Growing Strong Girls: a post for International Women's Day
Around the time my daughter was one year old, I started learning calligraphy - drawing and painting quotes that I liked. I found myself most drawn to phrases that I could pin up in my daughter’s room that would surround her with positive messages and can-do statements.
I wanted to fill my daughter's world with positivity because of how differently people (without necessarily meaning to) treated my kids...
The benefits of calligraphy
Six years ago, towards the end of my maternity leave with my second child, I thought I was losing my mind. The idea of returning to my copywriting job where I *actually* had to string a sentence together filled me with absolute horror.
This is about how learning the art of calligraphy helped me relax, unwind and discover mindfulness during a difficult period of my life.
Colour Me Happy: positive colouring books for happy minds
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite thing was that I’d created. (This was hard because I'm rarely 100% happy with anything I make and will pick holes in my work until the cows come home.) After some thought, I realised that my favourite creation isn’t a card or print - and not even really to do with art at all. It’s a colouring book I made in 2019 to help improve children's mental health. It came about after I realised that my son and I had our best chats when we were colouring in stuff together –...
A Queue with a view
Not just any old queue but The Queue: a five-mile-long line of people waiting to see the Queen lying in state.
This is the story of our 14-hour, five-mile extravaganza to pay our respects to a very special lady.
The Greenpeace Big Plastic Count
