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Greetings Cards with Postage Stamps

Greetings Cards with Postage Stamps

24 March 20209 September 2021Categories: life, small businessLeave a comment on Greetings Cards with Postage Stamps

Getting a little something in the post has taken on an extra significance for many people at this time. Yes, so many of us have e-mail, but there’s always something special about receiving something physical from a loved-one.

Rediscovering my Fountain Pens

7 April 201725 July 2018Categories: lifeTags: journalling, pens, stationery, writing

A recent thread on Twitter caused me the sudden and urgent desire to dig out my fountain pens. I suddenly remembered how much I used to enjoy writing – not just what I was writing, but how, the physical process and the mechanics of the pens. Writing is still an essential daily part of my sanity,Read more ⟶

Where to start…?

29 January 201729 January 2017Categories: lifeTags: environment, intolerance, sexism

I always knew the world wasn’t perfect, there was much still to fight for, but I didn’t think we would actually start going backwards towards more intolerance, more inequality, less acceptance of scientific fact.

Donation Advent Calendar

1 December 201625 January 2019Categories: lifeTags: Advent, Christmas, food bank

We’re doing something extra every day after opening our Advent calendar window this year. We’re putting an item of food into a box for our local food bank, and then at Christmas we’ll take the whole box along to our local food bank in Horsham to donate it.

The crochet continues

25 June 201626 June 2020Categories: lifeTags: crochet key fobs, readymadeLeave a comment on The crochet continues

It’s been a momentous week, that’s left me feeling the need for familiar, cozy things. So I’m leaving my more demanding design work aside this afternoon and settling down to some simple crochet.

Letter Writing

6 February 201625 July 2018Categories: lifeTags: journalling, stationery

I often write in a journal – I wouldn’t call it ‘journalling’ as I don’t use it for reflecting on the day, really, but it does keep me sane at critical points to lay out my thoughts or to make lists. Quite often, I use it to give myself a little pep talk, and thisRead more ⟶

First of May

1 May 201425 July 2018Categories: crochet, life, small businessTags: crochet pattern, free pattern, lily of the valley, may, spring

Hello lovely month of May! (I think May is my second favourite month, after September, but who’s counting). The month comes with two powerful scent memories for me, from two sides of my life. First is the powerfully evocative scent of may blossom (hawthorn) and cow parsley together in the sunshine.

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