In my Etsy shop for Autumn

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The last of this year's Little Egret hand modified lino cuts prints :

This Spring (2024) a small flock of Little Egrets visited the flooded fields nearby, grazing in the shallow waters for several weeks. Little Egrets can often be found in the bird reserves near Glastonbury and, as a birdwatcher, I was delighted to be able to see these birds close to home and they inspired this linocut of a wading Little Egret by me. This hand modified linocut print is left loose in a card mount so it can either be framed or used as a card. It is supplied with an envelope and the card is blank inside for your own message.

Three original watercolour cards of Somerset:

These three watercolours were painted by me in 2021 and 2022 and I have turned them into greetings cards. Each card is blank inside for your own message or could be framed to make a piece of instant art. 

They are all scenes from Somerset:

Brean Down and Steep Holm from Weston-Super-Mare. (landscape format)

Sheep on the Quantock Hills. (Portrait format)

View of Exmoor from Kilve beach, Somerset. (Landscape format)

Summer in the garden, everything flowering all at the same time...

 

A quick update on some of the flowers in the garden this summer. A few might seem to be weeds to some, but I find them to be useful as pollinator foods and very pretty as well. (A lawn with white clover smells gorgeous and is good for common blue butterflies and bees.) I admit, due to the very wet spring, the bindweed is ferocious this year but autumn pulling and digging will get it back under control for next year and for now, the white flowers are appealing. The very wet Spring seems to have triggered a profusion of flowers with everything flowering all at the same time... these are some that caught my eye today.

Self-Heal (butterflies and bees)

Snapdragon (bumblebees)

Crocosmia (pollinating insects)

Valerian (all insects plus moths like the hummingbird hawkmoth)

Bindweed (pollinating insects)

Buddleia (pollinating insects, in particular moths and butterflies)

white clover (bumble bees, common blue butterfly)

lawn flowers!

roses (good for this human!)

fox and cubs (bees)

Love in a mist seed heads (for next years' garden!)

Buddleia 

Chicory (bees)

Sweet William (bees)

Cornflower (pollinating insects)

Calendula (pollinating insects)

Saturday 25th May Bank Holiday Craft Fair 2024

 Very much looking forward to the next craft fair on the Bank Holiday Saturday, 25th May, in Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset with West Country Fairs. I'll have a range of crochet and handmade items including a couple of new linocuts for this year based on Glastonbury Tor and the Little Egrets who who visited our local flooded fields this Spring.

hand dyed crochet items

Small linocut prints. (Tor & Stile)

Cards and prints.

Handmade crochet and fabric items.

Dip-dyed paper collages. (Overhead I, Overhead II)

Spring Garden, despite the rain...

Click HERE to catch up with the wildlife in the garden on my YouTube @ripplestone channel.

 

A Couple of Craft Fairs this Month...

 Looking forward to this year's craft fairs, with a couple this month:

Sunday 17th March  10am - 4pm

Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury

and 

Saturday 30th March 10am  - 4pm

Town Hall, Glastonbury

with a range of my handmade crochet, gifts, cards and art