Ink Sugar Spice – Lynn Clark

Eat Beautiful. Be Creative. Positive mental health.

Hi, I’m Lynn. Welcome to Ink Sugar Spice.

I’ve an all encompassing passion for making, writing about, and photographing beautiful food. I’d love to share this passion with you.

You will also find some mindfulness, craft and inspiration posts. I am a mental health first aider and a keen advocate of creativity being good for your mental wellbeing. I make, mend and create most things myself rather than buy: a modern interpretation of the ‘make do and mend’ way of life my parents had to grow up with and passed on.

I love to interact with people (I’m a bit chatty) so please leave me a comment or ask a question related to an article or recipe or contact me about my photography and recipe writing services.

Lynn Clark 💙

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Pleased to mention that I have been shortlisted for the third year running for the prestigious Pink Lady Food photography competition.

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I mentioned that I was working on an article about keeping a sketchbook and daily drawing and sketching, with a view to it helping you with your positive mental health, reducing stress etc... it's a bit later than I'd hoped (just after #mentalhealthawarenessweek) but here it is. A little zipped purse (it also has a flap pocket on the other side) I made out of scraps of coloured leather … I did make this a while ago but never posted. Also I was trying out folded paper as backgrounds, which works well I think but does take a lot of patience! Yes, more so for me than making a purse ☺️ Leafy (and slightly hippy!) sourdough, made with dulse seaweed and hempseeds. Went to the first life drawing class I’ve attended in at least 25 years this week. Absolutely loved it, definitely highly rusty - but that’s some of the point isn’t it? Practice and improve!! I also partly went because I felt I ought to start take my own advice: I’m always espousing that drawing helping stress and mindfulness. Particularly I went now because over the past couple of weeks I’ve been writing a new article for my blog about this very thing: how drawing can help positive mental health. This article includes some ideas to make getting into it easier (particularly if you’re new to daily sketching) and a few drawing exercises. I hope to finish writing this today or tomorrow for the final days of #mentalhealthawarenessweek Fight for your right to party (rings) 🎶 I have green house envy! See the difference between the two images: that's the chasm that's a stately home greenhouse versus a little tiny aluminium thing where I've made all the staging by ziptie-ing old wire fireguards together. Still, maybe I can scrape a few points for cheap ingenuity?!? Tarte aux fruits… a shortcrust base, with crème anglais and Dulce de Lèche, topped with strawberries, kiwi and pistachios and tiny sprigs of basil and mint. Union Jack loaf 🇬🇧 made with @marriagesflour Sorrel and ramson crisscross pasta. Spring pasta in a handful.

There’s a lot to discover…

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