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How I worked from Naples for a month

how I work while travelling digital nomad

4 days 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 week ago

Sowing Seeds Indoors; Studio Club Private Blog

1 week ago

Big differences between growing flowers & growing dye plants: Studio Club Private Blog

2 weeks ago

The Italians do vegetables differently: Studio Club Private Blog

3 weeks ago

Travelling solo in my Fifties

travelling solo to Naples, Italy in my fifties

3 weeks ago

My travel filming kit

3 weeks ago

How to draw like Andy Warhol: Studio Club Private Blog

1 month ago

Setting intentions with the new moon

2 months ago

How to draw a holly wreath

how to draw a holly wreath for a hand made Christmas card

3 months ago

The herbarium project

inspiration vintage herbaceous on my eco printed textiles

4 months ago

How to pick sprays of autumn leaves for decoration

how to make autumn leaves last in an arrangement.

4 months ago

Making an embroidered pincushion.

handmade pincushion from plant dyed velvet and freehand machine embroidery

5 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

5 months ago

The Natural Choice: Why You Should Make a Herbal Balm.

Why you should make your own herbal balm

5 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

6 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

6 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

7 months ago

How to create colour with fresh leaf indigo

how to dye silk with fresh leaf indigo

7 months ago

Hannah Nunn on Creating a Sustainable Business: Studio Club Private Podcast

Hannah Nunn designer talks about creating a sustainable business

7 months ago

Make a knitted loop scarf from your stash

free knitting pattern striped scarf

8 months ago

Botanical Dyeing Press workshop, Fodder and Farm

eco printing with foraged plants, sweet Cicely, rosebay willow herb

8 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

8 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

9 months ago

Hanging the Love Letters to the Land exhibition at Fodder and Farm

quilt making exhibition at Fodder and Farm, Scotland

9 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

1 year ago

What to look for in April

1 year ago

Spring celebration lunch

spring celebration seasonal lunch rhubarb cake and kale frittata

1 year 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

2 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

3 years ago

Make your own box loom

how to make a box loom

3 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

3 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

4 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

5 years ago

Seasonal living - why I left my great job because I didn't see Spring.

why Snapdragon is all about seasonal living

5 years ago

Snakeshead fritillaries - my favourite spring meadow plant

growing a fritilaria meleagris snakehead fritillary meadow

5 years ago

Aiming for analogue - switching off my phone

phone addiction and how to stop it.

5 years ago

How to deter slugs from seedlings

Organic control of slugs in garden and poly tunnel

5 years ago

Making hyacinth napkin rings

making hyacinth napkin rings to decorate table for easter

5 years ago

The Perennial Meadow Experiment

creating a perennial meadow

5 years ago

Designer Spotlight - Hannah Nunn

hannah nunn lighting design botanical wallpaper

5 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.

7 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

9 years ago

My top 5 spring flowers for cutting

spring flowers cut flower tips

10 years ago

On being called lazy

18 years ago

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