Earlier in the month I participated in an online poetry workshop run by Alice Tarbuck, whose book A Spell in the Wild I recommended in my last A Year of Reading Frugally post. It was titled “Waking Your Inner Witch: Spell-Poem Workshop” and it absolutely sparked joy for me. Spending an hour and a half … More This Sparks Joy! May 2021
When I decided to start this challenge, six months ago, one of the things that seemed obvious to me (and one of the main reasons I created it in the first place) was that my TBR pile would be smaller at the end of it than it was at the beginning. The logic was sound … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Five and Six
My birthday month feels as if it were several months rolled into one and also as if there was not enough time in it to do all that I needed to do. I spent the very start of the month fighting with the ivy that had snuck down the side of my garden and was … More That Was The Month That Was: April 2021
April is my favourite month of the year and not just because it is my birthday month. It’s because this is the month when spring is properly sprung and the mix of flowers and the greenness of the new budding leaves is lush enough to drown in, should you be so inclined to do so. … More A Year in the Woods: April 2021
This is going to be a very short update as most of the month has been spent working on a project I can’t share yet! The half fingered gloves arrived with their intended recipient a week after my last craft post and both they and the person who commissioned them are thrilled, so I’m very … More Kizzia Crafts: April 2021
If I was the sort of person who rated my months (and apparently I am) I’d give this one a solid 4* review for the following reasons: 1. Spring has properly sprung, as evidenced in my A Year in the Woods post, and I feel far more like myself than I have for a long … More That was the month that was: March 2021
This the month when I start to feel human again after the long grey of winter. The life in the soil is bubbling up everywhere, pushing at my feet, opening me up in much the same way it unfurls the petals of newly opening wildflowers. The air is redolent with the early pollen of the … More A Year in the Woods: March 2021
I have been wanting to get into digital art for quite a while but having made some very unsatifactory things with either my finger on a tablet or a cursor on a screen I’d shelved the attempts until I could get my hands on a tablet and pen. Three guesses who now has such a … More Kizzia Crafts: March 2021
Today is Spring Equinox; one of the balance points of the year where neither day nor night hold sway. Ahead there is more sunlight than darkness, new growth and warmth. May we all find some light in ourselves today, to lift our moods and illuminate our paths.
After everything that has happened over the last week I found myself struggling to make a post about happy things. So much so that the first draft of this post was titled “This Does Not Spark Joy!” and discussed Sarah Everard’s murder and the experiences of so many women, myself included, who have been on … More This Sparks Joy! Monthly Musings for March 2021
