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Continue reading →: Grow, Share, Cook – Week ThreeIn my latest veggie bag from Grow, Share, Cook I got potatoes, shallots, rhubarb, savoy cabbage and something I’ve never cooked before: beetroot! My first idea was to use it for beetroot and tofu burgers because I loved getting those from the Venus cafés around the Devon coast, but I…
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Continue reading →: My art: OverflowI am pleased to have one of my artworks included in Doncaster Art Fair’s “Art as a Response to Mental Health” exhibition for 2024. I’ve only just started to feel comfortable putting my ‘serious’ art out into the world (as opposed to my design and illustration which feel a little…
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Continue reading →: Grow, Share, Cook – Week TwoThis week’s bag contained spinach, lettuce, shallots, potatoes and apples (which I forgot to include in the photo). These are all things I would use a lot anyway so it was easy to make meals from! I used most of the spinach and some of the potatoes in a curry…
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Continue reading →: My Art: UntitledI’ve painted over this canvas a good few times now. It started off as a bright and colourful kitschy painting but I’m never really satisfied with my art so I kept returning to it periodically and covering over whatever was currently there with something new. I was looking at it…
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Continue reading →: Grow, Share, Cook – Week OneI’m happy to be taking part in the Grow, Share, Cook project from Tamar Grow Local. The project provides free fortnightly vegetable bags to people around Plymouth with locally grown, seasonal produce and a suggested recipe to try. They’ll also be running cooking classes around the city. The timing of…
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Continue reading →: My art: Rainbow assemblageA couple months ago I decided to start sorting through all of the stuff in our garage, which is not a small task because it hasn’t been properly sorted through since 2009 and there are boxes in there full of things going back to the 80s and beyond. I think…
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Continue reading →: Café for birdsA little robin has been coming into the garden every day recently so I bought a bird table to put some food on for them. I used a mix of posca pens and acrylics to paint a little design on the side – it’s holding up well in the rain…
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Continue reading →: Kitchen PlansThe kitchen in this house looks pretty dated, and it’s a place that I spend a lot of time in so I really want it to be a brighter, happier place. I’m thinking a fun retro vibe, but leaning more towards ice-cream parlour than diner. Cute pastel colours, scalloped edges,…
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Continue reading →: Welcome Home
CONTENT WARNING: I briefly discuss mental breakdown including a suicide attempt in this post. It’s been a year since I moved back home. I wasn’t originally going to go into much detail about how I got to be here but I wanted to give some context, so here we go.…
Hello
I’m Siobhán (she/they). I live with my brother and two cats in Plymouth in the south west of England. I started this blog to share my attempts at making stuff and improving our house.
My Cats
Amber
A bossy ginger tabby cat who is always hungry.
Pixie
A naughty little black cat who loves to play.
recycled robo 