Jane’s Journal
Dye Garden: Growing on Indigo; Studio Club Private Blog
11 hours ago
Time for an introduction
introduction to Jane Lindsey of Snapdragon Life
2 weeks ago
Dye Plants; Indigo: Studio Club Private Blog
2 weeks ago
The Health Benefits of my Trip to Naples
3 weeks ago
Dye Plants: Coreopsis; Studio Club Private Blog
3 weeks ago
C17th knitted shirt inspiration; Studio Club Private Blog
3 weeks ago
Simple Italian Recipe: Escarole alla monachina
Recipe for escarole alla monachina
4 weeks ago
How I worked from Naples for a month
how I work while travelling digital nomad
1 month ago
How to know when you need to begin living more intentionally
how to know when you need to start living more intentionally slow living
1 month ago
Sowing Seeds Indoors; Studio Club Private Blog
1 month ago
Big differences between growing flowers & growing dye plants: Studio Club Private Blog
1 month ago
The Italians do vegetables differently: Studio Club Private Blog
1 month ago
Travelling solo in my Fifties
travelling solo to Naples, Italy in my fifties
1 month ago
My travel filming kit
1 month ago
How to draw like Andy Warhol: Studio Club Private Blog
2 months ago
Setting intentions with the new moon
3 months ago
How to draw a holly wreath
how to draw a holly wreath for a hand made Christmas card
4 months ago
The herbarium project
inspiration vintage herbaceous on my eco printed textiles
5 months ago
How to pick sprays of autumn leaves for decoration
how to make autumn leaves last in an arrangement.
5 months ago
Making an embroidered pincushion.
handmade pincushion from plant dyed velvet and freehand machine embroidery
6 months ago
Viv Groskop on Wild swimming: Studio Club Private Podcast
Studio Club private podcast with Viv Groskop about wild swimming and how it improved her mental health
6 months ago
The Natural Choice: Why You Should Make a Herbal Balm.
Why you should make your own herbal balm
6 months ago
Kat Goldin on running a small regenerative business: Studio Club Private podcast
Kat Goldin of Gartur Stitch Farm podcast for The Studio Club
7 months ago
Dyeing a silk camisole with fresh indigo leaves
How to dye a vintage silk camisole with fresh indigo leaves using the salt rub method
7 months ago
Harvesting dyer's chamomile from the dye garden
harvesting anthemis tinctoria, dyer's chamomile in the dye garden and planning new craft kits in natural dyeing
8 months ago
How to create colour with fresh leaf indigo
how to dye silk with fresh leaf indigo
8 months ago
Hannah Nunn on Creating a Sustainable Business: Studio Club Private Podcast
Hannah Nunn designer talks about creating a sustainable business
8 months ago
Make a knitted loop scarf from your stash
free knitting pattern striped scarf
9 months ago
Botanical Dyeing Press workshop, Fodder and Farm
eco printing with foraged plants, sweet Cicely, rosebay willow herb
9 months ago
Becky O'Cole on being a family herbalist: Studio Club Private Podcast
Becky O Cole author of The Garden Apothecary in conversation about folk remedies, small business and family life
9 months ago
Love Letters to the Land; Gartur Farm
a tour of the exhibition "Love Letters to the Land", Gartur Stitch Farm, Port of Menteith
10 months ago
Hanging the Love Letters to the Land exhibition at Fodder and Farm
quilt making exhibition at Fodder and Farm, Scotland
10 months ago
Simple crusty no knead bread
making simple no knead bread
1 year ago
How to grow sweet peas from seed
How to grow sweet peas from seed in UK
1 year ago
How to transform the way you plan out your time
free four part planning course to plan your year 2023
1 year ago
Make a fuss free table setting
making a sustainable seasonal festive table setting for Christmas
1 year ago
Making a knitted coat hanger
make a striped knitted clothes hanger beginner knit
1 year ago
Collecting acorns at Loch Lomond
a walk to Loch Lomond to collect acorns for natural dyeing
1 year ago
Natural Dyes: Fig leaves
natural plant based dyeing with fig leaves ficus
1 year ago
"Birch leaves in a bottle" embroidery part two
embroidered and appliqué picture of birch leaves in a bottle by Jane Lindsey of Snapdragon Life
1 year ago
Natural Dyes: Dyeing wool with Plum bark
how to dye wool with plum bark, natural dyeing, sustainable clothes
1 year ago
"Birch leaves in a bottle" embroidery part one
mindful sewing, slow stitch embroidery made from plant dyed and vintage fabrics
1 year ago
Eco printing on paper with Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
eco print course in Scotland eco printing with garden plants
1 year ago
Mindful sewing project - Patchwork Christmas stocking pattern
Patchwork Christmas stocking pattern
1 year ago
Visible mending on a knitted jumper
creative visible mending of jumper, wool darning, sustainable fashion
1 year ago
The joy of a sitooterie
Making an outdoor space for working during the winter sitooterie
1 year ago
A revolt against capitalism
Running an anti capitalist business in a period of degrowth
1 year ago
Can a sense of belonging save the world?
