Welcome to forage|create|love
Welcome! I’m Ann, a home-educating mama who lives in the New Forest with my husband Kevin, our 5 year old daughter Phoenix, our two year old son Forrest and our cat Muad'Dib.
We are all about living a creative life closely connected to nature, following our hearts and minds in the moment and discovering all the beauty & joy that surrounds us... Read More
Polymer Clay Coral Reef
I really loved doing this project with Nixie and it ended up turning into a bit of a family project and Kevin joined in too. We had spent a lot of time reading, watching videos and learning about coral reefs and wanted to make our own coral reef diorama inspired by our favourite kinds of corals.
Elderflower Cordial
We finished making our elderflower cordial/syrup today. To be honest I wasn't really that fussed about finding elderflower this year as we made cordial last year and the cordial we made I didn't really like and normally I love all things elderflower but I decided to try again this year and this time it turned out so delicious!
Seashell Wall Hanging
Yesterday while the sky was cleansing our earth we made a seashell wall hanging with our ever growing collection of scallops. I absolutely love making things with the treasures we find. Each of these shells holds memories of fun times had at our special little beach.
Layers Of The Ocean Craft
Yesterday after we came in from a morning of crabbing Nixie wanted to learn more about the ocean so we spent a little time learning about which animals live in which layers of the ocean and made this Layers of the Ocean craft.
Bee Art with Potato Stamping!
We had so much fun playing with these potato stamps that Kevin so lovingly made for us. Nixie really enjoyed it and even made some Red tailed bumblebees which seems to have become her favourite.
Make Your Own Foraging Bag!
We used the ancient technique of Tataki Zome, the Japanese art of transferring botanical dyes from flowers and leaves onto fabric simply by hammering them onto the surface. This is such a fun and simple project to do with he kids and afterwards they had their very own foraging bag!
Three Of My Favourite Clover Recipes
I love making sweet treats with clover flowers and in this post I'll share three of my favourite recipes: Red Clover Lemonade, White Clover & Strawberry Cookies & Red Clover Jam.
Salt dough Starfish
Now Nixie has been wanting to learn about the ocean, I really love how home ed allows us to follow her lead and to go wherever her heart desires. A while back a fisherman had given us a starfish he found so we spent a little time learning about them and doing some related arts and crafts. Here's one of them.