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  • The Nature Creative – An interview with The Dogwood Dyer
  • Painting with milk & dyeing with tea
  • Dye your own beads with natural dyes (and tie a sliding knot on a necklace!)
  • The Nature Creative – An interview with Nurturing Soul
  • A botanical mandala on fabric

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  • 💚 Important magazine announcement . Printed @plants_are_magic magazines are temporarily unavailable. Please read on for details 💛 . Unfortunately a printing and binding error was identified in a magazine (with the incorrect pages within a magazine) and until we can assess the extent of the issue and carefully check all magazine stock, no more magazines will be shipped. . If your magazine has not yet shipped, you will receive an email from us today to explain the potential issue and our apology for the shipping delay. I hope you agree that it’s much better to carefully check the stock before we potentially risk sending more magazines with this error. . If you recently received a magazine and notice an error, please email me a photo (using the email link within my IG profile page) to show the mismatch between front cover and inside title page. We will arrange for a replacement to be sent to you once the remaining stock of the magazines has been carefully checked. . Thank you for your patience and understanding whilst we rectify this issue. I’m so sorry for the inconvenience caused, especially just before the Christmas period. . In the meantime the digital magazines remain available for order and immediate download and you can use the coupon code THANKFUL10 for 10% off all eBooks and eMagazines 💌 . Thanks, Rebecca x
  • On my blog I’ve published a tea dyeing tutorial 🍂 It’s perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toes into natural dyeing for the first time, and of course anyone else who would like to make some pretty patterns on fabric! Plus you can use your usual kitchen saucepans for this as tea is entirely edible (read the blog post for exactly what I say on this) 💛 . Pop across to read the full post here: www.rebeccadesnos.com/blog 💚 . To make these patterns, I used black tea, rooibos tea and dried nettle tea... and another secret ingredient: I painted with milk! I used soya milk here and also tested the method with almond milk and found it works well ✨ . Do you like dyeing with tea too❓ What was the first ever plant you dyed with❓
  • I made a few necklaces this afternoon. I used to make lots of these and I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the simple task of stringing beads 😌 . If you’d like to learn how to dye beads with homemade plant dyes, my new eBook ‘Botanical Dyes on Wood’ will show you how 🌿 You can get 10% off at the moment by joining my mailing list. You’ll receive a coupon code via email. It’s only valid for a few more days, so use the discount while you can 💌 (It’s valid on all my books and magazines 🌱) . As I was oiling the beads, I discovered that I’d made a new colour that I hadn’t noticed before. It’s a kind of khaki green from pomegranate skins + iron. Funnily enough this was the colour I was hoping to make but I was disappointed at the time.. I didn’t look at the beads properly in good lighting... anyway I was happy to see the subtle green today. For me this is a lesson in slowing down 😉 . The dyes on this necklace were from avocado skins, pomegranate skins, eucalyptus leaves and acorns. The greys are from shifting the colours with iron. In daylight the greys look almost blue ✨ . This necklace will most likely be a Christmas gift... I’m planning on making a few more over the weekend. . What are you working on right now? Do you have a dye pot on the go? 🌿
  • I’ve just sewn the buttons on my avocado dyed dress 🥑 . When I dye clothes, I always like to take off the buttons before dyeing so the fabric behind the buttons dyes evenly. It’s really worth the extra effort ✨ . I used 9 avocado stones and the dye was a really deep pink colour. The linen was pretreated in soya milk according to the step-by-steps in my book Botanical Colour at your Fingertips 🌿 For a limited time you can get 10% off my books in my shop by joining my mailing list on www.rebeccadesnos.com to get a coupon code via email 💌 . I waited 3 weeks before washing out the excess dye and this lovely colour is the result. I find it’s worth waiting a while before washing out the dye as the fabric retains more colour. In my book I say to wait a week as a minimum, but I often wait much longer than this. Slow is usually best with natural dyeing 👌 . Do you have a dye pot on the go at the moment❓ Or are you planning one soon❓ I have a scarf still soaking in the exhaust dye from this dress... which I need to rescue soon! My kitchen is fairly cold and the dye is still fine after 3 weeks 😱👍 Tell me what you have in your pots 💚🌿
