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28 Apr 2010

Share a Magical Moment Outdoors with Kids

Tags: beauty, blossom fairies, butterflies, butterfly girls, children, children and nature, Dragonflies, dragonfly boys, education, educational, Environment, fairy video, Flint, flower fairies, flower fairy video, garden, garden fairies, gardening, jasmine, learning, little humbugs, little humbugs video, lucy, magic, magical, magical fairies, may festival, mystical, natural, Nature, outdoors, photography, play, sunrise, tree fairies, video
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature | 11 Comments

Watching the Sunrise is Magical! Watching the sunrise, has a certain magical quality about it that awakens one’s primal instincts. High up in their blossom hideaway, Butterfly Girls and Dragonfly Boys gaze at the beautiful sunrise, casting warm rays of light on Mother Nature waking up. Enjoy

21 Apr 2010

I am so in love…

Tags: Blossom, blossom butterfly girl, blossom fairy, blossom on the trees, blossom wedding, butterfly fairies, butterfly girl crown, butterfly girls, children, doll, Environment, fairies, fairies in the garden, flower fairies, flower girls, garden, garden photography, gardening, girly, green fairies, green weddings, imagination, Isla, natural, natural fabric, natural toys, natural tweed, Nature, orchard, orchard wedding, outdoors, peach trees, photography, pink, pink blossom, pink butterfly, pink fairies, play, playoutdoors, pollen, scotland, scottish butterfly girl, scottish fairy, scottish tweed, spring, spring blossom, The Little Humbugs, tweed, tweed material, wedding
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 10 Comments

…With Mother Nature And my Butterfly Girls are too. They love to collect the Spring blossom to make beautiful smelling potions. Meet ISLA -My Scottish Tweed Butterfly Girl. Discover the MAGIC Mother Nature has to offer… I love my two little Peach trees, a birthday gift from

31 Mar 2010

CHILDREN + NATURE = HAPPY HEALTHY KIDS

Tags: adventure, backyard fun, climbing, climbing trees, connecting kids to nature, Environment, free play, garden, green, green kids, happy, happy healthy kids, healthy, kids outside, Nature, play, tree climbing, trees
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Design, Environment, Family, Nature, Writing | 15 Comments

Saturday was spent in the forest mountain biking. Sunday was spent in the back yard. The backyard is a place where our children and their friends explore, play, run and climb trees… Sam asked his father for the ladder…. What was he up to? A physical challenge….a

24 Mar 2010

Earth Day-Help Save Our Pollinators

Tags: bees, butterflies, butterfly girls, Dragonfly Boy, earth, earth day, earth day celebrations, eco, Environment, green, healthy kids, healthy palnet, importance of bees, kids, mother nature, Nature, outdoors, planet, pollinators, save the bees, save the butterflies
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 1 Comment

At last, I’ve finished my illustration for the Little Humbugs Earth Day Poster. The Little Humbugs need your help to raise awareness for our pollinators. The Little Humbugs want to raise awareness of the vital role Insects play in the Web of Life, how much we need

18 Mar 2010

Celebrate World Storytelling Day

Tags: celebrate world storytelling day, childrens author, childrens stories, creativity, education, kids stories, learning, outdoors, shadows, stories for kids, storytelling, world storytelling, Writing
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 6 Comments

CELEBRATE WORLD STORYTELLING DAY – MARCH 20th World Storytelling Day was developed in the 1990’s as a worldwide celebration of storytelling, an opportunity for storytellers to share stories on the same day all over the globe. Beginning in Sweden, the day was celebrated as ‘All Storytellers Day’.

05 Mar 2010

Gardening with Chloe-Natural Play Structures

Written by Marghanita, Posted in Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 7 Comments

Welcome back to Gardening with Chloe Chloe is super excited that Spring is almost here- she will be planting her favorite seeds very soon but not just yet….stay tuned! Spring Break Garden Fun Chloe thought she would share the delights of natural play structures and treasures you

16 Feb 2010

Gardening with Chloe – Attracting Butterflies

Tags: attracting butterflies to your garden, butterflies, Chloe, chloe the gardener, connecting kids to nature, conservation gardening, eco, flowers, fun outdoors, gardening, gardening with kids, green, green gardening, insects, kids, natural, Nature, wildlife, wildlife garden
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Nature, Writing | 19 Comments

