Creative practices of a textile artist from Queensland, Australia. Now living in Somerset, England.
Tag Archives: Somerset
Frozen wonderland, aka last days in Somerset
Winter is here and life in Somerset is icy. A few nights have dipped below zero (Celsius). While we have piled up all the knitted blankets, shawls, sleeping bags and doonas from storage and are cosy under them at nights, … Continue reading
Posted in Somerset, Travelling
Tagged boondocking, frost, frozen, Somerset, Travelling, UK, vanliving, wildcamping, Winter
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Adrawingaday number nine: DuckWeek and nature
DuckWeek, themed week of drawings. Different ducks and manufactured ducks, different drawing styles. Continue reading
Posted in adrawingaday, Experiments, Paper, Stickers, Works in progress
Tagged apple blossoms, art project, artist perspective, comics, contour drawing, drawing, ducks, duckweek, experimentation, interior design, japonsime, lettering, memento mori, Moleskine, rubber ducks, Sketching, Somerset, Stickers, tattoo flash, vanitas
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Elderberry Wine home brewing
Making elderberry wine, foraging for elderberries from around Somerset Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Foraging, Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged Airlock, bottling, demijohns, DIY, elderberry, Elderberry must, fermenting, Foraging, Home brew, Racking, Somerset, Winemaking
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Making homemade apple cider vinegar
How to make Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) at home. Simple, easy to follow recipe. Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged airlocks, apple cider vinegar, crab apples, demijohns, fermenting, Foraging, homebrew, musts, Somerset, vinegar, yeast
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Blackberry Wine and Apple Cider Vinegar making
What I have been brewing up of late – crab apple cider vinegar, and dry blackberry wine. Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged apple cider vinegar, blackberry wine, bottling, crab apples, demijohns, fermenting, Foraging, Somerset
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Making and bottling elderflower cordial
Elderflower cordial – (simple but messy) Elder is a tree that I have only learned to recognise recently, and it was fuelled by my determination to make and bottle some of the (drinkable) British Classics. First on this list was elderflower cordial. Elderflower … Continue reading
Posted in Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged antique skills, bottling, cordial, DIY, elderflowers, Foraging, preserves, Somerset, summer, work in progress
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