  • I’ve just released my new eBook Botanical Dyes on Wood 🎉 and my new blog post will show you how to make adjustable knots on necklaces 💛 . If you’re on my mailing list, you’ll have an email from me in your inbox for 10% off everything in my shop (including all printed books and magazines) ✨ You can still join now and you’ll get the code in your inbox right away. Pop over to www.rebeccadesnos.com/newsletter 💌 . This new eBook is a complete guide to dyeing and painting small wooden items like beads, as well as larger pieces of wood, even furniture! I’m so excited to share it with you 💗 . If you’re interested in making necklaces from any beads (not just dyed ones!) I have a blog post just for you 💚 I’ll show you how to make sliding knots on a cord to make adjustable necklaces. It’s been my favourite jewellery making trick for years ✨ . Pop across to www.rebeccadesnos.com/blog to have a look! . Would you like to see more jewellery making tutorials in blog posts? Happy bead dyeing and necklace making 😘
  • My new eBook ‘Botanical Dyes on Wood’ launches tomorrow ✨ I’ll show you how you can dye beads, other small wooden items like buttons and paint the dye directly onto wood to either make patterns or paint pieces of furniture. . In this photo you can see some of the dye plants I used in the book 🌿 . I’m a mixture of feeling nervous and excited! I have butterflies in my tummy like I did at school when I handed in a piece of work... but I’m also really excited to share the eBook with you and see you do your own projects! This eBook has been a dream for a couple of years and I’m so happy that it’s finally come together ✨ . If you join my mailing list on my website www.rebeccadesnos.com I’ll send you a discount code tomorrow for 10% off all my books and magazines (digital and printed) 🌿 . Do you have any craft projects planned for Christmas gifts this year? I’d like to make a few things still... hope there’s time! What’s your plan?
  • My new eBook ‘Botanical Dyes on Wood’ will be released next weekend ✨ Join my mailing list on www.rebeccadesnos.com to receive a discount code next weekend 💌 . Today I wanted to show you my inspiration for dyeing wood in the first place ~ wooden stirring spoons. . Have you also admired your wooden spoons that turn various shades in dye pots? 😍 . As you may have seen from your wooden spoons, wood dyes really well but it can take time for the layers of dye to build up to give a deep colour. I’ll give you all my tips for dyeing wood in my eBook ✨ . I love how inspiration can come from unexpected places... What is your biggest inspiration at the moment❓
  • My new eBook ‘Botanical Dyes on Wood’ will be released next weekend ✨ . It’s been 5 months in the making and it’s finally all polished up and ready to go out into the world 💚 . Join my newsletter list on my website as I’ll be sending out a discount code next Saturday (my eBooks are always really affordable 😘) . If you’d like to dye some necklaces as Christmas gifts, then order your beads now and you’ll have them ready for when my eBook is released next weekend 💚 I recommend looking for unfinished (no oil or varnish), pale timber beads. . The book goes beyond dyeing beads though - I’ll show you how to paint patterns on beads too, as well as paint dye on larger pieces and even furniture. There’s even a bonus section at the end for using the same concentrated dyes on paper and fabric. I can’t wait to share all of this with you 💗 Plant dyes have so many amazing uses 🌿✨ . Thanks for being there and supporting me on my journey! It means the world ☺️ I’ve so enjoyed making this eBook for you. . I’m thinking of doing some simple jewellery making blog posts as I love making jewellery with wooden beads. I think the first one will be showing you how I make the sliding knot on all of my necklaces.. Would you like that? If so, I’ll try to get the blog post ready for next weekend ☺️ Have a lovely day x

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