Emma Mitchell
@silverpebble2.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Half this small Victortian & Edwrdian👇collection sold within 20 minutes but there's still a beautiful Edwardian silver envelope stamp holder etched with bindweed leaves and a sought after Chester hallmark left. Link in post below:
January 27, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Half this small Victortian & Edwrdian👇collection sold within 20 minutes but there's still a beautiful Edwardian silver envelope stamp holder etched with bindweed leaves and a sought after Chester hallmark left. Link in post below:
So sorry, I'm an hour late due to tech issues, but my new small collection using Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets and charms is now in my etsy shop:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
January 27, 2026 at 9:35 PM
So sorry, I'm an hour late due to tech issues, but my new small collection using Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets and charms is now in my etsy shop:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Hi, so sorry, due to tech/photo transfer problems earlier in the day I’m running late & my current small collection made using Victorian & Edwardian charms & lockets will be in my etsy shop at 9.15pm. Apologies-computers aren’t super helpful sometimes. Here are some of the things I’ve made…🦉🌿🐝🌸
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Hi, so sorry, due to tech/photo transfer problems earlier in the day I’m running late & my current small collection made using Victorian & Edwardian charms & lockets will be in my etsy shop at 9.15pm. Apologies-computers aren’t super helpful sometimes. Here are some of the things I’ve made…🦉🌿🐝🌸
A few of the pieces that will be avail in my etsy shop at 8.30pm:3 Edwardian stamp holders (used to be attached to chatelaines) & a beautifully etched vesta case/match holder. All will contain Victorian stamps,tiny drawings of wrens (by me) & miniscule treasures-like wearable cabinets of curiosity 🗝️
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
A few of the pieces that will be avail in my etsy shop at 8.30pm:3 Edwardian stamp holders (used to be attached to chatelaines) & a beautifully etched vesta case/match holder. All will contain Victorian stamps,tiny drawings of wrens (by me) & miniscule treasures-like wearable cabinets of curiosity 🗝️
Small behind the scenes 📷 of materials I’m using atm,incl silver pebble I made (👀),1930s toy poppy,fossils,aquamarines & tiny keys from 18th C writing slopes. Jewellery-making was maybe my first love, dating back to the time before I loved biology & learning how the brain works (ie actual yore/1976)
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Small behind the scenes 📷 of materials I’m using atm,incl silver pebble I made (👀),1930s toy poppy,fossils,aquamarines & tiny keys from 18th C writing slopes. Jewellery-making was maybe my first love, dating back to the time before I loved biology & learning how the brain works (ie actual yore/1976)
I’ve just realised that the darkest ten weeks of the winter are behind us & just now we’re gaining 2 minutes of daylight each day here in the UK. A hopeful thought 🌿
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I’ve just realised that the darkest ten weeks of the winter are behind us & just now we’re gaining 2 minutes of daylight each day here in the UK. A hopeful thought 🌿
I’ll be listing a new small collection of jewellery pieces made using the Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets & charms in the photo below tomorrow evening at 8.30pm UK time in my Etsy shop.
Click 💬on my page to enquire about individual pieces or to reserve:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Click 💬on my page to enquire about individual pieces or to reserve:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
January 26, 2026 at 12:39 PM
I’ll be listing a new small collection of jewellery pieces made using the Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets & charms in the photo below tomorrow evening at 8.30pm UK time in my Etsy shop.
Click 💬on my page to enquire about individual pieces or to reserve:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Click 💬on my page to enquire about individual pieces or to reserve:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Hey, um, wanna see the molecular structure of the compound called penguinone?
No?
Pfff give over, you do really.
👇🏼👇🏼IT LOOKS LIKE A PENGUIN DOING WADDLING. 👇🏼👇🏼
Yep. Science is ace.
The end
No?
Pfff give over, you do really.
👇🏼👇🏼IT LOOKS LIKE A PENGUIN DOING WADDLING. 👇🏼👇🏼
Yep. Science is ace.
The end
January 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Hey, um, wanna see the molecular structure of the compound called penguinone?
No?
Pfff give over, you do really.
👇🏼👇🏼IT LOOKS LIKE A PENGUIN DOING WADDLING. 👇🏼👇🏼
Yep. Science is ace.
The end
No?
Pfff give over, you do really.
👇🏼👇🏼IT LOOKS LIKE A PENGUIN DOING WADDLING. 👇🏼👇🏼
Yep. Science is ace.
The end
2/2 1) a very busy one I just filmed near the bird café, above & 2) one I drew a while ago, below. Hoping your brain benefits a little from these tiny films
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
2/2 1) a very busy one I just filmed near the bird café, above & 2) one I drew a while ago, below. Hoping your brain benefits a little from these tiny films
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠
Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
January 25, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
Here’s a clip of the botanical illustration. 👇🏼These are recordings on my phone taken from my laptop screen, not clips of the actual recording so the quality is less good than the actual footage you’ll have. I just wanted to give you a flavour of the workshop...
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Here’s a clip of the botanical illustration. 👇🏼These are recordings on my phone taken from my laptop screen, not clips of the actual recording so the quality is less good than the actual footage you’ll have. I just wanted to give you a flavour of the workshop...
A clips from the >3 hr recording you’ll have indefinite access to (I’ll probs be adding 2 recordings tbh so you have winter flowers & here👇🏼summer flowers to learn to draw from)-here’s a snippet of the neuroscience of how looking at plants/botanical fractals improves our mental health:
January 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A clips from the >3 hr recording you’ll have indefinite access to (I’ll probs be adding 2 recordings tbh so you have winter flowers & here👇🏼summer flowers to learn to draw from)-here’s a snippet of the neuroscience of how looking at plants/botanical fractals improves our mental health:
As requested you can now buy a full length recording only of one of my botanical illustration & mental health w'shops.
