🦋 Made from plants that surround the tucked away garden bench where they were worked, a little batch of lavender filled crochet woollen butterflies to safely store away summer things with, their natural colours yielded from botanical dyes of buddleja, elderflower, & lavender...

🌱 Flowers for Friday & with the return of the rains so much of the garden has sprung to life again! So sprigs of buddleja, lavender, daisies, colts foot, curling ferns, & fragrant grapefruit mint...

🐌Snippets of a snail slow life - a tiny bouquet of garden gathered flowers; crocheting butterflies using botanically home dyed wool; adding tassels to naturally coloured wooden flat baubles; & a fifty pence Friday at the favourite charity shop find of a faux agate leaf brooch...

🐾 Yorkshire Water are digging up one garden (& the street & the road!) so we decided to do our own engineering works in the other for to replace the rotted gatepost - utterly cream crackered but the task is done! Now for a brew & not moving from an armchair until tomorrow...

🐌 Rainy afternoon kitchen table crafting using a charity shop found vintage gardening book for to make pretty seed envelopes, filled with seeds dried & saved from the tiny terrace garden & a tiny snail model all ready for gifting along with a snaily folk seed sowing saying...

🧶 A woof & wander for the inaugural wear of the Tidal Treasures Cardigan - stormy blue vintage '60s cat eye buttons were the perfect finishing touch for this knitting project, thank you for the style advice folks! And yep, by the third snap Dave was getting quite heavy indeed...

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - wearing a just finished hand knit cardigan for a little woof & wander; a bowl of foraged elderberries found for natural dyeing; the return of His Tiny Highnesses garden squirrel nemesis; a rainy afternoon seed saving at the kitchen table...

🐌 Rainy afternoon kitchen table crafting using a charity shop found vintage gardening book for to make pretty seed envelopes, filled with seeds dried & saved from the tiny terrace garden & a tiny snail model all ready for gifting along with a snaily folk seed sowing saying...

🧶 A woof & wander for the inaugural wear of the Tidal Treasures Cardigan - stormy blue vintage '60s cat eye buttons were the perfect finishing touch for this knitting project, thank you for the style advice folks! And yep, by the third snap Dave was getting quite heavy indeed...

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - wearing a just finished hand knit cardigan for a little woof & wander; a bowl of foraged elderberries found for natural dyeing; the return of His Tiny Highnesses garden squirrel nemesis; a rainy afternoon seed saving at the kitchen table...

✨ Today is for being tired, so we are being slug a beds & snoozing the day away - catch up tomorrow lovely folk!

🐌 And an almost finished knitting project of Tidal Treasures Cardigan designed by Drops - it has been languishing in the work basket since '23! Now just the serious business of button choosing to be done - vintage cat eye in a suitable stormy blue, or cheery kitsch anchors...?

🦋 Natural dyeing with garden gathered buddleja blooms that have yielded the beautiful botanical colours of sunshine yellow from the flowers alone & moss green by saddening with iron - have a notion to store these skeins away as a gift of summer in the dark depths of winter...

🌼A makeover indeed! This fifty pence charity shop find of a wooden tray has been brightened with some pink wood paint & then a patchwork of flower hexagons cut from a vintage garden book glued & varnished securely into place - now it shall host handmade projects & cups of tea...

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - & it is a bevy of beauties to share with buddleja flower home dyed wool in sunshine yellow & moss green; seed grown cosmos blooming bright; a malingering knitting project done but for the buttons; a ta dah of a second hand tray makeover...

🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & huge hushed downpours have finally returned to thirsty land! The wish for all good folks is to take each season at a gentle pace, to enjoy the sun & delight in the rain, remembering that together they make the sweet garden apples grow...

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - a little catch up of peony delights from earlier in this sun drenched summer, including making peony flower jam which was deliciously floral & rather lovely heaped on crumpets...

🌱 Flowers on Friday, & a simple arrangement of scorchingly bright spikes of crocosmia, alongside taking harvest of the drought dried leaves for to tickle a certain snoozing sausage dog, but also to store away in the hopes of trying a hand at cordage making come the autumn...

🐌 The favourite local charity shop is doing fifty pence Friday so popped along & found a small tray most in need of a tiny terrace style floral makeover, & a chunky vintage plant book with nefarious vague future plans for to turn the pages into giftable pretty seed envelopes...

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - nasturtiums growing good & green from a hollowed out sycamore stump down the bottom of the garden; fifty pence Friday finds at the favourite charity shop; fire bright crocosmia in a vintage vase; a little snaily friend travelling the steps...

🦋 The little colour cauldron is bubbling away again with butterfly bush buddleja blooms garden gathered for to botanically dye wool! Feeling much more up to snuff doing familiar happy things of flower picking & finding natural colour, accompanied as ever by His Tiny Highness...

🐾A Dave update - he's doing so well now, but has had ops in a continuous saga of an unerupted baby fang jaw infection. In the first surgery his heart failed with over 2 mins of him being gone & requiring resuscitation, then insisted on walking himself out after the whole ordeal!

🐌 Hello again lovely folks - there have been gentle days dreaming amidst drifts of bee humming garden clover, the sun soothing us through recovering from our various ailments, so most happy to announce we are tentatively returning with shenanigans of our snail slow living...

🐌Sorry to have worried folks by being absent but was rather suddenly & spectacularly unwell with sepsis complications - struggling to find my feet with this new variety of normal so expect to be offline a bit longer & a huge thank you for the kind well wishes here & in the post!

🧶 In need of a sitting still day so began stitching little flowers on the newly knitted chunky yellow jumper - the wool used has a lovely rustic roughspun feel, lending a folksy style to the embroidered blooms that with a bit more work will become a spring petal wreathed yoke...

✨ Apologies - didn't mean to post & run yesterday - currently slowly recovering from sepsis damage & had a funny turn with a most unfunny fall to follow, so needing to be very gentle & restful with my silly little self!

🌿 Home gathered flowers for Friday - the garden here at the tiny terrace is in fine spring form offering up drifts of purple blooming honesty, green tendrils of fragrant thyme, fairy hat worthy spikes of bluebells, & eternal favourites of blue forget me nots...

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - buttery thumbprint biscuits baked with sea buckthorn jam (tastes both deliciously tart & tropical for those wondering!); knitting done on the yellow jumper so time to move to embroidery embellishments; a happy little garden gathered bouquet...

🐾 Under bright sun & scudding dark clouds for a ta dah! of the finished crochet patchwork heart rug made for His Tiny Highness - an elevenses treat of a fortune cookie was the bribe for being photographed, & the fortune was most suited indeed to this stubborn little sausage...

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - returning to unfinished projects in a fit of resolve for to complete them, starting with a mostly done knitted chunky jumper; rich pink blossom beginning on sapling mini martini crab apples; awed by a most majestic beshelled garden beastie...