Melinda Nicholds-Brown

The sun is shining and everything feels infinitely more lovely. I really do love the sunshine and enjoyed getting out in to the garden to give the chicken coup a little clean and to rearrange the 'furniture'. I am down to just three girls at the moment and so popped a little email over to the local egg farmer to see if they wanted to rehome any old girls or trouble-makers to bolster my numbers. No response yet - but hopefully I get up to 10 feathered friends before Easter. Emma and I have...

When we looked at the diary on Monday morning, we both agreed it was going to be a nice quiet week  at Larkswold. No workshops in the studio until the weekend. Plenty of time to catch up. Of course, what we conveniently forget every time we say this is that actually running workshops is only one small part of what we do. The rest of the week is spent feeding the great Larkswold machine. That means dreaming up new workshop ideas, tweaking existing ones with our tutors, unloading kit from...

This Week's Exciting Milestone: We Went Viral on Instagram! This week has been nothing short of exhilarating for us! We are thrilled to share that we have finally gone viral on Instagram, gaining a whopping 2,000 followers overnight and racking up an incredible 200,000 views on our mini bookmaking reel. It feels like a dream come true, and we can’t help but feel like little kids again, constantly refreshing our phones to watch our follower count soar and see those hundreds of additional...