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Making plum jam today! Our first blessed harvest from the land; barely any spoils, too 💖💝🤗 Looking forward to fresh bakery bread, with lashings of butter and jam! #homemadejam #organicfruit #foodforfree

Just updated my Needlework Monday post, with some snaps by @vincentnijman of me in the dress (made from an old-but-elegant bedsheet) #slowfashion

as promised: some snaps of the dress on myself - thanks to Vincent! Dearest Hive Needleworkers & Friends! Here's a new dress, made from a beautiful old bedsheet: one of the few items of bedlinen that

This morning, Clare and I harvested a couple of Kg of plums (from one single tree, right next to our house ). They are quite a lot bigger than they look in the picture, the size of small eggs. Looking

Dearest Hive Friends! Our first days back on our new land (after a break back in Guardia to prepare for Vinalia and to pack more of our stuff for bringing here) have again been full to the brim with sensation,

Our first 'workday' on the land today: laying a hedge: just divine, feeling symbiosis of all plantlife, calling us to make this beautiful boundary, which will develop into a biodiverse wildlife habitat

We did our first, short work session on our new sovereign land, today! Laying a hedge; the beginnings of a border to the track into the land - join @vincentnijman and I's blogs, to see more soon 🤗🥰🥳

Whilst in the middle of moving house, I am preparing for my first drawing exposition. @clareartista is preparing for what I believe to be the third expo of her (not so) slow fashion/clothing.

Enjoying some welcome cooler Summer weather in Guardia Sanframondi, Italia 🗻🌧️

shorts made from smaller shorts, trouser legs and a skirt Dearest Needlework Monday Friends, We’re packing again, this time with a sewing machine – my oldest wee blue Brother one from 1960 – for our land

The smell of warm water in a garden hose... it brings me back to Summer holidays in the South of France, in the mid to late 80s. Back then, my (Dutch) grandparents used to own a plot of land in a hamlet

Dearest Homesteading & Hive Communities, ginormous snail shells: looking forward to pasta alle lumache one day! What to write about, having been on our New Land for a handful of days, and then having

Dearest Hive Homesteaders & Free-Living Folk! Well, what to say, about being on our new land - 11,000 square metres at 650 m elevation, in the northeast of Molise - around un mezz'ora from the sea....?

Dearest Needleworkers and Hive Friends, This has been a week of much mystical movement in our lives and work: in case you didn’t hear, @vincentnijman and I finally found our dream homestead a week ago,

Dearest Hive Friends, My latest podcast can be found on Spotify and Fountain, and hopefully other good podcasting providers.... The Art Of Life podcast on Spotify The Art Of Life podcast speaks to how

Dear Hive Homesteading Friends, At long last I (actually, we!) have a homesteading story to begin;our adventure started a few days ago, and the seed is already sprouting vitalicious roots and shoots....

This is a follow up to last week's upcoming (wild) camping and house hunting adventure and quite an exciting one, to say the least...

When I started blogging, I wanted to explore myself more, namely my feelings and my my creativity. Not all posts are entirely self indulgent, but a majority are, and I like it that way. I find myself most

The road to our new home & land!!! #movinghouse #molise #italia #happypeople #livingontheland

Wild camping in Italy. @clareartista and I were woken up, before 5am, by a little thunderstorm, after a very windy night. Nice and fresh morning now for the first time in ages.