Continued creative happiness.
Keep on creating, advent crafting delights, dare to waste time, inhabit your space with joy, starstruck baked goods...
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Happy Sunday, and happy 2024!
In case you missed it.
Fiber Friday: Crafting Awareness
Here are last week’s top recommendations.
Decorating Dissidence’s inspiring crafty links to explore.
My youngest son made a Semifreddo Mixed Berry Cake for Christmas.
The delights and struggles of a reading life.
In this week’s issue.
The meaning of home, keep on creating, a near instant sense of inner peace, and crafting delights.
Vital life advice, dare to waste time, inhabit your space with joy, the mind of Greta Gerwig, and delicious cinnamon bread.
Mysterious potato chips, travel Europe within the US, government departments can be funny, starstruck baked goods, and women’s histories.
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The secret of continued creative happiness.
on why she keeps writing (and drawing.) Her sketches are delightful and her storytelling is so engaging.What does ‘home’ mean to you?
Sabrina from
shares all the word home can mean. As my family have been traveling over these last years, ‘home’ is a shifting sense of place.Warning: a near instant sense of inner peace ahead.
Matt from
has a song that’ll send you to another realm.A crafting advent calendar.
shares the delights of crafting with an advent theme.What you probably didn’t know about the library.
for the 18 years she’s worked at libraries, she recounts 18 things she’s learned about them. And some fascinating facts they are! My eldest son, ever the library lover, didn’t know most of these.
How these simple rituals help you have a great year.
suggests some simple rituals for easing into 2024.If you enjoy journaling, note-taking by hand, she recommends starting with a new notebook for the new year. All the blank pages are ready for a fresh start!
My son gifted me a hand-decorated notebook for Christmas last year, so I’ll be using that for my daily journaling and gratitude diary.
10 more hand-selected recommendations for paid members below!
What she’s learned from life so far.
Life advice from a 44-year-old woman. I particularly loved the ones about how small details in your day matter and staying curious.
Not every single minute has to be planned.
A call to slow down and dare to waste time.
Inhabit your space like Catherine Newman does.
With joy, candor, and bursts of creativity and light. Joanna Goddard interviews the writer for a house tour, and a heartfelt discussion of writing and life.
Inside the mind of the great director.
An interview with the director and filmmaker Greta Gerwig. It’s a great insight into her creative process. I saw the Barbie movie late last year and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The messages contained within were thought-provoking.
The ‘Kenough’ scene still makes me laugh out loud!
A lovely baked good for every special occasion.
Celebrate the new year with a lovely cinnamon bread recipe.
Learn something new with these bite-sized ideas.
100 little intriguing ideas for a deeper understanding of the world.
I bet you never knew how these are made!
The fascinating hidden world of potato chip flavors from around the world.
The secret of European travel without leaving the US.
Beautiful places in the US that look like they’re European.
Staying strong in the face of something going wrong.
A book with a heartfelt, meticulously-researched look at resilience.
This is how they design the next bestseller.
Go behind the scenes with the design process for book covers.
Add a bit of cheeky humor to your feed.
Who says government departments can’t have a sense of humor?
In the mood for something delicious and stunning?
A gorgeous looking bread that’s great for special occasions year-round.
Perhaps it’s time for a new way of looking at this.
All that a website can and could be.
Little known corners of fascinating history.
A great look at forgotten histories through the eyes of women and dogs.
I’d love to hear what surprised and delighted you this week.
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Thank you for sharing my post! It looks like I’m in good company.
Such a great collection of reads and interesting things. Thank you for including me! I especially love the adorable hand decorated journal. What a precious gift that you can enjoy each day as you write 💛