of the leaves
This is a good thing: the last of the oak leaves strew the lanes and riverbanks around my home, and I am holding on to the vestiges of colour.
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manna {9} winter reflections
This good thing: low slung winter sunlight reflected in giant puddles.
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manna {10} finding my business mojo
This good thing: discovering that there are ways of communicating my creative endeavours, ways of presenting, talking about and selling my work that feel so much more natural, so much more 'me' and so...
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manna {11} wabi sabi beauty
There is a Japanese traditional aesthetic that searches for and finds beauty in the simplest of places, often in fragile, worn, and unshowy items. This time of year, when plants are pared back and...
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manna {12} horizons
Happy New year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and holiday time, my online time was kept to a minimum with all my family home, but it is good to be back in this tiny corner of the internet!So...
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manna {13} botanical sketchbook
This good thing: I have cracked out this year's botanical sketchbook. I have had my first tentative scribbles, more of them later I hope to keep a fairly full jounal of finds and sketches through the...
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manna {14} fairmined gold and silver
This good thing: fulfilling a long held goal for Wild Acre in 2017 before the end of January!I am delighted to say that I am now a licencee for Fairmined gold and silver as well as Fairtrade Gold. This...
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manna {15} january light
This good thing: the weather has been Baltic but the light, whether bright and jagged or diffused in milky mists, has been breathtaking.It is always about the light, isn't it? The quality of it, the...
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manna {16} baltic bubbles
This good thing: the weather has taken another turn for the Baltic, but the upside is the frozen bubbles in puddles, and the frost on stalks and fronds. There is always something that catches the...
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How walking helps wellness
I have written a personal post about the wonders of walking over at Haelen Therapy's blog, do take a look here. Does any of it resonate with you? x
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manna {17} Spring at last
Spring is suddenly here, all green shoots and breezy sunshine and showers, and I am so ready for it! Everywhere I look there are new signs of the earth waking up, and with it I am noticing a much...
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manna {18} surprise encounter
Recently I have decided that, because my job is so sedentary, I need to make my daily walks and/or runs a bit longer, trying to aim for 7-10km a day. This means that I am that much more steeped in the...
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A grieving Manchester mother shows the way
I wrote a post about alliums here yesterday and then deleted it, it suddenly felt too soon and weirdly inappropriate whilst all the horrors in Manchester were still sinking in. I tried to drag my mind...
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