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Build your own crochet kingdom 🏰✨
The Large Castle Playset is perfect for a little fantasy magic.

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💋 These buttery, seductive cookies feature four delectable, desire-inspiring herbs: maca, vanilla, rose, and cacao. Learn how aphrodisiac herbs work and try our irresistible Herbal Aphrodisiac Shortbread Cookies recipe.
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I know it’s been a while (sorry) and it’s not even great light to show you, but I’ve just finished my first embroidery of 2026. 😊 I hope it was with the wait and that you enjoy!🪡🌿🦉✨
*Completely freehand stitched, no pattern, paints or sketch. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

Three images of sections of colourful patchwork quilts with spider web embroideries

Spiders & webbs are often added to crazy quilts as symbols of good luck and industry. Crazy quilts, popular in the 19thc, are created with a patchwork of irregular fabric scraps, thus differing from quilts with neat geometric patterns #Womensart

Four images of woven shawls with stylised and symbolic images of animals and birds

Tlingit weaver Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

Textile pictorial artwork featuring a standing white woman in a spring garden facing forwards in long pale dress with cape, two other young women hold her cape to each side of her

Ann Macbeth (1875 - 1948) was a Scottish artist and embroiderer working in the Art Nouveau style, she was a member of artistic group Glasgow Girls #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a barn owl on a fence post in a field at night under a swirling sky and full moon

UK textile artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #WomensArt

Photo of a display of four woven baskets in different sizes, three with different repeated geometric patterns, the other with stylised images of birds and plants

Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #womensart

Photo of knitted round leaves on stems and red blossoms against a cream background

Knitted botanic art by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

Four paintings featuring multicoloured and significant floral designs on black backgrounds

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #WomensArt

Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt

Textile piece with embroidered representations of plants and flowers in a busy composition in pinks and purples predominantly

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt

Embroidery of a life-like perched small bird facing left, side view on a floral fabric background

The work of contemporary embroidery artist Emily Tull #WomensArt

Painting of a view of a park with figures and tall bare trees in front of a rising early spring sun causing long shadows on grass

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Plunging coffee in a French press

Gardener adding two hands full of coffee grounds and compost while gardening

Homegrown vegetables in a seashell bowl on a seaside balcony

French press coffee significantly reduces packaging waste because it uses no paper filters or plastic single-serve pods. Coffee grounds can be used in compost or mixed into soil to boost earthworm activity. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #SundayMorning #SustainableSunday #Sustainability #Coffee

Work by Jeremy Vaughan. Available at The Prow Gallery. #fineart #landscapepainting #acrylicpainting #jeremyvaughanart #prowgallery

A watercolor painting depicting forest floor full of layered leaves and mushrooms. A butterfly, Eastern Comma emerging from them along with early spring ephemerals. Enjoy! 😊

Forest floor full of layered leaves.. .
Eastern Comma emerging . .
Along with early spring ephemerals. .
Life thrives together. .
In harmony. .
In interdependence. .
Watercolor in progress ©️Heeyoung Kim 2026

#botanicalart #naturalhistoryart #natureart

Happy World Whale Day 🐋

On World Whale Day, we’re calling for protection along our coast, and in the high seas - because safeguarding whales means safeguarding the broader ocean systems we all depend on.

Image credit: Ron Watkins / Ocean Image Bank

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Happy World Whale Day! 🐋

Dive deep into their world with our new book, Whale: The Illustrated Biography, written by internationally acclaimed expert @ashadevos.bsky.social:

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#WorldWhaleDay #Whales #Nature #Wildlife

This lot are off to have a whale of a time at this year's World Whale Day party 🎉

🐋 Take a moment to watch them go about their business in the knowledge that since commercial whaling was banned in 1986, populations have been bouncing back.

Images collected under scientific permit.
#WorldWhaleDay

It's #WorldWhaleDay! Head to our website, whale-tales.org, to read over 930 whale stories (and 1600+ stories over all!)
Graphic by Paul Davis

#WhaleTales #whales #WhaleLove

Puppy dog laying in her bed with blankets and a stuffed toy cupcake that says sweet thing on it.

Puppy dog laying in her bed with blankets and chewing a stuffed toy cupcake that says sweet thing on it.

Puppy dog yawning and laying in her bed with blankets with a stuffed toy cupcake that says sweet thing on it. Stuffing is outside the toy.

Puppy dog laying in her bed with blankets with a stuffed toy cupcake under her head that says sweet thing on it. Stuffing coming out of the toy.

Happy birthday to my dog Nova and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone as well. #happybirthday ##happyvalentinesday #lovemydog

Love Tea Mix:
This dry mix will make 4+ quarts of tea. Use 1 handful of mix per quart.
violet leaf 1 oz
hawthorn berry 1 oz
rosehip 1 oz
damiana 1/4 oz
rose 1/4 oz
ginger 1/4 oz
vanilla 1/8 oz
nutmeg pinch
licorice root pinch
To make: Crush herbs right before use.
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A watercolour painting of 3 rabbits sitting amongst plant foliage

Painting finished - rabbits amongst plant foliage
Watercolour on 300gsm cold pressed Arches paper
#watercolour #watercolor #art #rabbits #plants #painting

🌱 "What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another." —Mahatma Gandhi

It's always the season of the witch 💚 Artist ~ Stuart Shaw 💚

#greenwitchtea #greenwitch #witchsky #witch #peace

Happy Valentine's Day

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