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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 4h

Miniscule early 20th C sterling silver compass-I’ll be combining this with charms &/or semi precious stones to create a one-off necklace:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 4h

This Weds eve I’ll be listing a collection of one-off necklaces made using these silver Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders,lockets, charms & smallest silver compass I’ve ever seen(next post👇🏼).Penultimate collection before🌲.To enquire/reserve click 💬 top R of my page: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

A collection of Victorian & Edwardian sterling silver stamp holders, lockets, charms & converted brooches that will be the basis of a collection listed Weds eve at 9pm in my Etsy shop

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12h

I reckon they were nerines-flower in October:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12h

A tiny posy of October garden flowers in a cobalt blue Victorian ink bottle. There are small spots of dopamine-inducing floral colour out there if you search for it...🌿

A tiny posy of flowers found in the garden and a very few very common ones from a nearby hedgerow, in a cobalt blue Victorian ink bottle

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

October leaf palette. If you zoom in to the colours and details it will dial down stress a little and help you recover if there's any angst for you later today (research has shown this)🍁🍂🌾🌿

Leaves from 6 different trees & shrubs collected in October and arranged to create a colour shift echoing a rainbow

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here’s my capybara pebble to help slightly more 🪶

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Part of one of my workshops explaining how immersing yourself in drawing, stitching, cooking, baking-any creative activity alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. 20% off my November botanical class ends this evening: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My bird illustration & mental health workshop taking place tomorrow evening is 20% off and enrolment is open till 7pm. Clip from my bird illustration workshops in this post and the one below (1/2): workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

VERY IMPORTANT DAVE THE ROBIN UPDATE: a visit to his own special dish of mealworms ✔️💯👍🏼:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dave the robin has already popped in to see me once this morning so I’ve put a special dish of mealworms out on the mat for him:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I found a collection of tiny hagstones my daughters collected 15 yrs ago & realised most of them are also faces. Focussing on small good things is one way I hack my brain on days when depression’s winning.These tiny horrified faces (they saw last night’s Traitors👀) pinged good dopamine in my brain…😮

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It would be *so* helpful if you could RT the post above about my workshop sale. I’m still trying to get back on my feet after being really unwell. Any RTs help put my classes in front of more eyes. Thankyou so much 🌿

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm having a 24 hr flash sale on my upcoming zoom w’shops: *20% OFF*bird illustration & mental health w’shop this Sat AND botanical illustration w’shop 7Nov: Learn to draw plants/birds &how creative activity is like taking 3 different meds for mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/collections?...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last chance to join my bird illustration & mental health workshop on zoom this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶...to draw several different bird species using my simple formula 🧠...creative activity (incl drawing) alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sound up in the film in the post above 👆🏼 if you’d like to hear our small, slightly one-sided chat. More clips of Dave’s visit earlier today:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still struggling with my mental health tbh, especially around low income & ‘failing as a human’ (this may be internal ableism tbh) BUT Dave my garden robin now comes to say hi every day,even when there are mealworms outside step for him. He seems to like visiting me. He lifts my mood a lot tbh:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ll be listing a collection of necklaces in my Etsy shop this Thurs eve (9 UK time) I’ll be making using these Victorian & Edwardian silver stamp holders,lockets, charms, converted brooches (THE OWL) & a tiny 18th C whistle.To enquire/reserve a piece click 💬 on my page: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spindle leaf palette in October, complete with Barbie pinks:

Spindle, Euonymous europeaus leaves in autumn, arranged on a wooden table and with a hand written label

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are just 6 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health zoom w'shop this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶to draw birds using my simple formula 🧠creative activity incl. drawing alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Open to anyone anywhere: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

My illustrations of 5 British birds: long tailed tit, coal tit, wren, redwing and blackcap

My illustration of a redwing on a hawthorn branch from my book Making Winter

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A necklace commission I made for a US customer who adores thistles: it started with a Victorian silver thistle flower charm, I made a recycled silver flower bud & thistle leaf,added a facetted peridot & fluorite (I think the natural stripes echo tartan just a little)& a clover-shaped charm holder☘️ :

A recent necklace commission I made using a Victorian silver thistle flower charm

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:

A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw the first real signs of autumn in local trees today. All this colour is to come:

Autumnal leaves of many different colours being preserved in glycerin to keep them from drying and decaying

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2/2 cont'd: 2)👀 scanning your eyes to look for the stag will help with trauma (really) 3) 🌿the botanical patterns will help you recover from stress more quickly 4) 🦌when you find the stag you'll get another burst of dopamine. Quite a few good things happening in your meat computer from 1 photo...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the post below this is the very first 'find the...' photo I made about a yr ago.There's a miniscule silver plated stag 🦌 hidden among the autumnal finds. It'll help your mental health in 4 different ways... 1) If you find the photo pleasing that triggers a burst of dopamine in yr 🧠 cont'd 1/2...

rosehips, sycamore keys, beech nuts, acorns, a fennel seedhead, ivy buds, a pinecone and Boston ivy berries, part of my first Find the... photo

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can always make a little silver weasel...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you'd like to learn to draw plants AND the neuroscience of how making things alters brain biochemistry in extremely therapeutic ways, I have have 2 full recordings (2 seasons of plants) of my botanical illustration & mental health workshops here for £25: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I confess I don't really know what means - would the silver sulphate have oxidised the engraved marks so enhancing the design maybe making is bright silver and very dark in the engraving? I do something v. similar with liver of sulphate with my cast silver pieces/charms made from real nature finds:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The weasel in question: miniscule, Georgian, so possibly 200 years old or more, sterling silver, engraved with tiny ivy leaves, still tooting small toots (toot!) and will be in a collection of my jewellery v soon... Completely in love with it tbh...who tooted on it? What stories could it tell?

