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Lisa
@wattybird.bsky.social
49 followers 59 following 210 posts
Mostly Yorksher, occasionally Sussex
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
There are now just 4 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan.
I teach you:
🌿how to draw plants
🧠how creative activity improves mental health
I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...
Cornflowers, nigella, sweet peas & Russian sage on the left hand page of a brown paper sketch book and my pen and ink illustrations on the right hand page with the cartridge pen I used to make the illustrations nearby Four winter flowering species and pink snowberry arranged on sketch book paper with my hand lettered labels for them and pen illustrations alongside. The pen I used to make the illustrations is also nearby Spring flowers and a series of nature finds with my illustrations of them alongside and my watercolour palette in the corner of the image
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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mrsbobhere.bsky.social
Friends of @wombat37.bsky.social unite!

By quote reposting this, I’m hoping to make a virtual chain of people around Wombie. Full of love and happy memories of this great friend of ours, so he can feel us making a huge circle of love and care around him.

Are you in?
#CirleofLoveForWombie
a black and white photo of a couple holding hands .
ALT: a black and white photo of a couple holding hands .
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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janehill.bsky.social
I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.

I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.

Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Symptoms of ovarian cancer No appetite/ feeling full quickly Needing to wee more Bloated tummy Tummy pain If symptoms are persistent, ask your GP about ovarian cancer. Target Ovarian Cancer
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.

Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.

levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
The cover of Taking Flight. Stylised illustrations of a selection of flying things against a pastel background of blues and greens. The cover of Light Rains Sometimes Fall. A pastel collage of seasonal urban nature (cherry tree in blossom, magpie, swifts, autumn leaves, urban fox etc). A cope of Into The Tangled Bank (its cover a collage of nature things (butterfly, flowers, birds, binoculars etc) nestled (yes, NESTLED) in leaves and grass. The cover of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? White background, title etc and various quotes saying how brilliant it is. To the right the rear half of a goldcrest disappearing out of view (the back cover has the other half of the bird).
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days:
🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health
🗓️A very few calendars*
🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos*
*Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
My jewellery designs, individually handmade by casting real flowers & feathers in silver and I sculpt much-loved British birds to make tiny wearable versions of them Some of the Victorian ink bottles available in my shop as part of creative mental health kits One of my photos that I create using recent research into the beneficial effects to our brains of looking at images of nature, botanical patterns and things we find beautiful, of a collection of flowers I grew and others I bought at a tiny local honesty florist in Wicken, Cambridgeshire The botanical and nature collection photos that make up my 2026 calendar
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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levparikian.bsky.social
This is tantalisingly close to £3k.
The news moves on, but the lives of Jamaicans are still very difficult. Every bit helps (shares cost nothing but can be incredibly helpful).

www.gofundme.com/f/huricane-m...
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone, Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Liquidambar leaf palette just now👇🏼. Pause for a moment if you’re feeling anxious-your brain’s likely to release dopamine due to a positive response to colour gradation, certain bright colours & looking at images our brains find appealing. A pause here will make your day slightly easier to tackle 🍁
Liquidambar leaves laid out in order of colour, green through to deep red, on a buff coloured linen background
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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trouteyes.bsky.social
A spoon full of HP makes the medicine go brown, the medicine go brown.
October 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.
October 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
wattybird.bsky.social
I've seen one French Partridge before but currently have TEN of them in the garden!! Which one is David Cassidy...?
September 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct
Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood.
Includes:
🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums
🗝️30% off my Etsy shop:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
wattybird.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social A very distracted day so no favourite from me but a question for those more learned than myself.... what is this, please, and is that something munching the leaves?

I love the 'telephone wire' tendrils!
September 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
wattybird.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
These👇🏼180-125 yo Victorian ink bottles are still available as posy-making kits in my Etsy shop. Each kit is designed to improve mental health & includes a booklet about the neuroscience with how-tos,a dried flowers posy (see photo),stationery extras & a hand-printed box:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
August 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now in in my Etsy shop.
They include:
✒️an antique ink bottle - you can choose your design
💐a tiny posy of dried flowers
🧠a booklet on the neuroscience of how this kit can improve mental health & how to create tiny posies
📔 extras
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
August 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
wattybird.bsky.social
This is a fascinating way to spend an hour - you will learn so much! Thank you to all involved in this podcast.
keithpettit.bsky.social Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · Aug 21
I had the huge honour to have Laura and Phil, presenters of the 'Painting of the week' podcast, come and talk to me about my bog oak sculpture 'Cabriole' earlier in the Summer.
We had a lovely natter, ranging over many topics.
I'd love to hear what you think!
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pin...
August 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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keithpettit.bsky.social
'A way through the woods' - wood engraving.
One of my many new prints that will have it's first Artwave outing this year. I am really excited to be putting this show together for visitors to the beautiful Hamsey Church. Where @paulevansartist and I will turn it into our gallery for the Festival.
August 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
wattybird.bsky.social
@levparikian.bsky.social and fellow birding folk - this popped down for a quick look about this morning. I'm thinking Sparrowhawk or Goshawk, probably juvenile. Please would somebody confirm!?
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
I’ve been struggling w severe depression in recent wks but trying to hold on to small good things.These are hand-carved Victorian mother of pearl buttons,some extremely tiny (tip of pencil bottom R).Arranging them gave my brain precious dopamine. Hope they do the same for yrs if it’s anxious/low rn:
August 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
wattybird.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social One from the yard this week - Pilosella aurantiaca 'Fox and Cubs'. North Yorkshire. #DaisyFamily
August 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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coppersmith.bsky.social
It’s good to be back in the workshop after my studies. I’ve made mirrors for all my grandchildren - the motifs I choose tell the child’s story. This mirror has just been delivered. (The button came from a uniform worn by my beloved grandfather, after whom the youngest grandchild was named.)
August 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
wattybird.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PollinatorPals This week we have a patch of Cow Parsley with an assortment of paused pollinators.
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM