First Harvest

Lovey greens for our dinner tonight. Planted in late July and all coming along nicely -Cos lettuce, spinach, Tuscan kale, a single spring onion and with the warmer weather the nasturtiums have begun to bloom and I should think they will carry on right through to Autumn now.

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  Lots of plans for the garden this year, living the simple life over at ArtLife In the Garden

Creative Hearts

I thought I would share with you some of the creatives that inspire me. I find the more you embrace the idea of creating as a valid concept, indeed with the possibility of creativity leading to a career or business the more it feeds that fire within.

Lilly Ashwell Lookbook

Will you take my hand and allow yourself to be free to dream?

Wonderfully poetic and committed to creating a narrative for her collections - be inspired by Lilly Ashwell.

"I just want to keep making beautiful things that speak to people and that will last for years and years. I try really hard in my clothes to make them as soulful and human as possible," she says. "I guess that's the word for my aesthetic, human." 

Lilly Ashwell Lookbook

Lilly Ashwell Lookbook

You have to make a conscious decision to embrace creativity, take a small piece of  inspiration everyday to stoke the fire!

You can follow Lilly on Instagram or explore her web site.

O could I fly, I’d fly with thee

Inspired by the ups and downs of Spring weather to make new designs in the Nature Study range. What do you think?

Second star to the right

...and straight on til morning. From Peter Pan by JM Barrie. A big thank you to all the teachers who worked so hard to make the school play so lovely!

Delivered with a box of chocolates of course!

High (Winter)

Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven

That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,

High UK 2014

And thereupon imagination and heart were driven

So wild that every casual thought of that and this

Vanished, and left but memories. -The Cold Heaven by Yeats

I love this time when our seasons cross with the Northern hemisphere, here a cold and wild day, the last of Winter, one could easily slip into any of the High UK clothes. I like the philosophy and poetry of the images.

Bring me a dream

New Vintage Friends artwork

I hope you are all dreaming good dreams today.

There is something about the winter's sun.

There is something about the winter's sun.

Those for whom is the winter's suffering

the warmth of the sun is also for them.

Relieving them that, a part of the

sunshine belongs to them

Of the winter's sun.

azmat naushad asif