Journal Making Nature Retreat!

A very lovely day out with Gill at Holland House Retreat Centre, at a nature inspired journal making retreat.

We went round the gardens collecting flowers and leaves (see extras of my “harvest” and Gill collecting hers) to put on our fabric cover and paper pages which we then bundled up (main blip) and steamed. Meanwhile, we played some more with eco-dyes to make some more pages. Then after un-bundling our steamed packages we left it all to dry out in the sun while we had a delicious lunch.

After lunch we were taught how to bind it all together (definitely the hardest part of the day!). (See extras for the results - my rustic but quite attractive (in my opinion) journal!)

And then we finished off the day with time for personal devotional time out in the gardens followed by a guided time to help us put our thoughts down into our journal - resulting in a mixed media page. Then some cake and tea before we left!

Very grateful to Gill for coming along with me - and for driving! (And to Sam and Paul who took on extra childcare for the day so I could disappear!)