A weekend in Florence

A Year in Summary

I learnt to sew as a small child at my mother’s knee. Like many 70's children home crafts were the weekend activity of choice, and my...

I have acquired something precious. something that marks a moment in time. Actually, it marks several moments in time....let me explain.

As I walked on, I began to think about how hard it would be to spend every day in survival mode

I spent a happy hour tumbling down a rabbit hole of exploration into historic heritage crafts'

bees will stumble drunkenly against me as they attempt lift-off, hindlegs heavy with pollen and hoverflies investigate me,

Stitch is universal, it can speak to you without words. Everything is conveyed in the cloth. A stitch does not bleed or spread like paint;

A single 500-year old oak is a whole ecosystem - ten thousand 200-year old oaks is not....

R4 Saturday Review presenter, Tom Sutcliffe, praised Amanda’s work as ‘beautiful things’ created with an ‘almost scientific exactitude'

now that the forest branches are bare of leaves they have revealed blooms of lichen and moss clinging on persistently

There is a pyrotechnic vibrancy at this time of year that I love.....

Colour is my Jam..is anyone else obsessed too?

A blast of earthy undertone from the forest floor mixed with hint of pine and top notes of wild blackberries mixed with the citrusy fresh sm

It won’t have gone unnoticed that for the past 3 months or so the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has somewhat dominated our lives

We are working at fever pitch in preparation for the Chelsea Flower Show in May. For the past few months we have been making lists,...

Walking is my salvation. Even on the coldest, wettest days I’m out there. Its rhythmic motion is totally levelling. Undoubtedly it has...

We pull into the rural yard with its assortment of barns and outbuildings, and park outside what might once have been a tractor shed. We...

Put the kettle on - let’s take five.... Hello! My name is Sarah and I am delighted to have started working with Amanda, relieving her of...