Emma Mitchell

This is sage advice ✔️💯

The tiny silver propelling pencil, kettle locket (it opens ❤️), acorn & walnut have now been reserved (thankyou!)but the other treasure is still available, including 2 Edwardian stamp holders etched both sides with leaves-would have hung from chatelaines. Link in post below for enquiries/to reserve 🗝️

Hahaaa bags I’m the bee

…the owl will be combined with a little feather I’ve made from recycled silver & a gemstone….🪶

YESSS-this is more likely a 1950s resin charm but I’ll most likely be combining it with the bee in a necklace 🌿

Oof so do I…

I adore it-fully hallmarked, original pencil, propelling mechanism works, so tiny & perfect…

I’ll be listing a new small collection of jewellery pieces made using the Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets & charms in the photo below tomorrow evening at 8.30pm UK time in my Etsy shop.
Click 💬on my page to enquire about individual pieces or to reserve:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶

Sweet peas, cornflowers etc on the left of a sketch book plus my drawings of them on the right hand lane. The pen I used is nearby

A collection of spring nature finds and my drawings of them alongside plus a watercolour palette and my paintbrush in the corner of the image

An autumnal collection of botanical finds with my hand written labels of the and my drawings of them alongside, plus creative materials at the top of the photo

four winter flowering plus one berries plant specimen with my hand written labels for them and my drawings of them alongside on white sketchbook paper. The pen I used to make the drawings is nearby

As requested you can now buy a full length recording only of one of my botanical illustration & mental health w'shops.
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...

Come ON. So cool

Hey, um, wanna see the molecular structure of the compound called penguinone?
No?
Pfff give over, you do really.
👇🏼👇🏼IT LOOKS LIKE A PENGUIN DOING WADDLING. 👇🏼👇🏼
Yep. Science is ace.
The end

A clips from the >3 hr recording you’ll have indefinite access to (I’ll probs be adding 2 recordings tbh so you have winter flowers & here👇🏼summer flowers to learn to draw from)-here’s a snippet of the neuroscience of how looking at plants/botanical fractals improves our mental health:

2/2 1) a very busy one I just filmed near the bird café, above & 2) one I drew a while ago, below. Hoping your brain benefits a little from these tiny films
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠

Bushy-tailed wally

They’re just SO good aren’t they? Major charisma. I think they’re like busy feathered boiled eggs. My pal @levparikian.bsky.social calls them ‘tiny shouters’ bc small egg, vast tweety decibels…

2/2 1) a very busy one I just filmed near the bird café, above & 2) one I drew a while ago, below. Hoping your brain benefits a little from these tiny films
🪶🖋️🌿 🧠

Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶

Here’s a clip of the botanical illustration. 👇🏼These are recordings on my phone taken from my laptop screen, not clips of the actual recording so the quality is less good than the actual footage you’ll have. I just wanted to give you a flavour of the workshop...

A clips from the >3 hr recording you’ll have indefinite access to (I’ll probs be adding 2 recordings tbh so you have winter flowers & here👇🏼summer flowers to learn to draw from)-here’s a snippet of the neuroscience of how looking at plants/botanical fractals improves our mental health:

Sweet peas, cornflowers etc on the left of a sketch book plus my drawings of them on the right hand lane. The pen I used is nearby

A collection of spring nature finds and my drawings of them alongside plus a watercolour palette and my paintbrush in the corner of the image

An autumnal collection of botanical finds with my hand written labels of the and my drawings of them alongside, plus creative materials at the top of the photo

four winter flowering plus one berries plant specimen with my hand written labels for them and my drawings of them alongside on white sketchbook paper. The pen I used to make the drawings is nearby

As requested you can now buy a full length recording only of one of my botanical illustration & mental health w'shops.
I teach you how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading & how creative activity improves mental health.
Clips in next post:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...

A selection of recycled silver pendants made using the technique I teach in my online silver workshop foundation course

Beautiful pieces made by beginners in one of my face to face silver workshops in 2021

Anita Rani in my dining room with the recycled silver cast of yarrow I taught her to make on BBC Countryfile

Recycled silver blackberry earrings made by a beginner during one of my silver classes

You can learn to cast nature finds in silver & how this activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health on my 10 day online course-begins 31 Jan
I've taught this w'shop on BBC Countryfile & the Victoria & Albert museum.Incl discount on materials:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/silv...

In case you’re stuck indoors, feeling low or anxious or there’s big snow where you are, here are hundreds of snowdrops (also called Candlemas bells) in a hedgerow & gentle winter sun (& a car, sorry) I filmed on 3rd Feb last year. Are you a fan of these little flowers?
🌱🌱

Two Rose Chafers (very big green shiny scarab-like beetles) on ragwort flowers.

Rose Chafers.

So lovely

Ah sorry should have checked the alt

I can do…might make a small collection in the next couple of weeks…🐚

Just so lovely

Ooh that little blue one. Might it be a hepatica?

Then it'll be especially joyful when they flower...so ace.