Hello, I’m really happy you’re here.
This is a quiet corner where I explore what it means to live with more heart and less hurry - through stillness, creativity, and connection. I’m someone learning, right alongside you, how to pause long enough to listen for what truly matters. Pull up a chair. There’s space for you here.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been gently feathering our nests.
Noticing stillness, tending what holds us, and watching creativity begin to take shape.
Below are the creative sparks I gathered this past week.
Something Handmade
My home is full of handmade items, so it was a challenge to choose. I landed on a sweet bowl I made from fabric, then stiffened with Mod Podge. It holds a variety of things - right now, some old slides waiting to be turned into photos.
I’d love to see something you’ve made with your own hands?
Color You Love
I bet you’ll figure out in one guess what my answer is. I LOVE teal, and its neighbour - robin egg blue. My sister made me the wall quilt for my 50th birthday. I absolutely love it, and its ocean touches, reminding me of the many years I called Vancouver Island home.
What’s a color you love?
Work in Progress
Counted cross-stitch used to be my favorite form of meditation. I spent hours and hours stitching during a very difficult time in my life. This one is almost complete. I’m going to finish it - it really is beautiful.
Do you have any projects to complete? This is your time to get one out of your closet, or that box, or drawer, and finish it along with me.
Tools of Making
I’ve been working on something special - a birthday card.
My mom passed away in late 2024, just four months before her 100th birthday. In a few weeks, one of her few remaining friends will turn 100, and I’ll be there to celebrate with her.
What makes this card especially meaningful is that it carries pieces of my mother within it. The blue wool background came from one of her favorite blazers. The floral trim was made from a cloth napkin that once lined her makeup basket. The intertwined hearts are a small symbol of the love and friendship they shared over so many years.
The flower at the center is one of the birthday girl’s favorites. I made it last summer by pounding pansies onto fabric, and I love that it found its way into this piece.
And then there are the tools of making scattered across the table - scissors, pins, thread, needle, rotary cutter, ruler - the ordinary things that help turn memory into something I can hold in my hands.
You might gather your own tools - whatever you have nearby - and let your hands create something simple. Not to make something perfect, just something that holds a bit of meaning.
This is what I love about creative work. Sometimes it becomes more than making. Sometimes it becomes remembering. Sometimes it becomes a way of carrying love forward.
Something Becoming
Tomorrow, I’m hosting a small friend gathering. We’ll be creating Easter decor. What could be better than conversation, coffee, cupcakes, and crafts?
Are you making something special for Easter this year? Can you guess what we’re making?
A Creative Mess
I’m notorious for not reorganizing my creative spaces after I’ve completed a project. A friend used to say to me when we painted together, “Clean your paintbrush!” She’d always find it sitting in water, waiting to be cleaned.
It’s no different with embroidery and my slow-stitch projects, as witnessed by this creative mess - a pile of half-used lengths of embroidery floss.
Are you like this, too? Surely it’s not only me!
What I’m noticing now is a quiet shift.
What we’ve been tending inside
begins to open outward.
Toward light, others, and the small signs of spring.
This Week’s Six Squares
• A Shared Table
• Two Things Together
• An Heirloom
• An Open Door
• A Bloom
• A Sign of Spring
This week, we turn our attention to connection and the ways it appears in our everyday lives.
Pause with whatever draws you in this week.
You might take a photo, simply notice, write a line in your journal, sit quietly with the prompt, or, if you’re playing along on the bingo card, grab your dabber and mark the square.
You can download your bingo card here.
As this month draws to a close, take a quiet moment with your card.
Notice what you’ve marked.
Notice what you’ve simply held.
There was never a right way to fill these squares, only an invitation to see what was already here.
And perhaps, in small and quiet ways, you did.
If you feel moved, I’d be grateful if you like this post with a ❤️, share a thought in the comments, buy me a coffee, or pass it along to someone who might enjoy a pause. Each small gesture helps this quiet space reach others who may need it.
This post was a delight! Thank you. I love to paint with acrylics or watercolours. My most recent fun has been watercolour bookmarks.
My art teacher was very strict about how to treat our brushes, so I am a stickler for cleaning and drying them but my tubes of paint might stay on the counter for months after! Lol. I am blessed to have a creative space in my home that allows for the mess of the creative middle. Lol
The cross stitch is gorgeous.