Dotty Delightful

05/12/2025

Bring a little magic into your home this Christmas with this personalised winter cottage print, lovingly hand-painted in a cosy, whimsical style.

Each print features a snowy gingerbread-style cottage, a glowing winter sky, a curled-up fox, twinkling stars, a little robin on the sign, and a Christmas tree lit with soft fairy lights.

The sign beside the cottage is fully customisable, simply add your family name, couple name, or even a special word (e.g. “Grandma’s House”, “The Burrow”, “Home Sweet Home”).

This is the perfect Christmas gift for:
• Families
• New homeowners
• Grandparents
• People who love cosy winter decor
• Secret Santa
• Those who adore foxes, woodland charm, and whimsical art

WHAT YOU RECEIVE
• A high-quality print of the original artwork
• Personalised with your chosen name on the sign
• Frame not included (to keep postage simple and affordable)

HOW TO ORDER
Click here:
https://dottydelightful.etsy.com/.../personalised...
Add your print to basket,
Add the name you want on the sign in the “personalisation” box
Place your order

I can also take direct orders and deliver in Lancaster by hand (or you can collect) Juts message me.

26/11/2025

Creating something a little bit magical today🎄
Any guesses

24/11/2025

If you’re just starting out on your art journey, this video is for you. I’m sharing gentle, honest advice for beginner artists, things I wish someone had told me when I was starting out.

We’ll talk about comparison, why practice is important, trusting your own process, and how to copy ethically, I also share tips on developing your style.

Whether you’re drawing in your sketchbook, painting, or just exploring what kind of artist you want to be, this is your reminder that you’re not behind, and you don’t need to have it all figured out.

If you’re just starting out on your art journey, this video is for you. I’m sharing gentle, honest advice for beginner artists, things I wish someone had tol...

13/11/2025

Would you love someone to sort your social media content for you before the end of the year?

I’m opening a small number of Done For You content days for businesses in the North West.

If you’ve been meaning to update your photos, get some professional reels filmed, or finally show your business in a way that feels real and engaging, this is for you.

For the rest of 2025, you can book a full content afternoon for £300.

The price will increase in January.

What you get:
• I come to your business in the North West
• Personalised photographs (behind the scenes, products, workspace, team shots, etc)
• Short-form video clips for Reels/TikToks/Shorts
• Mini interview or “story” clips if you want them
• A bank of content you can use for weeks or months
• Edited photographs and edited reels included
• Stress-free, friendly direction (I know being on camera can feel awkward, I make it easy)

If you’re tired of guessing what to post or never having anything ready, this gives you a fresh library of high-quality content tailored to your business.

If you’d like one of the £300 sessions before the price goes up, just send me a message and I’ll send over the dates I have left.
Happy to answer any questions.

Photograph - I spent a lovely day filming yesterday with Massage therapist and massage school facilitator Nicola from Exhale, Lancaster

19/09/2025

I’ve been feeling a shift lately when it comes to Facebook and social media in general. While it’s been such a useful place to connect, I also see how often it can get heavy, full of arguments, noise, and division. That’s not the space I want to hold or spend my energy in.

Over 10 years, spending 3 hours a day on social media would total more than 15 months of your life, gone, just like that!

I’d much rather pour into places that feel calmer, kinder, and more intentional spaces where we can share creativity, inspiration, and encouragement without all the extra manipulated division.

That’s why I’ll be stepping back from posting here, and instead sharing more over on my two Patreon communities. And doing more in person gatherings too. Both of the Patreon sites have free options, so you don’t need to pay to stay connected.

✨ Dotty Delightful, a cosy corner for art, nature, allotment life, simple living, and a slower rhythm.
✨ Her Way Home, a space for women drawn to walking with Jesus, encouragement, prayer, and gentle faith-filled community.

Each has its own community section where you can chat, connect, and share too. I’d love for you to join me in whichever feels like home for you.

I will also be carrying on posting videos on YouTube often, so if you love watching videos pop over there.

I’m so grateful for the connections we’ve had here, and I’d really love to keep walking alongside you in a space that feels more nourishing.

If you’d like to keep in touch, just click through to join the community (and remember, the free options are always there).
www.patreon.com/dotty_delightful
www.patreon.com/herwayhome

I am also keeping messenger, so I can be contacted on there.
And lastly, sign up to my newsletter, I send out a weekly one on Friday's, sharing things that have lit me up and that you might enjoy too. Sign up via my website www.dottydelightful.com
(scroll down to the bottom on the home page)

Let’s carry on building something beautiful, just in a quieter, kinder corner of the world.

