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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & found a little pal hidden in forfrond greenery, so the wish for all good folk is to remember how absolutely fine it is to be small in a big world, to tuck in & tuck away when all is overwhelming & just be gentle amongst growing things...

a tiny snail in its shell hidden amongst ferns & green leaves.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🦋 Made from plants that surround the tucked away garden bench where they were worked, a little batch of lavender filled crochet woollen butterflies to safely store away summer things with, their natural colours yielded from botanical dyes of buddleja, elderflower, & lavender...

sat on a wooden tabletop is a pink & floral decorated tray, filled with cakes of wool in yellow, pink, & green, a little butterfly shaped label perched stop them to identify which plant dyed which colour, & four crochet butterflies laid out neatly to fill the rest of the tray.

a close up of the label to read my spider scrawl handwriting better!

a close up of the happy little butterflies!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌱 Flowers for Friday & with the return of the rains so much of the garden has sprung to life again! So sprigs of buddleja, lavender, daisies, colts foot, curling ferns, & fragrant grapefruit mint...

a little vintage clear glass vase perched on a stone garden step, filled with a wild & weedy selection of garden flowers & greenery, with a weathered dark painted wooden gate behind.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🐌Snippets of a snail slow life - a tiny bouquet of garden gathered flowers; crocheting butterflies using botanically home dyed wool; adding tassels to naturally coloured wooden flat baubles; & a fifty pence Friday at the favourite charity shop find of a faux agate leaf brooch...

four pictures, the first a collection of wild & weedy garden flowers in a small glass vase, second a table top shot of a floral tray filled with crochet butterflies & cakes of wool, thirdly a flat wooden bauble with a glittery butterfly stamped on, sporting a tassel & charm, lastly a leaf shaped brooch displayed on a fallen cherry leaf on the garden stones - fancy!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🐾 Yorkshire Water are digging up one garden (& the street & the road!) so we decided to do our own engineering works in the other for to replace the rotted gatepost - utterly cream crackered but the task is done! Now for a brew & not moving from an armchair until tomorrow...

a small sausage dog in a sunny patch of garden, surveying a selection of tools worthy of an industrious dwarf faced with a new mine.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐌 Rainy afternoon kitchen table crafting using a charity shop found vintage gardening book for to make pretty seed envelopes, filled with seeds dried & saved from the tiny terrace garden & a tiny snail model all ready for gifting along with a snaily folk seed sowing saying...

a bright floral crochet tablecloth spread with a vintage gardening book, a notebooks opening to a handwritten saying, a totem ware bowl of seed sachets, & lots of little envelopes folded from the book pages.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🧶 A woof & wander for the inaugural wear of the Tidal Treasures Cardigan - stormy blue vintage '60s cat eye buttons were the perfect finishing touch for this knitting project, thank you for the style advice folks! And yep, by the third snap Dave was getting quite heavy indeed...

a Yorkshire pudding of a lass holding a small dog wearing a handknit cardi with a hedge & apple tree behind

the same picture but with a laughing face as the pudding lass strikes a baltering pose

the same but with a little grumpy goblin expression on as Dave was getting heavy!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - wearing a just finished hand knit cardigan for a little woof & wander; a bowl of foraged elderberries found for natural dyeing; the return of His Tiny Highnesses garden squirrel nemesis; a rainy afternoon seed saving at the kitchen table...

four pictures, the first a Yorkshire pudding of a lass holding a small dog wearing a handknit cardi with a hedge behind, the next a vintage mixing bowl filled with elderberries perched on a weathered garden bench, next a squirrel peeking through the hedge, lastly a bright floral crochet cloth spread with gardening books & notebooks & seeds

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

✨ Today is for being tired, so we are being slug a beds & snoozing the day away - catch up tomorrow lovely folk!

a small sausage dog asleep in yellow paisley printed bedding.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🐌 And an almost finished knitting project of Tidal Treasures Cardigan designed by Drops - it has been languishing in the work basket since '23! Now just the serious business of button choosing to be done - vintage cat eye in a suitable stormy blue, or cheery kitsch anchors...?

a blue knitted cardigan with a wave textured yoke hangs on a weathered garden gate

a close up of the textured yoke & the buttons in consideration - vintage blue or kitsch anchors?