A Seasonal Way course How a sense of belonging and empowerment can connect people to the natural world
1 year ago
Dyeing wool with dahlia flowers
dyeing wool yarn with dahlia flowers, flowers for natural dyeing
1 year ago
Blackcurrant and miso ice cream
blackcurrant and miso ice cream recipe
1 year ago
On being social - Instagram changes and virtual coffee breaks
Instagram changes 2022 and the way that social media has shaped my life
1 year ago
Dyeing wool with bracken - an experiment in changing the pH
Dyeing wool with bracken to get a range of colours by altering pH and modifying with iron
1 year ago
Making time (or swapping it)
time management and creating a slower life
1 year ago
Natural Dyeing: Flag iris root part two
dyeing wool with flag iris roots historic dye
1 year ago
Miss Willmott's Ghosts
Miss Willmott's ghost book
1 year ago
Getting the Best from your Sweetpeas
tips on how to treat sweet peas to get the most flowers
1 year ago
Pickled garlic scape recipe
recipe for pickled garlic scape
1 year ago
Why we keep the edges wild . . .
leaving the edges of the garden wild we are an ark
1 year ago
Mingun Tomato Salad Recipe
Burmese Myanmar tomato salad recipe
1 year ago
Getting started with birdwatching and binoculars
beginning birdwatching
1 year ago
Broad beans and garlic scapes on toast
recipe for broad beans and garlic scapes with whipped feta
1 year ago
Late bloomers: lessons from nature
being a late bloomer in life
1 year ago
Rose and honeysuckle syrup
recipe for rose and honeysuckle syrup
1 year ago
Bracken folklore and history
History and folklore of bracken
1 year ago
Buttercups as cut flowers
Using buttercups as cut flowers
1 year ago
A new definition of wealth
a new definition of wealth Charles Eisenstein
1 year ago
Allt y Bela garden
Tour of garden at Allt y Bela
1 year ago
Natural dyeing: Sweet Cicely
Plant dying with sweet Cicely myrrhis odorata, step by step how to tutorial
1 year ago
Cow parsley freehand embroidery
learning how to do freehand machine embroidery
1 year ago
Dyeing with bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus)
1 year ago
House Martins
nature notes on house martins
1 year ago
The Hawthorn Tree - Magic and Ritual
hawthorn tree celebrations Neo paganism Beltane
1 year ago
How to Rescue Flopped Tulips
how to rescue drooping tulips, cut flower care
2 years ago
What to look for in April
2 years ago
Spring celebration lunch
spring celebration seasonal lunch rhubarb cake and kale frittata
2 years ago
Bring spring inside - lesser celandines in pots
growing celandines and spring plants in pots indoors
2 years ago
Getting back to making clothes
starting to making your own clothes, freehand machine embroidery
2 years ago
Bringing the outdoors in: February bulbs
growing iris reticulata bulbs indoors
2 years ago
The joy of snail mail and how to send more letters
sending proper letters slow mail
2 years ago
Rainy days in December
2 years ago
Foraged Wreath
2 years ago
Making preserved lemons
how to make preserved lemons recipe
2 years ago
Alignment and making things easy
how to create aligned brand values for a small business
2 years ago
What is your idea of a simple Christmas?