17/09/2025

In 2028 we start a new cycle, a cycle of abundance, light, and a more conscious way of being, right now and until then we are in the throes of releasing, letting go, changes, huge companies will close, disasters will happen, financial establishments will collapse and the governments will try anything and everything to keep control.
This time can feel hard if you buy into the doom and gloom of what’s being offered, and pushed, so as I say many many times, switch off the news, don’t listen to fear, know these stories that are told are lies, smoke screens, distractions to keep you ill or submissive, when we follow our own path, when we delight in the small things, when we work on ourselves to understand ourselves better, we can’t be fed lies and accept them, we can see through the illusion and we can’t be controlled.

I feel excited and blessed to be alive in this time, because there is a new world emerging, one filled with love, hope and possibility, a better world for all.

It is really important you look after yourself now, connect to nature as much as possible, meditate, journal, choose well what you put in your body, what you allow to enter your ears and eyes and what you put on your body. And if it feels right for you, connect to God, it’s in these times of unsteadiness that an anchor is helpful.

If you don’t know what I mean about 2028, look up the forth turning.

16/09/2025

Another free zoom call this Thursday evening at 8pm UK time.

Spiritual and called to Jesus? Confused and wondering what’s going on?

Come and join us.

15/09/2025

In a world where we’re losing hope
And life has us on the ropes
Misunderstandings
Hate running rampant
Every man out for his own

It seems like we’ve lost our way
And the distance grows every day
Thought that we had it
Caught in the madness
Oh ain’t it tragic

Official Music Video for "Heal Our Land / Come & Move" featuring Joe L Barnes & Maryanne J. George & Mav City Gospel Choir.“Heal Our Land / Come & Move” is w...

13/09/2025

It’s not our anniversary I’m just sharing about love

We’ve been together for 19 years, how have we lasted and how are we more in love than ever?

Mainly it’s effective communication and respect for each other, actively choosing each other daily and putting the other persons needs in the spotlight, asking “do you need help”, or wondering “what can I do to make their day better”

Never calling each other names, or saying hurtful things, knowing that you are wound up and walking away and working on yourself to see why you feel this way, what in the past has come up to trigger this in me, taking time to really ponder about it. And then if needs be talking to your partner about how you feel, not blaming and shaming.

Also being really grateful for the relationship and love, noticing daily how amazing and special it is to have each other. Knowing what your love language is and appreciating the effort no matter how small.

On a practical level, Ta**ra has made us fall in love with each other all over again, giving each other wonderful words of affirmation each morning before Tom goes to work and making time to really connect before being separated for the day.

I know we are very blessed to have this and have each other because I know it’s a struggle for many couples, when one person wants to ‘do the work’ and the other doesn’t. That can be really hard, effective communication can really help, and if it doesn’t work between you, maybe a counselling session could help.

I was reading the bible today, 1 Corinthians 13.4 it says “Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Isn’t that lovely. It really spoke to me.

12/09/2025

It’s a mast year for many nut-bearing trees, especially the mighty oak. A mast year is when trees produce an unusually heavy crop of nuts or seeds, far more than usual. Some say it’s nature’s way of ensuring that enough survive the deer, boar, and squirrels to grow into new trees. In folklore, a mast year was often seen as a gift of plenty, a sign that the land itself was offering up abundance. This year the branches are heavy with acorns and the ground is thick with them.

It’s a mast year for many nut-bearing trees, especially the mighty oak. A mast year is when trees produce an unusually heavy crop of nuts or seeds, far more than usual. Some say it’s nature’s way of ensuring that enough survive the deer, boar, and squirrels to grow into new trees. In folklore, a mast year was often seen as a gift of plenty, a sign that the land itself was offering up abundance. This year the branches are heavy with acorns and the ground is thick with them.

As we forage for wood, we gather them up and scatter them in thickets and clearings, hoping they’ll take root in the new year. Tossing them into bramble patches works especially well, as it gives them a better chance of escaping hungry deer and other wildlife. Over the years, we’ve seen great success with this simple act of seed-sowing.

We do the same at home too. Acorns in pots are just as easy. There’s no trick to it, no secret method. Think of how they fall naturally, rolling and landing on their sides beneath the tree. That’s all you need to copy.

Some are green, some are brown, but now is the time to plant them. A handful of acorns today could mean a grove of oaks tomorrow. Give it a try 🙂
-Woodlarking