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🦋 Natural dyeing with garden gathered buddleja blooms that have yielded the beautiful botanical colours of sunshine yellow from the flowers alone & moss green by saddening with iron - have a notion to store these skeins away as a gift of summer in the dark depths of winter...

twisted skeins of yellow & green wool on an antique plate sat on grass, a buddleja blooms perched on the wool & small brass butterfly ornaments arranged beneath.

the undyed skeins of yarn on the antique plate, with a good collection of pink & purple flowers around.

the little colour cauldron in action bubbling away in the greenhouse!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌼A makeover indeed! This fifty pence charity shop find of a wooden tray has been brightened with some pink wood paint & then a patchwork of flower hexagons cut from a vintage garden book glued & varnished securely into place - now it shall host handmade projects & cups of tea...

perched on a garden wall next to a burst of Erigeron is a pink painted tray with the base covered in a patchwork of bright florals.

the tray in its plain original state, leaning against a garden gate with a different vintage plant book.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - & it is a bevy of beauties to share with buddleja flower home dyed wool in sunshine yellow & moss green; seed grown cosmos blooming bright; a malingering knitting project done but for the buttons; a ta dah of a second hand tray makeover...

four pictures, the first twisted skeins of wool on an antique plate with flowers & butterfly ornaments, the next a pink cosmos blooming, the next a hand knit cardigan hanging on a garden gate, the last a small tray covered in colourful vintage floral paper.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & huge hushed downpours have finally returned to thirsty land! The wish for all good folks is to take each season at a gentle pace, to enjoy the sun & delight in the rain, remembering that together they make the sweet garden apples grow...

a gloriously chunky garden snail is gliding over rain drenched fallen apples left on a weathered wooden bench.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - a little catch up of peony delights from earlier in this sun drenched summer, including making peony flower jam which was deliciously floral & rather lovely heaped on crumpets...

a pink peony flower in a vintage glass jug on a stone garden step with a dark painted wooden gate behind.

a ceramic colander of pink peonies on green grass with a little sausage dog stood behind gleaming in the sun.

a large jar of deep pink jam on a blue painted table with a peony bloom in a small vase & a tiny brass sausage dog model.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🌱 Flowers on Friday, & a simple arrangement of scorchingly bright spikes of crocosmia, alongside taking harvest of the drought dried leaves for to tickle a certain snoozing sausage dog, but also to store away in the hopes of trying a hand at cordage making come the autumn...

orange flowers in a vintage glass vase against a weathered black painted garden gate.

a small sleepy sausage dog snoozing on sun scorched grass, batting away a bundle of dried leaves his cruel human is tickling him with.

a bundle of leaves laid out on lichen dotted garden stone

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🐌 The favourite local charity shop is doing fifty pence Friday so popped along & found a small tray most in need of a tiny terrace style floral makeover, & a chunky vintage plant book with nefarious vague future plans for to turn the pages into giftable pretty seed envelopes...

against a green painted wooden gate lean a plain wood tray & a vintage penguin gardening book.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - nasturtiums growing good & green from a hollowed out sycamore stump down the bottom of the garden; fifty pence Friday finds at the favourite charity shop; fire bright crocosmia in a vintage vase; a little snaily friend travelling the steps...

four pictures, the first a garden stump sporting a crop of leafy greenery, the next a plain tray & vintage gardening book leaning against a green painted gate, the next a small glass vase of orange flowers against a black wooden gate, the last a small snail on stone garden steps with leafy greenery beside.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🦋 The little colour cauldron is bubbling away again with butterfly bush buddleja blooms garden gathered for to botanically dye wool! Feeling much more up to snuff doing familiar happy things of flower picking & finding natural colour, accompanied as ever by His Tiny Highness...

a montage of pictures featuring a vintage plate with skeins of undyed wool & a small sausage dog investigating them, a little glass jug of daisies, & then a small Crockpot depot bubbling away in a greenhouse

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🐾A Dave update - he's doing so well now, but has had ops in a continuous saga of an unerupted baby fang jaw infection. In the first surgery his heart failed with over 2 mins of him being gone & requiring resuscitation, then insisted on walking himself out after the whole ordeal!

a little sausage dog walking himself through a carpark, front paw bandaged from his IV line, followed by the loyal butler human in a red dress.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🐌 Hello again lovely folks - there have been gentle days dreaming amidst drifts of bee humming garden clover, the sun soothing us through recovering from our various ailments, so most happy to announce we are tentatively returning with shenanigans of our snail slow living...