2 years ago
Wrapping with tiny dogwood hoops
ideas for sustainable foraged gift wrap and table decorations
2 years ago
Radicchio and hazelnut pesto
radicchio and hazelnut pesto recipe
2 years ago
Making an honesty garland
how to make foraged decoration honesty garland decorate party
2 years ago
Getting started with overdyeing
using overdyeing in plant dyes natural dyes
2 years ago
Natural dyeing: Flag Iris root on linen
using flag iris roots to create a black dye
2 years ago
Gaps and Fire Breaks - simple tips for when life is too busy
how to reduce overwhelm
2 years ago
Nant y Bedd Garden, Brecon Beacons
Garden at Nant y Bedd in Brecon Beacons
2 years ago
Dyeing with Hopi sunflower seeds (Tceqa' Qu' Si)
dyeing with hopi sunflower seeds, natural dye
2 years ago
Scampston Hall Gardens
Tour of Scampston Hall Gardens, Yorkshire, Piet Oudolf
2 years ago
Fig Leaf Ice cream
recipe for fig leaf ice cream
2 years ago
Tour of the Studio and Meadow
2 years ago
Five good things I've learned from having a chronic auto immune disease
living with a chronic illness Addisons disease
2 years ago
Nettle pasta
recipe for nettle pasta
2 years ago
Baby chicks
baby chicks in Snapdragon's garden
2 years ago
Making a Midsummer Wreath
making a grass wreath, everlasting flower wreath
2 years ago
Making calendula tea
making a calendula tea
2 years ago
Dyeing cotton yarn with nettles
How to dye cotton yarn with nettles, natural dye
2 years ago
In the garden with Xanthe Gladstone
Xanthe Gladstone has kindly shared her recipe for radish and carrot kimchi
2 years ago
Dyeing wool with nettles
Dyeing wool with nettles, natural dye
2 years ago
Growing and Drying Calendula
growing and drying calendula flowers for herbal balms
3 years ago
Forcing spring branches
How to force spring branches
3 years ago
Making a peg bag
making a linen peg back step by step
3 years ago
My first nature table
3 years ago
Making daisy balm
How to make a soothing daisy balm for bruises
3 years ago
Dyeing wool with onions
Dyeing wool with onions
3 years ago
How shrinking my business increased my income.
The minimal viable number of customers, slow business
3 years ago
Make a gilded oak wreath
gilded oak leaf and willow wreath simple make for Christmas
3 years ago
Make Sumayya Usmani's Attock Chana Rijai
Recipe Sumayya Usmani's Attock Chana Rijai
3 years ago
Bowl of Paperwhite Narcissi
planting up a bowl of bulbs
3 years ago
Choosing the most eco friendly gift wrap options
eco gift wrapping
3 years ago
The Studio Club - Roots and Wings
Snapdragon Studio Club
3 years ago
Using pressed leaves to decorate gift wrap
pressed leaves decorating natural gift wrap.
3 years ago
Overwintering Dahlias - What I do
overwintering dahlias in the garden UK
3 years ago
How to force fritillaries
How to force fritillaries
3 years ago
How to practice gratitude
simple ways to practice gratitude
3 years ago
Making an honesty wreath
how to make an everlasting wreath from honesty seed pods tutorial
3 years ago
Introducing a pay what you can option for Studio Club membership
disruptive business models
3 years ago
Solar dyeing wool
how to set up a solar dye jar to natural dye wool
3 years ago
Tansy - its history and use
Tansy history and use, natural plant dyes
3 years ago
Making healthy herbal vinegars
making herbal and floral vinegars
3 years ago
Making bath soaks
making herbal bath soaks
3 years ago
Dyeing wool with dahlias
dyeing with dahlia flowers, natural dye
3 years ago
Making calendula oil
Making calendula oil from fresh flowers
3 years ago
Getting to know Anja Dunk
Interview with cook Anja Dunk Dumplings
3 years ago
Fiona Barrows and the joy of the allotment
Interview with Fiona Barrows about her allotment
3 years ago
The Studio Meadow
making a perennial meadow in Scotland
3 years ago
Interview: The Laughing Cactus
Interview with the Laughing Cactus sustainable making
3 years ago
Visible mending with Flora Collingwood-Norris
visible mending with Flora Collingwood Norris, decorative Manding
3 years ago
Interview: creative mending with Flora Collingwood-Norris
Interview with Flora Collingwood Norris, decorative mending
3 years ago
Interview: The Bright Blooms
Interview with The Bright Blooms sustainable making
3 years ago
Everyone has a right to learn how to cook: Kaleyard Community Kitchen
Kaleyard Community Kitchen, interview with Sumayya Usmani
3 years ago
Xanthe Gladstone's radish and carrot kimchi
interview with Xanthe Gladstone, radish and carrot kimchi
3 years ago
Growing winter salad
how to grow winter salad
3 years ago
Warm rose petal and roast tomato harissa
A delicious homemade rose and roast tomato harissa recipe
3 years ago
A note on wild swimming
Kat Goldin on wild swimming in Scotland
3 years ago
Mint, Ginger and Lemon Refresher
Blow away the cobwebs with a mint, ginger, and lemon refresher
3 years ago
The history of Scotland's kelp industry
3 years ago
Where selkies swim: meet Alison Moore
Alison Moore on sea swimming in Orkney
3 years ago
Making a rose lip balm
make a rose lip balm
