Emma Mitchell
@silverpebble2.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth | BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
This evening I'll be relaunching my live online botanical and bird illustration & mental health workshops & my collecting for mental health workshops after being too unwell to teach for many months.Learn how time spent creatively shifts brain biochemistry for the better: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
This evening 👇🏼✒️🌿
Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2d agoOn Weds eve I'll be relaunching my botanical & bird illustration & mental health workshops & my small museums/collecting for mental health classes on zoom The first dates will be next month & will have limited spaces. If you'd like to buy workshop recordings my site's here: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
More photos of the larkspur at the small flower farm near Wicken, Cambridgeshire, for a good dollop of floral dopamine 🌿:
More photos of the larkspur at the small flower farm near Wicken, Cambridgeshire, for a good dollop of floral dopamine 🌿:
Tomorrow evening 👇🏼 ✒️🌿🪶🧠
Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2d agoOn Weds eve I'll be relaunching my botanical & bird illustration & mental health workshops & my small museums/collecting for mental health classes on zoom The first dates will be next month & will have limited spaces. If you'd like to buy workshop recordings my site's here: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
If you can’t resist picking up a pebble or a perfect shell at the beach this photo is for you. There are 7 scallops (the shell Botticelli’s Venus was standing in) to find among the treasure:
A few of you asked about the copper alloy fox in my latest find-the-tiny-owl photo.It’s a Tudor mount that would have decorated leather,eg a bridle. I collect ancient accessories & haberdashery-nerdy as hell 👀,but here are some medieval,Tudor, 18th-19th C buttons/clasps & a Greek coin with a 🐦 on it
You can nab 6 hrs’ of tuition(2 full zoom recordings,2 different seasons) on botanical illustration &how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health for just £25👇🏼.Drawings in next post are by beginners who attended one of my classes: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...
A few of you asked about the copper alloy fox in my latest find-the-tiny-owl photo.It’s a Tudor mount that would have decorated leather,eg a bridle. I collect ancient accessories & haberdashery-nerdy as hell 👀,but here are some medieval,Tudor, 18th-19th C buttons/clasps & a Greek coin with a 🐦 on it
Talking like a Georgian/Edwardian lady on whatsapp ✔️
On Weds eve I'll be relaunching my botanical & bird illustration & mental health workshops & my small museums/collecting for mental health classes on zoom The first dates will be next month & will have limited spaces. If you'd like to buy workshop recordings my site's here: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
A new find-the-tiny-silver-owl photo for you. It’s also worth zooming in for the silver cast I’ve made of a tiny feather, acorn, oak leaf & larch cone, a miniscule piece of coral, a pyritised ammonite & to see the design on the Victorian brooch I’m going to convert into a pendant…
A new find-the-tiny-silver-owl photo for you. It’s also worth zooming in for the silver cast I’ve made of a tiny feather, acorn, oak leaf & larch cone, a miniscule piece of coral, a pyritised ammonite & to see the design on the Victorian brooch I’m going to convert into a pendant…
Neuroaesthetics is a growing area of research showing that seeking out & engaging with images & things we find beautiful each day can significantly improve mental health-my photo of dried flowers is some neuroaesthetics for your brain. Also spot the dried viola/tiny pansy...
My brain hasn’t worked especially well today (some days recovering from a breakdown is like being down a sort of deep thought well & not being able to get to the surface in the bucket) so am having a chippy tea ✔️
This👇🏼 perfect peacock butterfly gave me such a lift. To me peacock’s eye spots are exquisite -mesmerising & ever so slightly frightening. They’re designed to distract & startle birds. Perhaps I’m part bluetit & have never realised i👀:
Neuroaesthetics is a growing area of research showing that seeking out & engaging with images & things we find beautiful each day can significantly improve mental health-my photo of dried flowers is some neuroaesthetics for your brain. Also spot the dried viola/tiny pansy...
A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
Utterly beautiful thread 👇🏼
Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 6d agoLast week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵
"I've taught my pet owl to tell jokes." "Cool. Can he tell one now?" "No, he's knock-knockturnal."
A few more gorgeous collective nouns for you… A group of: 🐞-ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’ 🪶-long tailed tits is called a ‘zephyr’ 🪶-wrens (many often squish together in nestboxes to roost at night) is called a ‘chime’ 📷: Suffolk wildlife trust 🦋-butterflies is called a ‘kaleidoscope’
Utterly beautiful thread 👇🏼
Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 6d agoLast week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵
Photographs of sea stars, collected during the Siboga Expedition around Indonesia, 1899–1900. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-sea-stars-1917
If you can’t resist picking up a pebble or a perfect shell at the beach this photo is for you. There are 7 scallops (the shell Botticelli’s Venus was standing in) to find among the treasure:
