How to make a simple succulent arrangement - tutorial from Porrige

Porrige has a lovely tutorial for making a floral arrangement using succulents from the garden

"everything for my bouquet was found in my front yard. now before you think that i have this awesome garden on my doorstep, i don't. to give you some perspective nathan has said that our yard is like the secret garden---before they fixed it up"

Go take a look and be inspired. Porrige

Planting Spring Bulbs in Cake Tins - Inspirational Recyclying

Don't those spring bulbs look great in the springform cake tin?

I just wonder if I'd rather have chocolate cake....

I BELIEVE NOTHING

I BELIEVE NOTHING


I believe nothing – what need


Surrounded as I am with marvels of what is,


This familiar room, books, shabby carpet on the floor,


Autumn yellow jasmine, chrysanthemums, my mother’s flower,


Earth-scent of memories, daily miracles,


Yet media-people ask, “Is there a God?”


What does the word mean


To the fish in his ocean, birds


In his skies, and stars?


I only know that when I turn in sleep


Into the invisible, it seems


I am upheld by love, and what seems is


Inexplicable here and now of joy and sorrow,


This inexhaustible, untidy world -


I would not have it otherwise.



by Kathleen Raine