This year something we have both resolved to do is improve our photography. Writing this blog and sharing our antics with you guys on Instagram has inspired us to get more creative and wanting to produce beautiful photographs. Up until now the majority of our photos have been taken on our iPhones but now with … Continue reading Inspirational Photographers
Thanks to all our lovely readers for supporting us over the past year, we thought we'd have a little look at your top five Bugs & Birds posts from 2016! It turns out you like vegan baking and DIY's the most and we can't wait to bring you more of these in 2017! Vegan Cheese Scones … Continue reading Top five posts of 2016
Last week, we took a trip to London to the first in the V&A Museum's Meet and Make series on Line Drawing with the lovely Zeena Shah (read about the screen printing workshop we attended with Zeena here). On the way to the V&A we walked past the Natural History Museum and couldn't resist taking some photographs … Continue reading Meet and Make at the V&A with Zeena Shah
We've recently discovered Oh Comely, a women's magazine bursting with beautiful visuals and thought provoking content. The Magazine's most recent issue featured the work of New York based watercolour artist Meera Lee Patel (you can view her Etsy shop here). We joined the Oh Comely team this week when they held a London workshop with the help of … Continue reading Watercolours with Oh Comely & Blank Inside
Kate: A long while back (at the Handmade Fair) I purchased Love At First Stitch, Tilly Walnes beautiful book designed to get you sewing your own clothes by walking you through several projects starting at super easy through to expert level sewing! Several months on, after much battling with thread tension and the final realization that a half size … Continue reading Tilly and the Buttons: Love At First Stitch & Bettine
House plants are THE best! We have major love for a bit of greenery in our homes, and when we say 'a bit' we mean 'A LOT'! It has reached the point where Birds has so many house plants that she needs a bigger house to have room for them all, unfortunately a bigger house … Continue reading Macrame Plant Hanger DIY
We both have what could be deemed as a slightly unhealthy addiction to Instagram and love scrolling through pictures of delicious healthy meals, beautiful tattoos and inspiring yogis! One great thing about Instagram is that it's helped us discover some wonderful artists as well and has us craving for some beautiful original works to make … Continue reading Inspiring artists on Instagram…
You may remember our tea advent over December, in fact we drank so much tea in December 2015 that it shall forever be known as Teacember. Tea was bought, tea was drunk, tea was photographed, instagrammed, blogged, by the end of December we would have been all tea'd out if that were possible but quite frankly … Continue reading Copper Shelf DIY…
This time of year is great and not just for the obvious reasons like Christmas carols, ridiculous decorations and lebkuchen. (Actually that's a lie we LOVE lebkuchen!) One of our favourite things about this time of year is all the amazing craft markets! At the weekend our local Etsy team (Brighton Etsy) held their first Christmas market … Continue reading Brighton Etsy Market
Anyone heard all the hype around adult colouring books lately? Word has it that is is an excellent way to take some time out of our busy schedules to relax and de-stress. We love a bit of colouring ourselves and have been known to spend evenings engrossed in adding colour to a whimsical scene! We … Continue reading Stitching by Colours
