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Video Tutorial: How to make a Succulent Terrarium
Not that long ago, local artisan Ashley Bentley of The Bees Knees showed us how to make Succulent Terrariums and Mini Succulent Planters here on Lovely Greens. Today I’m delighted to tell you that a...
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Moisturising Shea Butter Face Soap Recipe and Instructions
Many facial cleansers can strip the skin of natural oils, leaving your skin either too dry or too oily. This is because your face can respond to over-cleansing and over-exfoliation with even more acne,...
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How to make Metallic Coin Vaults with Pallet Wood
As everyday objects, coins are often hidden away in drawers, hand bags, and cupboards despite their metallic beauty. I think that because we see them so often their colour and design has become...
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DIY Sea Glass Stepping Stone
After spending a week in Venice I had a couple of days to myself before having an old friend visit me in the Isle of Man. I hadn’t seen her in over a year and we spent the time listening to music from...
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How to create a Wildflower Cottage Garden
The beginning of this year saw me pondering the triangular garden bed at the front of the house. Last year it was a headache due to its infestation of weeds that continued to strangle the plants I’d...
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Why Learn about Herbal Medicine?
If you’re reading this you’re probably interested in holistic health and the idea that nature and herbs can heal. Modern medicine is a wonder in so many ways, and I know this personally after having...
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Tips on growing Sweet Peas
If I were ever to have a formal wedding again, I’d like it to be decked out in sweet peas. In bouquets on the table, wound around centre-pieces and into wreaths, and maybe even garlands woven into my...
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Giveaway of The Crafted Garden, Stylish projects inspired by Nature
Have you ever gone on a walk and found some twigs, nuts, stones, flowers, or berries that were simply so beautiful that you took them home? You might have put them into a vase or tucked them into a...
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How to make a Personalized Travel Map
Do you love roadtrips? Vacations abroad? Seeing new places? How do you remember your experiences and plan for new trips? I thought about this recently as I looked at the big map of North America on my...
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25 Gardening Inspirations from Paris
Last week my boyfriend Josh and I went to Paris to celebrate our birthdays. He’s a big fan of food and wine (who am I kidding, who isn’t?) and I’m a garden geek so we managed to make sure that we saw...
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The Lazy Gardener: 22 Time & Effort Saving Gardening Tips
Another summer has passed and the time I have for working in my allotment garden was even less than I had last year. I enjoy having my plot of land on the Laxey hillside but I’m struggling with ways to...
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How to grow and use Calendula Flowers for Beauty & Cooking
Calendula flowers are very easy to grow and useful in both your beauty regime and kitchen. These golden flowers can bloom from early spring until late autumn and I’ve even seen them showing off their...
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Lovely Greens Soapmaking in the Isle of Man Newspaper
Today freelance writer Julie Blackburn interviewed me on making handmade gifts for Christmas – including the handmade soap you’d make in my soapmaking workshops. She’s writing a piece on how you can...
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Book Giveaway | Terrariums Gardens Under Glass
As winter nears many of us are clearing our gardens and putting them to bed for the season. That means that we won’t be having our gardening fix for some months to come unless we create our own mini...
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7 Herbs for Colds & Flu + how to use them
It’s almost unavoidable: the annual Cold & Flu season. Short of hiding out at home, you’ll be exposed to viruses each time someone sneezes on the bus, coughs in the grocery store, or a loved one...
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How to make Hot Cocoa Bath Bombs
Imagine relaxing after a long day in a steaming bath of hot chocolate. The warmth soothing tired muscles while rich chocolately aromas swirl through the air and melted cocoa butter moisturises your...
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A Lovely Greens Christmas
It’s that time of the year for me again – Christmas gift set season! From Early November to mid-December I’m pretty much a hermit, unless you can find me at a local event touting my Lovely Greens...
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Merry Christmas from Lovely Greens
Instead of snow we have a light rain today on Christmas morning and it suits me just fine! It’s mild and cosy and the perfect weather to tuck up inside with warm drinks and hearty food and that’s...
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Creating a new Sedum spectabile plant
Propagating the succulent plant, Sedum spectabile from a cutting. This is the easiest way to to create new plants for free! What a relief! I took a chance with only taking a single cutting of Sedum...
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New Years Resolution: Creativity Jar
Build core body strength, eat less meat, travel more, get my new allotment fully operational; these are all goals I have for 2016 but none is my New Years Resolution. Instead I want to do something for...
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