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🐌Sorry to have worried folks by being absent but was rather suddenly & spectacularly unwell with sepsis complications - struggling to find my feet with this new variety of normal so expect to be offline a bit longer & a huge thank you for the kind well wishes here & in the post!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🧶 In need of a sitting still day so began stitching little flowers on the newly knitted chunky yellow jumper - the wool used has a lovely rustic roughspun feel, lending a folksy style to the embroidered blooms that with a bit more work will become a spring petal wreathed yoke...

On mossy & dandelion studded garden grass a yellow hand knit jumper is laid out, a ball of wool perched on one shoulder, & little embroidered flowers about the neckline.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

✨ Apologies - didn't mean to post & run yesterday - currently slowly recovering from sepsis damage & had a funny turn with a most unfunny fall to follow, so needing to be very gentle & restful with my silly little self!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🌿 Home gathered flowers for Friday - the garden here at the tiny terrace is in fine spring form offering up drifts of purple blooming honesty, green tendrils of fragrant thyme, fairy hat worthy spikes of bluebells, & eternal favourites of blue forget me nots...

A little vintage glass vase filled with wild garden flowers, sat on a stone step with a dark painted wooden gate behind.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - buttery thumbprint biscuits baked with sea buckthorn jam (tastes both deliciously tart & tropical for those wondering!); knitting done on the yellow jumper so time to move to embroidery embellishments; a happy little garden gathered bouquet...

A vintage plate of jam biscuits resting on an open notebook with the handwritten recipe page on show, with little vases of wild garden flowers & mint above, all on a blue painted slatted table.

A yellow jumper now with both sleeves all finished knitting & hanging on the back of a weathered garden gate.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🐾 Under bright sun & scudding dark clouds for a ta dah! of the finished crochet patchwork heart rug made for His Tiny Highness - an elevenses treat of a fortune cookie was the bribe for being photographed, & the fortune was most suited indeed to this stubborn little sausage...

A small black & tan sausage dog sat on a crochet rug of a big yellow heart on a cream background, on dandelion studded garden grass.

Same dog, same rug, same grass, but now Dave is crunching up a fortune cookie with the paper fortune to the side.

The fortune nestled in mossy grass by a dandelion & stripey snail.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - returning to unfinished projects in a fit of resolve for to complete them, starting with a mostly done knitted chunky jumper; rich pink blossom beginning on sapling mini martini crab apples; awed by a most majestic beshelled garden beastie...

On a weather worn garden gate is hung a mostly finished yellow knitted jumper, with a squashy yellow work basket sat on the path before it.

Pink blossom buds in a garden planter, with a small sausage dog sneaking into shot too!

A lovely old garden snail, horns out, on bumpy old stone.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🧶 Project progress on the crochet patchwork rug - all seams joined up & a big bobble edge onto the home stretch! Then just all the ends to tidy & the beloved little hound shall be loafing & lounging in loving style for to soak up rays of golden garden sunshine...

A crochet blanket in the making of a large yellow heart patchwork style on a cream background, with a bobble edging almost finished, the crochet hook & ball of working yarn sat on the corner, all spread out on mossy filled green grass.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - His Tiny Highness helping for to finish the lingering project of a crochet patchwork rug by snooze testing it in the spring sunshine; buds coming along on the twisty little garden apple tree; & a most fancy posh gift of sea buckthorn jam...

A shiny little sausage dog laid on a half made crochet blanket on moss filled green grass.

Budding apple blossom against a green hedge & under blue sky.

