
Offline Is the New Luxury
I hope you've had a good couple of weeks? I've had the best time. I decided to completely switch off. Yep. I unplugged.
I hope you've had a good couple of weeks? I've had the best time. I decided to completely switch off. Yep. I unplugged.
"Do you ever go down the rabbit hole? That place where you just keep on keeping on? Digging deeper, doing more, and thinking I'm going nowhere?
I hope you've had a good week and are now looking forward to a well earned rest this weekend.
I had a wonderful Christmas break, and I hope yours was good too? I made a conscious decision to allow myself to be bored!
I should have named this blog post - All Glory comes from daring to stop!!
Finding your creative spirit isn’t always easy. I thought in order to be creative I needed to make art.
That wonderful feeling when the world shows you a beautiful sunrise, or a shooting star, or maybe something magical.
I often need a dose of encouragement, just a quick reminder that the day is mine and I decide.
After my particleboard writing, I was all fired up to write on anything, paper was so passé.
Just taking some time out from the hustle and bustle of social media and letting my mind wander to other things and now gently musing on the words of the Bard.
I am off on a little trip at the beginning of May. Going to Palermo in Sicily to celebrate a wedding anniversary.
It is not easy to accept yourself as you are, but there is a certain beauty that shines when you are comfortable in your skin.
I would like you to do something for me. I want you to print off this week's image and then put it somewhere that you see every morning.
I was talking to a friend and colleague yesterday. We are both self-employed and so our meetings often include at least some “water cooler talk”.
I was complaining (as you do) about some person who kept asking me for “the secret”.
Whilst wandering about a local Auction and Antiques Fair, I stumbled across four chairs, rather unloved and sulking at the back of the room.
This particular inspirational quote “life begins each morning” really spoke to me...
I hope you've all had a lovely Easter break and have eaten all the chocolate eggs.
It must be Honesty Day today! I have noticed some posts on social media that have been open, honest and real.
The world has just celebrated Random Acts of Kindness week. What a great cause.
You know what, if you wait till you’re ready, untill everything is perfect, until all your ducks are in a row, you achieve very little.
I have a merry band of people I work with on some pretty cool collaborations as we head towards Christmas.
You know those people – the ones who don’t judge you.
The ones who let you just be who you are.
I think sometimes we get so hung about having the perfect life, what I think is now termed the Facebook Life (where we purport to be having a wonderful time with a fabulous partner and perfect children, in the most amazing house, with the most amazing job)
Hand-lettering is so popular these days, and creating your own can make for a lovely and unique presence on your blog or social media.
I love nonsense rhymes, and no one does it better than Edward Lear. This is the first verse of Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow.
In a just over a week it will be Mother's Day here in the UK. I'm a mum, like I guess many of you reading this are.
These words are very dear to my heart. You may not know this, but besides being a calligraphy I also work as a psychotherapist.
When I started out learning calligraphy, it would take me hours to produce something! Even then I still thought it was pretty average. And don't even get me started on the the amount of paper I went through!
I always thought I was tough, robust enough to take the knocks, but I realise that I am sensitive and vulnerable.
This blog post lands on my son’s birthday. He will be 28 this year. How I remember that day.
It all started about two years ago. I was home alone for a couple of weeks, whilst my husband Kevin and son Charles were away on a project in the Scilly Isles.
Since I began writing this blog, and that’s not very long, I have become increasingly fascinated by social media...
A little while ago a returning client (how lovely) asked me to design a mug for her based on her favourite radio...