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mysterious message from an eBay seller yesterday. Apparently everything is fine with the weasel...👀 Has hints of 'Grey squirrel is in Gregg's with the trombone'-some kind of secret squirrelly spy action. Bit sad to realise that I think it's a typo - I bid on & won a tiny silver whistle yesterday...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not begun in a stitchy way yet, but here’s the start of a project I’ve been planning: using Swiss darning to add stitched pixelated ‘tattoos’ to a chunky jumper from eBay. 1st tattoo:my pal Steve the blackbird. Pixelating Steve has really helped my brain today (2nd photo= the yarn I’ll be using):

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

l'm holding my botanical illustration& mental health w'shop just once this autumn-7 Nov I'll teach you how: 🌿to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading 🧠creative activity alters brain biochemistry-like taking 3 different meds for yr mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Autumnal finds from my local wood on a Kraft paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside

Finds from the garden on a white paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside, with a cup of tea and posy nearby

An autumnal collection of nature finds from the garden and seasonal walks on a kraft paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside, along with some art materials and a collection of shells on a wooden table

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another v tough day with PMDD symptoms today, but here’s a bouquet from the garden from a few years ago 🌿:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A difficult day-my symptoms of PMDD are severe(hormone-based condition linked to autism-a disability in the UK). I’m not kind to myself on days when it stops me being able to work-I need a far kinder inner monologue.Been longing to embroider one of my jumpers,so might begin,to try to lift my mood 🌿

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm trying to get back on my feet after being really unwell at the moment, so if you come across my tweet above and are happy to retweet it would help me so much-it would put my workshops in front of more eyes. Thankyou 🌿

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s still some space on my 2 upcoming zoom w’shops:bird illustr’n & mental health,10 Oct & botanical illustr’n & mental health,7 Nov.I teach you how to draw birds/plants & how creative activity alters 🧠 biochemistry to lift mood.Incl 10% off materials & full recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk

Cornflowers, nigella, sweet peas & Russian safe & my drawings of them on the opposite page of a sketchbook

A spring collection of nature finds and my drawings of them alongside, on white watercolour paper with my watercolour palette & paintbrush in the corner

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She was 17 when she made that photo, but 13 when she made this one:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She’s *really* into it, yes-she & I made this photo of the eclipse which went a bit viral.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finalising the gemstone choices for a necklace commission using an Edwardian sterling stamp holder, antique barn owl charm & tiny working Edwardian silver bell. The loveliest process…

Components of a jewellery commission with Edwardian silver stamp holder & charms and the possible gemstone options

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿

Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

20 seconds of Dave the robin relaxing near the bird café-he knows he’s well hidden from cats & sparrow hawks & is *very* well fed and watered. He’s basically at a birdy spa day rn…🪶 Also v relaxing for your brain, as footage of appealing animals & birds alleviates anxiety in humans…

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You're whelkome (hope your brain enjoys this big ole spirally snaily lightning whelk fractal). Would so love to chat some time, are you still based in York? xx

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ooh maybe The Old Ways?- I think he was talking about one or more of the white horses and Ravilious' depiction of The Uffington one and the ancient chalky grassland landscapes Rob also loves.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An autumnal wreath I made from small finds from a walk ...and my illustration of it✒️🍂🌾🌿🔃

A wreath I've made from wild clematis, trimmed with a guinea fowl feather, acorn and oak leaves, beech leaves, campion seedheads from my garden, dried hydrangea florets, hawthorn and a sprig or Russian sage.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September garden & hedgerow palette: today's botanical dopamine for your brain. If you're feeling anxious or low, research shows that my photo will shift your brain biochemistry for the better - help you recover from stress & lift motivation & mood a little, so maybe pause for a few seconds 🌿🧠

Garden and hedgerow botanical finds in September, arranged in a rainbow on a white watercolour paper background and with a handwritten label

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Morose squirrel seems to have been a theme during medieval yore:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A medieval lady & her pet squirrel from the Luttrell Psalter, 14th C👇🏼: ‘Oi Pam, got any nuts?’ ‘Not now Squigg, I’m contemplating the current massive shift from fragmented feudal power to centralized national monarchies.’

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A small good thought for your Monday in case you’re feeling a bit down: every autumn squirrels forget where they put millions of the acorns they’ve stashed for winter & so plant a load of oak trees by mistake. 🐿️ 🌰 🌳 ✔️ A medieval squirrel with her snack:

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is duck/gherkin-dherkin. He’s reassuring to hold on not such good days & is a very good tho unusual sort of handmade egg. Also my vesta case being worn:

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