A glass jar of posh jam nestled amongst the happy weeds of the garden path for to take its picture

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🌱 Hello again - have indeed been away being horrendously unwell, but like wild green weeds that grow am popping back up again!

A tiny little self sown plant growing between the slats of a dark painted wooden garden bench.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & was happily joined by a thirsty snail in the greenhouse whilst the wind rattled the panes, so the wish for all good folk is may you know peaceful company, & may you freely share something as simple as a drink with a sheltering beastie...

Four pictures showing a small snail climbing basil cuttings for to reach a soily splodge of water, drink it up, then adventure off, turning back at the last for a leafy chomp!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🐌 Sharp eyes can spot a snail brooch due to a rhyme of this little patch of the world - 'three seeds do I sow, one for to wither, one for to thrive, one for the snail to eat for his dinner' - keep snaily clutter close by when sowing to help hungry snails remember the bargain...

A cluttered potting bench of recycled pots & green growing plants, a small clay snail brooch at the front alongside the big fancy gardening spoon

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - lilac buds even as the wind wuthers; safe inside the little greenhouse sowing seeds & planting regrown kitchen scraps into recycled pots; the fine company of a snaily pal...

Green clusters of buds on a thick woody stem against a grey sky

A little real snail wandering along the edge of the potting bench!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🧶 His Tiny Highness donning his barkclava for to keep wind & rain from his delicate little lugs whilst garden frolicking - realised had forgotten to share the crochet pattern recipe so please do enjoy inflicting the self same silly snuggly stitches on your own beloved beasties!

A small sausage dog in a crochet star design barkclava, out in a sunny but cold garden!

The same as the previous picture but a snout on shot!

The crochet pattern recipe, handwritten in an open notebook - please do visit the free crochet gallery over on the Kofi (link in bio) for more pictures as ever!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🐌 Been a smidgen under the weather again, so made sure for to brave the raindrops for a buds & blossoms little garden adventure!

Buds coming on the twisty little garden apple tree

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🐾 Thank you so much for the home coming anniversary wishes - Dave always adores a fuss being made of him!

A tiny sleepy puppy nestled up to his teddy with a striped knit blanket behind - if only they stayed this small forever!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & it is finally spring! So the wish for all good folk is may you have time in soft sunlight, may there be a garden growing good & green, & should you be found munching in the potted herbs, may you be gently relocated to a clover patch...

A yellow stripes snail quite happy amongst the mint herb trimmings!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🐾 Also the 1 year anniversary of Dave losing use of his back legs to IVDD, requiring emergency spinal surgery & spending the year relearning how to walk - a bottom of our hearts thank you to everyone who has so kindly & generously helped & supported us through this rotten time!

A montage of the last of Dave working so hard to get in his paws again!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🐾 Today is Dave day, marking eight amazing years of His Tiny Highness, Dave the mini dachshund, first arriving home! Shall be spending the day adoring this beloved little hound (as always!) & being ever so glad for his arrival into my life...

A little black & tan sausage dog puppy sleeps with his teddy which is bigger than him in a blanket snuggled bed, a little sign behind declaring the date.

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - thunderbird blue scarf knitting along nicely; a folkling feast of (fruity jelly) rabbit for to celebrate the spring equinox marking the end of winter & all things coming to life again; drawing runes hoping for insight of this brave new season...

On lichen speckled old garden stone is an open notebook with a handwritten knitting pattern & snails stamped on the page, a knitted scarf in progress draped over & the ball of wool to the top.

A vintage glass rabbit jelly mould filled with red jelly - strawberry, apple, & elderflower flavour - perched on a stone garden gatepost with a blossoming hedge behind.

A shiny gold flake filled rune stone nestled in bright green moss

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

✨ A spring frolic of a belated birthday adventure off to the steep cobbles of Haworth, & a good old snoop about the Brontë Parsonage Museum...

Pictures of Haworth sights - heavy on the Brontë buildings & portraits!

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🐌 Very little to report as enjoyed a most sleepy day, snoozing under blankets in chill spring sunshine with the beloved little hound as a dreaming companion...

Flowering honesty & wild green weeds growing in the gaps between old garden stone flags, with a wooden garden gate in the background.

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