Preparation month

November, I feel like it’s so overlooked, we don’t get time to enjoy it as a beautiful Autumn month. We can have gorgeous bright clear days, and the possibility of a frost. Which mean’s I really need to get to the allotment and have a big tidy and mulch and protect some of the plants that need a blanket over winter. ❄️

This is also when my Christmas prep begins, over the next week I’ll start mossing my wreath frames, wiring pine cones and cinnamon sticks, ready for the workshops. I start gathering ideas for my designs for wreaths and table centers. 🎄
This year I’ve decided not to do any Christmas markets. They are so time consuming with preparing and making items to sell and I feel that most are visited for people having a wander, grabbing a mulled wine and not necessarily buying! Well not my items anyway 😆 It also gives me a chance to do more workshops, which is my absolute favourite thing to do! I’m holding 3 dates at a venue I’ve used before and this year I’m also at a local 1940’s tearoom, The Bell Hotel in Hoddesdon.

Yes November is definitely overlooked by me, it’s the calm before the storm and I feel I need to take a day here and there to enjoy some time with my family and my girl Eve our Labradoodle, who we have had a year on 4th this month!
So please do the same, Christmas can bring so much stress to many, family gatherings, financial strain, the 🥶 cold. Do something you love or take time out, watch a film, go get a really indulgent hot chocolate, curl up under blanket with a book. 📕 You could even book in with me for a couple of hours of creative fun, surround yourself with winter scented foliage and lots of laughs at one of the workshops!
whatever it is you choose, do it for you, it won’t be long before we’re dishing up pigs in blankets and stuffing 😜
Much love Sam ♥️