3 years ago
How to make cut flowers last
how to make garden flowers last in the vase. Get longer vase life from flowers
3 years ago
Plantain and nettle balm
Plantago lanceolata history and use, ribwort plantain, balm recipe
3 years ago
The good foraging code
good foraging code
3 years ago
Scotch broom as a dye plant
dying wool with scotch broom Cytisus scoparius
3 years ago
Poppies as cut flowers - how to make them last
how to arrange poppies as cut flowers
3 years ago
Foraging for wood sorrel
Foraging for wood sorrel with recipe
3 years ago
Grow your own salad leaf mix
growing salad seeds in pots
4 years ago
Make your own box loom
how to make a box loom
4 years ago
Ideas for greening when you need to stay indoors
how does being in nature help with chronic illness. Tips for chronic health problems Addisons disease
4 years ago
Making a jam jar 'terrarium' of crocus
Make your own terrarium of crocus
4 years ago
Grow your own cup of snowdrops
how to grow your own cup of snowdrops
4 years ago
The lotus weavers of Myanmar
Lotus weavers of Lake Isle, Myanmar, Burma. Tour of weaving workshop
4 years ago
Make your own felt Christmas tree
how to make a felt vintage Christmas tree decoration
4 years ago
It's not about the bread
slow down simple living and making sourdough bread
4 years ago
Making Simple Festive Table Decorations
tutorial to make simple seasonal Christmas table decorations
4 years ago
Seeing yourself
seeing yourself through other eyes and friendship
4 years ago
Make a pretty honesty heart
making a heart decoration
4 years ago
Making a dogwood wreath
making a heart wreath with dogwood prunings and dried flowers
4 years ago
Radical Self Compassion - Should we begin?
Radical compassion and loving ourselves.
4 years ago
Knit your own mug cosy
knitting kit free pattern for mug cosy
4 years ago
Simple beeswax wraps
make your own beeswax wraps instructions
4 years ago
Dyeing socks with acorns
4 years ago
Create your magical life a little bit at a time
How to plan your year and find time for the things you love.
4 years ago
Natural gift wrap - autumn leaves
4 years ago
Five ways to step back from overwhelm
5 ways to get over overwhelm
4 years ago
Making a Knitted Soap Saver
free patterns for making a soap saving mitt
4 years ago
Perfectionism and making do
how to get over perfectionism
4 years ago
Natural Gift Wrapping 1 - Pressing Leaves
making zero waste gift wrap tutorial pressed leaves
4 years ago
Making Pineapple Weed Ice Cream
making foraged pineapple weed ice cream
4 years ago
Peri-Menopausal Tea?
making clover tea for menopause and peri-menopause
4 years ago
Un-paper towels tutorial
making your own kitchen towel alternative tutorial
4 years ago
The Productive Garden part two
growing a hardy annual productive patch
4 years ago
Making produce bags for zero waste shopping
making your own produce bags for zero waste shopping
4 years ago
The Perennial Meadow 2019
perennial meadow planting
4 years ago
The productive garden
Snapdragon's garden visiting
4 years ago
How to grow wallflowers
how to grow wallflowers from seed sunset apricot
4 years ago
In search of the simple life
looking for the simple life
4 years ago
Myanmar salad recipe for flowering salad leaves.
recipe for Myanmar Burmese salad with crispy shallots flowering kale
5 years ago
How to force small spring bulbs indoors
growing flowering bulbs indoors spring snowdrops crocus
5 years ago
Indoor bulbs - the cheats version
growing hyacinth bulbs inside
5 years ago
Traditional small scale agriculture
air BnB experiences finca visit
5 years ago
Planting tulips
planting tulips in heavy soil. how to get repeat blooms from tulips.
5 years ago
Store Cupboard Lentil Soup
store cupboard lentil and tomato soup.
5 years ago
Decorating squash for Autumn and Halloween
decorating a pumpkin with pen and ink
5 years ago
Overwhelm and the fruit harvest
how to deal with overwhelm in your business - my 3 techniques for helping with small business overwhelm
5 years ago
Making Calendula Balm or Salve
making natural remedies, calendula salve and balm, calendula oil, calendula bath soak
5 years ago
Making dried apple rings with a dehydrator
how to make dried apple rings in a dehydrator
5 years ago
Drying honesty seedheads
making things, honesty wreath, do it yourself honesty wreath decoration
5 years ago
How to collect seeds from your garden
collecting seeds from flowers in your garden
5 years ago
Foraging for flowers
foraging for wild flowers and making arrangements from grass
5 years ago
The windowsill flower arrangement - white
tips for arranging flowers in bottles
5 years ago
A walk by Loch Lomond
walking loch lomond national park, Scotland
5 years ago
How to keep a tidy house (sort of)
how to have a calm house when you are a messy person
5 years ago
Sweet cicely, rhubarb and ginger compote
sweet cicely and rhubarb compote recipe with downloadable recipe card
5 years ago
Just a little posy of flowers . .
making tiny flower arrangements for bedside tables, weddings and guest bedrooms.
