Pearl-bordered Fritillary {One frame}

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Hello my friends! 

This week I’ve got a new butterfly one frame and I’m super excited to share it with you, I recently went on a flight survey day with Butterfly Conservation with the aim of recording how many Pearl-bordered fritillaries we could find!

In reality we were eight grown-ups wondering around a place called Pendirft bottom on Bodmin moor, either up to our knees in dead bracken or ankle deep in boggy mud…it was awesome!! The views were spectacular, there were deer in the distance, I even found a slow-worm!

All in all we spotted about 25 of these endangered little guys over the five hours we were there (which apparently made it a pretty good year!) and I was totally thrilled to get a few really good shots of one of the butterflies that was a) in focus b) a decent composition and c) in focus. It was fairly close to the end of the day and I think he (or she) must’ve thought this weirdo with the camera has been following us all day, best give her a break and sit still. 

I love how it has blue/grey eyes in contrast to the rest of its being.

A pearl-bordered fritillary was a first for me and the patterns on its underwing were beautiful!! I really like how bright it seems in relation to the dead, dry bracken, plus the light was perfect.

I really hope you like this photo and that my butterfly filled posts spread a little bit of happiness. I’m definitely feeling like making an embroidered one of these! As always thanks for reading and have a wonderful nature filled week!

A day among the flowers

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Hey friends!

We’re beginning to get increasingly closer to all the beautiful flowers being in bloom and I thought I’d share some recent clicks of pretty flowers I’ve taken. Some from my garden and some from the wild and I wanted to take you guys along with me so you can enjoy the relaxing atmosphere and pretty plants too! 

It wasn’t until I sat to look over my photos that I realised I’d been focusing on pink flowers! I hope these photos bring as much joy to your day as much as they did mine.

Its funny I hadn’t realised just how many plants are pink!

Starting off my wildflower quest is a little light pink Scabious, I love these and am actually growing about a dozen of these plants in my Wildspace, as long as you cut the faded heads off they flower all summer long and the butterflies love them.

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The Glorious 25th of May!

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Hello friends! 

Welcome back…unless this is first time you’ve read one of my posts, then, hey! How ya doing and most importantly welcome!! 

Tomorrow is The Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May and I’ve got a new piece of hand lettering art to share with you this week. Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love and a hard boiled egg! Is a quote from Terry Pratchett’s brilliant Discworld novel Night Watch. Sir Terry was a genius and is my favourite author second only to Tolkien.

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Embroidered Butterfly #6 {Speckled wood}

On By ArtyMissKIn Art, Needlework Bugs6 Comments

Hey friends! 

A couple of weeks ago I posted a One Frame of a Speckled wood butterfly – a rather pretty brown and cream chap who usually lives in the woods, I felt so super excited to have seen one of these so early in the year that I couldn’t help but want to create a needlework version. 

A Speckled wood has a real life wingspan of almost 5cm. There isn’t too much difference between and males and females so I just made the one – but might add another to this post later. All in all my needlework version has a wingspan of about 10cm to keep it inline with my ‘twice life size’ scale.

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Speckled Wood butterfly {One frame}

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Hey friends! 

I’ve got a little one frame to share with you this week, lets be honest it wasn’t going to be long before butterflies took over the theme of my posts again was it! I was actually planning to post some new bug illustrations I’ve been working on but this little guy (or girl) fluttered into the garden a couple of days ago.

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Fleeting thought #4 {treasured possessions and Kintsugi}

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Hello friends, I hope you had a good week!

Today I wanted to share the fourth Fleeting Thought with you.

The first three Fleeting Thoughts have been fairly nature based, the first being the unchanging/immortal existence of stones with holes in known as Hagstones and the second being the momentary lives of sandcastles, but this time I wanted to try something a bit different.

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Embroidered Butterfly #4 & #5 {Large & Small White}

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Hey friends! 

Are you enjoying the last of the summer sunshine?

A while ago I posted a Complete Lifecycle of the Large white and then a couple of weeks ago I shared a One frame of two Small white butterflies mating…I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for cabbage butterflies – purely because of the fact that they’re treated as pests, in my mind it makes ‘em a bit of an underdog.

I thought that as they’re so similar I’d create both types in needlework at the same time, so this is both #4 and #5 on my Embroidered Butterfly challenge – only 53 more to go!!!

Similar to my Orange tip butterflies, you can easily distinguish between the two sexes of both types and can clearly see the size difference as well. They’re white with black wingtips (although the female have slightly creamy lower wings) and I thought it would be fun to create both a male and female, size wise the little pair of Small whites are about 7cm across (so they’re slightly smaller than the others I’ve already made!) While the Large whites have a wingspan of almost 14cm!! The body of each one has a crocodile clip sewn on so that I can attach the butterflies to plants, but I’ve also been wearing them in my hair.

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