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Category Archives: Craft & design
In search of hygge
Going back to what innately draws us as the winter season plays out its pantomime of darkness and severity, we find ourselves recognising the light of ourselves shining back at us across the cosy darkness of our most intimate living spaces, delivered straight out of the eyes of others we hold dear as we embrace the darkness to forge times of warmer glow in communion with family and friends, even strangers that have spontaneously gathered upon these terms of hospitality, conviviality and generally good vibe. The ability to create, cultivate and and sustain the spirit of hygge through the darkest of times is a skill-set we could all use, regardless of our seasonal light-quota. So, what is hygge? Here’s what it is (and I think you’ll like it)… Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art in the living space, Art transformation tool, Christmas, Craft & design, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Life choices, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Photography, Shopping, Travel
Tagged candles, celebration, coping with winter, cosy, darkness, Denmark, fireplace, happiness, heart-warming, hygge, joining with others, koselig, light, magical, Norway, shortest day, winter, winter birdsong
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Of peacocks and dragons…
(..and of suns and moons, of archangels with swords and little silver fish); bizarre as it sounds, these things make up the main substance of the story of my week. As though intent on taking me on a journey that … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art in the living space, Art purpose, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Craft & design, Culture, Divine feminine, Exhibitions, History, Holiday destinations, Leylines, Life choices, Lifestyle, Music & theatre, Nature, Personal Development, Photography, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Universe, Walks
Tagged Anarchy & Beauty, ancient salt routes, Archangel Michael, Arts & Crafts Movement, Broadsword, Chipping Campden, comfort, Cotswolds, cursory tales, dragon lines, dragons, elusive joy, energy grid, Garden Cities, halloween, Kelmscott Manor, ley lines, living with art, Michael & Mary ley line, pagan sites, peacocks, Pre-Raphaelites, protection, sacred sites, silver fish, St Michael & All Saints, Stanton village, stone circles, sun and moon, symbolic journeys, symbols & meaning, tapestries, The Hobbit, The Rollright Stones, The Song of Wandering Aengus, WB Yates, William Morris
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Living art
On Friday, my daughter and I set off on a day trip to Cambridge – or should I say pilgrimage since this is about a five-hour round trip from where we live – to visit a place called Kettle’s Yard … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art in the living space, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Craft & design, Culture, Exhibitions, Galleries, History, Life choices, Lifestyle
Tagged Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, Cambridge, Christopher Wood, Constantin Brancusi, David Jones, Harold Stanley 'Jim' Ede, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Kettle's Yard, Miro, William Congdon
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Birds, bees and candlelight
One thing I can never get enough of in my home is candlelight and that special, soft ambiance it lends to a room. In fact, there are candles of all shapes and sizes just about everywhere in my house and … Continue reading
Posted in Craft & design, Lifestyle, Shopping
Tagged candles, home accessories, home and garden, printed paper, rice paper, shopping, votives
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The magical other-world of the Christmas tree
Call it the escapist magic of the season but for as long as I can remember, the Christmas tree in our house has seemed like some sort of other dimension in which characterful little souls live in amongst dark green branches lit … Continue reading
Posted in Craft & design, Culture, Photography
Tagged christmas decorations, christmas fantasy, christmas tree, fairies
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Craft & Design at South Hill Park…20 years on!
As I stepped through the entrance of South Hill Park for their annual Craft and Design Fair the other day, it occurred to me that (gulp) I had been coming to this event, on and off, for exactly 20 years! … Continue reading
The Christmas garden
I’ve just spent a lovely couple of hours at West Green House Gardens visiting their Christmas Fair and this has become such an annual fixture in my diary that I only ever really feel that the Christmas season has started … Continue reading
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Tagged chickens, Christmas, Christmas decoration, Christmas Fair, West Green House Gardens
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Taking Liberty
A couple of days ago, I found myself amidst all the hustle and bustle of London’s Regent Street shortly after sunset and it was only then that it really hit me – like a sledgehammer – that, in commercial terms, … Continue reading
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