5 years ago
The accidental foraging expert (my tv appearance)
recipe for foraged nettle risotto
5 years ago
How to make your flowers go further
how to make a bunch of flowers last longer
5 years ago
How to pick hellebores for the house
how to cut and condition hellebores
5 years ago
How to make spring flowers last longer
how to make spring flowers last a long time in a vase
5 years ago
Peak Yellow - seasonal musings
yellow is the colour of spring.
5 years ago
Gluten free, sugar free (but still delicious) brownies
gluten and sugar free beetroot brownie recipe
5 years ago
3 ideas for getting into the flow
3 ways to increase the flow in your life
5 years ago
Goats cheese with edible flowers recipe
making floral goats cheese with edible flowers
6 years ago
Seasonal living - why I left my great job because I didn't see Spring.
why Snapdragon is all about seasonal living
6 years ago
Snakeshead fritillaries - my favourite spring meadow plant
growing a fritilaria meleagris snakehead fritillary meadow
6 years ago
Aiming for analogue - switching off my phone
phone addiction and how to stop it.
6 years ago
How to deter slugs from seedlings
Organic control of slugs in garden and poly tunnel
6 years ago
Making hyacinth napkin rings
making hyacinth napkin rings to decorate table for easter
6 years ago
The Perennial Meadow Experiment
creating a perennial meadow
6 years ago
Designer Spotlight - Hannah Nunn
hannah nunn lighting design botanical wallpaper
6 years ago
Sourdough banana bread saved us from the snow
best recipe for sourdough banana bread
6 years ago
How to store seeds
how to store seeds long term for successional planting
6 years ago
Making the cutting garden part 1
how to make a cutting garden snapdragon's garden
6 years ago
Learning about fermentation at Gartur Stitch Farm
fermented food at Gartur Farm Stirlingshire sourdough bread workshop
6 years ago
The magic of the alder tree
The alder tree, superstition, history, folklore
6 years ago
Rosemary Napkin Rings
making rosemary napkin rings as sustainable Christmas table decorations
6 years ago
Drawing a Christmas wreath
How to draw a Christmas wreath with a finaliser pen - free tutorial
6 years ago
Making dried leaf rings
Making a pressed autumn leaf ring decoration for Christmas
6 years ago
Where we are - Loch Lomond National Park
Have you ever wondered where Snapdragon is based? Read my blog post . . .
6 years ago
Collecting seeds from your garden
Collecting seeds from your garden diy seedpackets free pattern
6 years ago
The magical machair
Photos of Machair wild flowers in the Outer Hebrides
6 years ago
Broadwoodside Garden, Gifford
A tour of Broadwoodside Garden, Scotland
6 years ago
Iris chrysographes
iris chrysographes
6 years ago
Naturalising alliums.
growing alliums in meadows
6 years ago
Making Embroidered Pillowcases -
making an embroidered cacti pillowcase
6 years ago
Scannography
scannography
6 years ago
A Room of One's Own - .
making a workspace
7 years ago
Taking a lesson from Barbara Hepworth.
8 years ago
Jane's house is in 25 Beautiful Homes magazine this month!
25 beautiful homes snapdragon
8 years ago
Great Glen Charcuterie
Great Glen Charcuterie
8 years ago
Common Farm Flowers -
common farm flowers
8 years ago
The meadow gets better and better
Snapdragon Online planting a meadow
9 years ago
Snapdragon's meadow in August -
making a meadow in Scotland for Snapdragon Online
9 years ago
June in Snapdragon's Garden
Snapdragon's garden transformation
9 years ago
The new meadow - garden transformation June
planting a meadow
9 years ago
My top tip for avoiding droopy daisies.
top tips for cutting garden flowers
9 years ago
Romantic table flowers
flower arranement for wedding tables
9 years ago
Vitamin central - green herb and yoghurt soup
green vitamin soup
9 years ago
We didn't buy a house . . .
blue bell wood in Scotland
9 years ago
Garden Transformation - May
tulip fire in the garden
9 years ago
Rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup
rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup
9 years ago
The nature table windowsill.
nature tables, flower arranging on a budget, arranging garden flowers
10 years ago
My top 5 spring flowers for cutting
spring flowers cut flower tips
10 years ago
On being called lazy
18 years ago
