Leaving Winter Behind – January and February Pages 2026 the remaining unshared pages from my January and February sketchbook We’re rapidly accelerating away from winter, so I’d better share the unshared pages from my sketchbook before it feels uncouth to remind us of bare branches and cold earth. Soon we will be BASKING in green […]
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Snowdrop Pages 2026 my snowdrop delight does not seem to be slowing down – here are my sketchbook pages from snowdrop season this year I feel like everything there is to be said about snowdrops has been said – the resilience! The hopefulness! The relief of renewal after a long, dark winter! So I shan’t
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Midwinter Pages from advent through to my birthday in the middle of January January is gathering pace, is she not? We’re over half-way; I’m enjoying the cold, blank energy. (Clean) slate grey skies, deep lungfuls of cold air, freezing drizzle clogging up my eyelashes. I think that with each passing year I am becoming a
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February 25 Journal: Puddles and Snowdrops February is all green and brown and white, moss, flood, lichen and snowdrop Where January was a goddess, flexing her power to delight and deprive, February was just a lot of damp. A really February-ish February. We dealt with round two of chicken pox for little Trix. She’s normally
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A Love Letter To Janaury I’m in love with glorious January! PART ONE Tuesday 21st January 2025 I love January! This has never happened before. January is the long slog, yeah? The Blue Monday, bleak, broken resolutions, everyone has flu month. Usually, I am in rough compliance with these societal tropes about January. But this
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November to Hogmanay Finishing up 2024 with a roundup of sketchbook pages from the final two months of the year. I was all set for my usual monthly journal post at the end of November, and then I got the flu, or something flu-ish, on the 29th. A long fever followed by the most vicious
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February 2024 Journal Imbolc, Leap Day, half-term, bird watching, signs of spring A February with an extra day. It feels like something exciting should happen on Leap Day. But how do you follow Pancake Day in excitement? Impossible. February has quite a few days of interest. We celebrated Imbolc for the first time – to
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January 2024 Journal how to be quiet I’ve been running my little business for over 12 years now. Without fail, the run up to Christmas is hectic. It begins with calendar launch in September and ends when the calendar sells out at the beginning of January. I love it, it is such a buzz. It
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February 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Here’s my sketchbook pages and notes from the (thankfully) shortest month of the year. I tend to think of February as a bit of a non-month, really. A funny little insert month between proper winter and proper spring. But it is only actually two days shorter than other months, so
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January 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Thank you for starting off 2023 with me! Here’s my sketchbook pages and notes from the first month of the year. On Hogmanay, I commented to Ross that if Trix knew all she was expected to achieve this coming year, she might be a little overwhelmed. Crawling, teeth, talking, walking,
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