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...
January 24, 2026 at 1:45 PM
As requested you can now buy a full length recording only of one of my botanical illustration & mental health w'shops.
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...
In case you’re stuck indoors, feeling low or anxious or there’s big snow where you are, here are hundreds of snowdrops (also called Candlemas bells) in a hedgerow & gentle winter sun (& a car, sorry) I filmed on 3rd Feb last year. Are you a fan of these little flowers?
🌱🌱
🌱🌱
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM
In case you’re stuck indoors, feeling low or anxious or there’s big snow where you are, here are hundreds of snowdrops (also called Candlemas bells) in a hedgerow & gentle winter sun (& a car, sorry) I filmed on 3rd Feb last year. Are you a fan of these little flowers?
🌱🌱
🌱🌱
You can learn to cast nature finds in silver & how this activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health on my 10 day online course-begins 31 Jan
I've taught this w'shop on BBC Countryfile & the Victoria & Albert museum.Incl discount on materials:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/silv...
I've taught this w'shop on BBC Countryfile & the Victoria & Albert museum.Incl discount on materials:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/silv...
January 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM
You can learn to cast nature finds in silver & how this activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health on my 10 day online course-begins 31 Jan
I've taught this w'shop on BBC Countryfile & the Victoria & Albert museum.Incl discount on materials:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/silv...
I've taught this w'shop on BBC Countryfile & the Victoria & Albert museum.Incl discount on materials:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/silv...
Flashback to the garden step café last spring, when a little bank vole came to dine & was so focussed on her main course that she didn’t notice a cherry blossom petal falling on her head to make a jaunty hat…👒
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Flashback to the garden step café last spring, when a little bank vole came to dine & was so focussed on her main course that she didn’t notice a cherry blossom petal falling on her head to make a jaunty hat…👒
Apparently there’s going to be a chonky strong aurora tonight because the sun has emitted a vast coronal mass ejection (👀heck).
Here’s some aurora photos I took last year here in Cambridgeshire:
Here’s some aurora photos I took last year here in Cambridgeshire:
January 19, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Apparently there’s going to be a chonky strong aurora tonight because the sun has emitted a vast coronal mass ejection (👀heck).
Here’s some aurora photos I took last year here in Cambridgeshire:
Here’s some aurora photos I took last year here in Cambridgeshire:
I think what I love most about my newly together garden robin couple is how obviously excited they are to be together-they really do seem quite bouncy, giddy and extra hoppy and ‘oh look under here’-y about everything they’re doing on the steps there.
ok I’ll stop wanging on about them now…kbye 🪶
ok I’ll stop wanging on about them now…kbye 🪶
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I think what I love most about my newly together garden robin couple is how obviously excited they are to be together-they really do seem quite bouncy, giddy and extra hoppy and ‘oh look under here’-y about everything they’re doing on the steps there.
ok I’ll stop wanging on about them now…kbye 🪶
ok I’ll stop wanging on about them now…kbye 🪶
I'll be making some small good items using recycled silver today: a tiny feather or two, 3 little oak leaves for oak-themed necklaces, a couple of little seed pods and I'll be casting a tiny ammonite from Charmouth in silver...
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I'll be making some small good items using recycled silver today: a tiny feather or two, 3 little oak leaves for oak-themed necklaces, a couple of little seed pods and I'll be casting a tiny ammonite from Charmouth in silver...
Small but also BIG news from the garden step bird café: in the last 24 hrs my garden robin, the one who came in the house to tell me the mealworms had run out, has found a mate! I usually silence my films but you can hear how completely delighted I am. He was showing her around! Ngl bit tearful rn❤️❤️
January 19, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Small but also BIG news from the garden step bird café: in the last 24 hrs my garden robin, the one who came in the house to tell me the mealworms had run out, has found a mate! I usually silence my films but you can hear how completely delighted I am. He was showing her around! Ngl bit tearful rn❤️❤️
(sorry post, not tweet 👀)
January 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
(sorry post, not tweet 👀)
Drawings of birds (here a black capped chickadee, wren & bluetit) by attendees of my bird illustration workshops, which are for beginners. My scientific & illustration bio is in the photos in previous tweet 👆🏼✒️🪶
January 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Drawings of birds (here a black capped chickadee, wren & bluetit) by attendees of my bird illustration workshops, which are for beginners. My scientific & illustration bio is in the photos in previous tweet 👆🏼✒️🪶
If you'd like to learn how to draw long tailed tits, wrens, chickadees other faves I've just 5 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health w'shop,Sat 24 Jan
I'll also teach you how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
I'll also teach you how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
January 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM
If you'd like to learn how to draw long tailed tits, wrens, chickadees other faves I've just 5 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health w'shop,Sat 24 Jan
I'll also teach you how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
I'll also teach you how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:
Until very recently I was far too unwell with depression seek out, appreciate or be able to enjoy moments like this.I also heard a tentative half-hearted blackbird song-a proper sign of spring approaching. At that point I cried a bit,mostly bc I’m still here to witness these small very good things 🌿
January 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Until very recently I was far too unwell with depression seek out, appreciate or be able to enjoy moments like this.I also heard a tentative half-hearted blackbird song-a proper sign of spring approaching. At that point I cried a bit,mostly bc I’m still here to witness these small very good things 🌿