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Make a fuss free table setting

 

make a fuss free sustainable festive table setting

 

 

I love this time of year - the way we gather together with friends and family, the pools of unfilled time.

 

 

I think it may be because, when I sold gifts and wreaths, I used to limp over the finishing line of Christmas Eve deliveries, overworked, exhausted and knowing that I had now to start on preparing my stand for the January trade shows.

 

 

sustainable Christmas settings

 

 

I am embarrassed now by the fact that I missed Christmas Day on a couple of occasions, collapsing into bed and sleeping through.

 

 

Quite what I was thinking I do not know.

 

 

So now I take things much easier - I now deliberately create a fuss free festive season, enjoying the whole process, bringing nature indoors.

 

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I have filmed a video about how I decorate the Christmas table - creating a beautiful, welcoming space with things that I already have - many of them diverted from the recycling bin. Start where you are, use what you have . . . . you can watch it here

 

 

 

 

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This week’s Friday film is about a trip to London, a tour of the Chelsea Physic garden and filling my home with flowers when I got home. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you are interested you know where to find it 🎥 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These snowdrops are temporarily holidaying in a cup on my bedroom windowsill - looking out at their rather battered friends outside. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m planning a new part of the garden at the moment and these will be part of a spreading about of the spring bulbs. Pioneers.
There is a point when the sun slants in and all the dried seed heads which have decorated the house over winter suddenly look dusty and dull. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I have a visceral need to be surrounded by things that are growing and green. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There is a video over on YouTube about planting up winter aconites and spring bulbs - I have these on my desk at the moment and every now and again there is a wonderful waft of scent reaches me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For Studio Clubbers there is now a whole module on planting up bulbs indoors in the Fire and Frost course. What varieties are best, where to get them, how to treat them and answers to a whole load of questions.
When my daughters were tiny I made their clothes - bright colourwork jumpers, patchwork dungarees, layer upon layer of pattern. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Then - ridiculously early it seemed to me - they wanted to choose their own outfits and quickly favoured whatever was fashionable, only available from mainstream shops and my needles were no longer needed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m now delighted that two decades on I’m back in action. This is the start of a mend - on my eldest daughter's denim jumpsuit. The under arm seam was ripped so I'm transforming it with linen flowers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You can see more of it in last week's Studio Vlog on YouTube . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love the idea that the mending will make the jumpsuit into something completely different. That it is as bright and clashing as her toddler clothes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’ve also been asked for mittens . . .
Today’s Friday letter is all about two steps I took last year which really helped with feelings of being overwhelmed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s Friday film is about a walk by Loch Lomond and just sitting and taking it all in and how that helps manage symptoms of my autoimmune disease. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you want to know more about either (or both) you can find the details up in my link. I’ve been in London for a couple of days - to see @thenotgodcomplex perform at The Vaults - now heading back North to see @marychapincarpenter and @karinepolwart at Celtic Connections. 💚
This photo is from last year - we are still a week or two away from full blooms. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But yesterday, lying on my front in the sodden grass and filming snowdrops, the soundtrack was birds in the birch tree above me.
I still have no water in the Studio. On Thursday when I walked up to the kitchen to make a coffee, the sun was streaming into the kitchen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I can't properly express how happy that makes me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beauty in the every day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Obviously I'm well past tidying up for photos.
I wonder if it is just when the light is least that I notice it most. The shadow of birch leaves on our bed as I passed to top up the bird feeders.
Loch Lomond is high at the moment - the beaches gone, the stepping stones to cross burns under water. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sitting, well wrapped up, leaning against a tree on the top path - listening to the waves and watching a cormorant dive - it felt like the sea. #lochlomond
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