Welcome to our first post on Gardening with Chloe. Both Chloe and I are super excited to start the series with an inspirational gardener- Carole Brown from Ecosystem Gardening Carole is a Conservation Biologist and passionate about teaching people to manage their properties to benefit the environment,

09 Feb 2010

Discover the Magic of Gardening with Kids

Tags: backyard gardening, bees, birds, butterflies, carrots, Childrens Book Characters, chloe the gardener, connecting kids to nature, flower, flowers, gardening, gardening with kids, gardens, healthy eating, kids gardening, Nature, nature play, outdoors, plants, play, seeds, spring, spring flowers, sunflowers, vegetables, wildlife
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 6 Comments

Want to Connect Kids to Nature? – Grow a Garden With Spring peaking around the corner, I feel compelled to jump outside with the kids and get the garden ready for growing some yummy vegetables, fruits and colorful flowers. I am no expert so I have enlisted

13 Jan 2010

Connecting Kids to Nature-Let’s Go Outside

Tags: Art, Birding, birds, butterfly girls, children, childrens author, connecting kids to nature, Conservation, Dragonflies, dragonfly boys, eco, education, Environment, fairies, fun things to do outdoors, gree, kids, little humbugs, mother nature, Nature, nature art, nature education, nature warriors, outdoor fun, photography, play, playoutdoors, snow, snow angels, wild things, wildlife
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature, Writing | 5 Comments

Helping to address the disconnection between children and the natural world in my own small way. I am really excited to launch my new “Let’s Go Outside” webisodes – my small way of helping address the disconnection between children and the natural world. When children and nature

28 Dec 2009

Discover the Magic in the Forest

Tags: Art, exploring nature, Forest, forest fun, Nature, nature art, nature photography, photography, playoutdoors
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature | 14 Comments

Christmas magic may be over but Mother Natures Magic in the Forest is always waiting to be discovered. Let your children take the camera, you never know what you might see… Snow Falling… We discovered these magical snow people… Woman with child Man accompanying woman in shawl

21 Dec 2009

Recycled Crafts for Kids – Rocking Robins

Tags: backyard birds, bird watching, Birding, birds, Christmas Crafts, Cratfs, kids and birds, Nature, outdoorplay, Recycled Crafts, Robins
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Nature | 11 Comments

For me, Christmas wouldn’t be complete without a Robin Redbreast. When I was young-I loved to watch and listen to the Robins in the back garden. My mother wrote a song about the cheeky little bird which she sang to us every Christmas. We have been making

18 Dec 2009

Snow Fun-Painting Alternative Snowmen

Tags: alternative snowmen, creativity, family fun, Getting kids outside, kids aet, Nature, nature and kids, nature art, outdoor fun, playoutdoors, snow fun, snowmen
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Nature | 7 Comments

An Alternative Snowman A lonely tree stump is transformed into a Happy snowman…thanks to Samuel. Armed with an old squeezy bottle filled with food coloring-Samuel dashes outside again for more snow fun. Painting in the snow. We had never even thought about this fantastic outdoor activity until

13 Dec 2009

Recycled Art – Ice Fun with Nature

Tags: environmentally friendly, family fun, ice ornaments, kids, natural decorations, Nature, outdoor fun, playoutdoors, recycled art, recycled ornaments
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Nature, Writing | 12 Comments

We filled old sellotape rolls with water, placed nut shells and cones from Sam’s nature collection then left the recycled cylinders outside in the freezing temperatures and let Mother Nature do her Magic….. It was two of my wonderful nature loving twitter friends: @wildchild and @activekidsclub- that

20 Nov 2009

Inspired by The Wonders of Nature

Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature | 2 Comments

Take your child to work day Wed 4th Nov I was very fortunate to have my daughter help me in the studio a few weeks ago. Amongst other duties, Jasmine helped me on a conservation piece . She was looking through the photographs and spotted the Orcas.

09 Nov 2009

Alternative Easter Gifts

Tags: all natural, butterfly girls, children's gifts, eco friendly kids gifts, fairies, fairy beads, fairy gifts, fairy like creatures, fairy spray, fairy stocking stuffer, gemstones, green gifts, kids christmas gifts, kids green gifts
Written by Marghanita, Posted in Artists, Design, Environment, Family, Illustration, Nature | 2 Comments

The Little Humbug products were inspired by fun things I enjoy doing outdoors with my own children. Rock hunting, gardening, bird watching, arts & crafts, collecting fallen petals, to name but a few. My hope is that the children who receive these gifts are inspired to go

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