While we’re all spending much more time inside, it feels like the right time to write a little something reflecting on my time living and working in a house share as a tiny hermit.  Just before social distancing came into full force, I moved house. I waved goodbye to my home of three and a… View Post

I didn’t start this year with many resolutions or goals. But I did make an active decision to turn my recent attempts to try to learn new crafting skills into an annual tradition. Over the past little while, I’ve tried to teach my hands to do something new every year whether that’s an intro to… View Post

In past years I’ve created and collated illustrated quotes for International Women’s Day. But this year, for IWD 2020, I wanted to take the opportunity to really consider the history of the day, how it came about and what it has meant through the years. So, I’ve put together an illustrated timeline of how this… View Post

Over the past few years of writing for this blog I’ve shared a number of posts about the tools I use. It’s something I like to revisit semi regularly to see how what I’m using has changed and what has endured. In previous posts I’ve separated out the physical and digital tools I use, but… View Post

Do you ever see or do something small and have the instant realisation “this is a metaphor for …”? I had one of those lightbulb moments of self-awareness while I was away in Cornwall last year. I was on a walk and I’d intended to follow a certain coastal route which took me around the… View Post