About Self Care Box The Self Care Box was a huge collaborative product. My input can be seen in the design work, drawings/illustrations, I wrote the recipe book and co wrote several of the other elements. The self care booklet wasvwritten by Join The Dots Solutions, and all made in partnership with CIYD and Missional […]
Creativity when you’re running low When you are running on low it is hard to do anything. The bed to the sofa was the furthest I would walk in three days. My brain could only compute the basics as all the energy was being piled into getting rid of a tummy bug. I was running
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Embracing Spring After an extended few months of dormancy I am finally about to begin embracing Spring. This year the winter feels to have dragged and dragged with the rain damping the mood of most days. Even me, who has encouraged us all to embrace the process of wintering has struggled recently and I feel
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Forever Queuing There are few places I wander in life that doesn’t involve standing in a queue. Although, I am told that as an English person I could be alone and still form an orderly queue of one! Over Easter the family and I took a short trip to Amsterdam, between the airport and various
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The Joy of Exercise There was a moment of joy in my exercising today. With my hands pressed against the hard, cold stone wall I sank back and took in the view that lay in front of me. Breathless after my run, I took one deep inhale after another, keen to slow myself down. I
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science On February 11th it is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day I never knew existed but once I did I was determined to create a make and bake for it. Enter the Fizzy Science Art! It is inspired by my love of
I’ve always found it hard to keep things simple. My computer contains my life and it also reflects my life because just like my computer my brain has too many tabs open! Every single tab relates to an on going project, often left up because I forget the bookmark function exists, and they also double
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Hibernation is fascinating Wintering is a new concept to me, yet its existence is something I’ve been yearning for since I was a young child. With fresh eyes to the world I was fascinated by the concept of hibernation, almost jealous of the animals and life that follows such a pattern. I wanted to be
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All began with Fireworks Come the 5th November you won’t find me setting off fireworks in my garden, nor will you find me wrapped up in some field watching a large scale display. Me and fireworks share a confused relationship. I don’t trust them, they probably don’t trust me and I’m not entirely sure I
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We had just jumped several feet off the edge of a waterfall into a plunge pool, the four of us in the group were happily chatting on a large rock further down the beck waiting for the instructor to jump in too and wondering what the next exciting leap was going to be. The water
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