by Jane Haselden | Jul 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
My next little book is all planned out, but I found that there was something else that I needed to do first – Finish that basket that I began back in February. It’s been calling to me for some time and I have done my best to ignore it, but over the past... 
by Jane Haselden | Jul 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Finding my focus with a simpler life once more, has already had a huge impact on my work. It has given me the opportunity to strip everything back to the core and to consider what is important to me and what I want to hold on to, as I move forward. The garden is a... 
by Jane Haselden | Jun 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have just had some wonderfully restorative time off, with my family. Just simple days at home or out walking, and the perfect opportunity to organise my thoughts, which sometimes feel as though they are in a whirl! I think that when we left Orkney, a part of me felt... 
by Jane Haselden | Jun 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
As promised, a post about my little hand stitched book. What do books mean to you? To me a book is something to be treasured. Books have somehow woven themselves into the fabric of my life. As a child with a big imagination, they offered new worlds to explore. Later,... 
by Jane Haselden | Apr 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
I think that I would find it very difficult to live more than a short walk from the sea, at this point in my life. I didn’t grow up by the sea. I grew up in Buckinghamshire and my weekends were more likely to be spent exploring central London, than the coast. In... 
by Jane Haselden | Mar 1, 2025 | Basketry & Natural Crafts, Uncategorized
Our garden in Angus is very different to our gardens in the Orkney Islands, in so many ways. Where we were once surrounded by fields and open spaces, we are now tucked behind a busy high street. A high wall, which is thought to be older than our 1600’s house,...
