Dab and Smudge

31/01/2026

Some more textured waves off to their forever homes today. Different colours to match different rooms and preferences.

27/12/2025

Playing around with gifts - my friend is Barbados (the lucky so&so) and sent me this pic of the sunset...

19/12/2025

Still time to post before Christmas! Visit my website for more details.

11/12/2025

What’s On – December at Grow Wellbeing 🌿✨

This December, we’re closing the year with a mix of outdoor play, community gatherings, singing and warming winter activities across the Bentinck Street Community Garden and our site in the woods at Bidston Hill.

All of our sessions listed here are free, rooted in nature, and all about having fun and feeling connected, outside! The weather is beautiful 🙂 whatever the weather 🙂

Here’s what’s happening.

🍃 Kid’s Club – Bentinck Street Community Garden
Saturdays 13 and 20 December
10 am to 12 pm
Ages 5 to 14
Nature crafts, outdoor play and forest-school fun.

🌲 Youth in Nature – Bidston Hill
Saturday 13 December
10 am to 12 pm
Ages 11 to 16
Explore the woods, build fires and learn outdoor skills with our Forest School team. Perfect for nature loving youngsters who just want to be free 🙂

🌿 Volunteer Gardening – Bentinck Street Community Garden
Saturdays 13 and 20 December
10 am to 12 pm
Open to all
Help care for the garden and enjoy time outdoors with others.

🔥 Outdoor Cooking Club – Bentinck Street Community Garden
Wednesdays 10 and 17 December
10 am to 1 pm
18 plus
Seasonal outdoor cooking and shared food around the fire. A weekly club, be a regular✨or drop in when you want/can. You’re always welcome.

🌼 Grow a Community Garden – Bentinck Street Community Garden
Thursdays 11 and 18 December
1 pm to 3 pm
18 plus
Gentle gardening, wellbeing and connection. Learning new growing skills. A weekly club. Be a regular ✨ or drop in when you want/can. You’re always welcome.

🎶 Winter Solstice Singing – Bidston Hill Woodland
Sunday 21 December
3 pm to 4 pm
Meet at Boundary Hill car park just before 3pm to be shown to the site.
Join our newly formed choir and celebrate the Winter Solstice with fireside folk singing in the woods.
*this is now fully booked.

🎄 Christmas Family Day – Bentinck Street Community Garden
Monday 22 December
Time TBC
A super fun, nature-based festive family celebration with crafts, nature activities and winter warming fresh food and hot drinks.

💚 All events are free and require booking.
👉 Book now – link in bio

07/12/2025

Prints now available:

A3 - £20 + £4.99 P&P
A4 - £15 + £3.50 P&P
A5 - £10 + £3.50 P&P

Visit www.dabandsmudge.com

04/12/2025

Saturday 6th December 11am. Judith Kennedy will be reading from her new book Elephant, What Elephant? There will be colouring in activities and photo ops with elephant disguises. Perfect for ages 2- 6. FREE.

03/12/2025

Testing out my new acrylics. Inspired by The Wave but much closer to home.

22/10/2025

19/10/2025

I've put my shops on hold for a while, it's been so long since I played around with paint. Printing, packing, posting, sorting taxes and receipts... Not really what most people would call a hobby.

This was fun, and messy, and full of mistakes. I showed it to my in-laws over dinner last night and ended up with requests for Christmas! At least I don't need to do taxes for those.