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Hi, I'm Lucy Patterson. I live on top of a windy hill on the wild West Coast of Auckland, New Zealand with my man, my mum, two dogs, a cat, lots of chickens and a pig called Alice. I teach Reiki (a kind of hands-on healing), craft beautiful things and grow some of our own food.
This is my journal about the things that inspire me in every day life, projects I'm doing, and the little hands-on moments that make living worthwhile. I hope you'll enjoy stopping by for a bit.
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© 2010-2012 Lucy Patterson
Category Archives: Artwork / Illustration / Design
New things!
I’ve been beavering away like a crazy creative thing lately and am launching a whole lot of new products tomorrow at the annual Summer Fair at Michael Park Rudolf Steiner School (the school that I went to). Exciting! I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork / Illustration / Design, Craft projects, Kimono, Markets, My Shop, Stamping, Toys
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2010: My year in blogging
I started this blog back in April. Over the past months there have been many times when I haven’t managed to blog as often as I wanted (or, let’s face it, at all!), but looking back over all the posts … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork / Illustration / Design, Autumn / Fall, Celebrations, Chickens, Colour palettes, Craft projects, Food and cooking, Friends, Gardening, Giveaways / Competitions, Kimono, London, Markets, Monday's inspiration, Morocco, My Shop, Nature, Our family and animals, Seasons, Shopping, Spring, Stamping, Sustainable solutions, Toys, Travel, Tutorials, UK, Vintage, Where we live, Winter
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Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a very happy 2011! Thank you to each of you for visiting my blog and sharing this journey with me over the past months. Blogging has brought a huge amount of creativity, joy, community and fun into … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork / Illustration / Design, Celebrations, Kimono
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New things
A couple of new things around here today… The first is a freshly hatched chick! So adorable. One of our hens, Blax, has been sitting on eggs for the past three weeks, and yesterday the first one hatched. More may … Continue reading
Hand carved stamps: lanterns and blossoms
Yay! I’m so happy to be back blogging again! Over the next few weeks (I have a lot of photos to show you!) I’ll share some of my recent adventures in the UK, Morocco and Germany, but in the meantime, … Continue reading
My shop is now open!
I’m so excited, my online shop is now finally OPEN! I’ve been busy sorting out my shipping and shop policies and getting all the visuals prepared for my listings…not to mention actually uploading each listing onto Etsy inself. It’s been … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork / Illustration / Design, Kimono, My Shop
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…and the winner is…
CONGRATULATIONS to April Yedinak who has won the giveaway! Here’s what April had to say about where she lives and what she’s loving about this time of year: “I live in Hodgenville, KY. Birthplace of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It is … Continue reading
Fresh start and a GIVEAWAY!
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been two months since I last posted. Ouch. I’m afraid I somehow managed to get myself stuck in a great, fat, muddy blog block and just couldn’t get myself out of it. Thank you to all you … Continue reading
Happy weekend papercut
I’ve had a busy, productive and satisfying day today, it’s Friday night and I’m just about to head off to bed, and I have some nice things planned for the weekend. Ahhhh! Life is good! I created a simple little … Continue reading
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Plant skeletons
My head’s been so full this week, I’ve simply not managed to find the mental space to sort out what I wanted to post, let alone actually sit in front of the computer and put a post together. But I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork / Illustration / Design, Nature, Winter
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