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6 Skillshare Workshops for Keen Christmas Crafters
DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 1st November 2023

6 Skillshare Workshops for Keen Christmas Crafters

There's something magical about filling your home with your own crafted creations. Building a stash of lovingly made objects which can be kept and re-used year on year. Using existing skills or learning new ones, just brings with it a sense of achievement and sentimentality.

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I'm Jayne

A word-y, blanket-loving, hot drink-guzzling, Wordle-playing, creative who has written a book or two*.

*(five, we're on book five.)

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Everything Else ➤ 17th January 2025

Here’s How To ‘Bionic Read’ On Amazon Kindle

My Kindle is one of my favourite and most-used material possessions. Where I go, my Kindle will surely follow. I love that I can load it up with books aplenty and never be without a...

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DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 19th November 2024

Birthday Pottery Class: I made a Clay Ceiling Pendant

As I get older, the things I want to do to celebrate my birthday are getting more like a refined children’s birthday party and I not only love this for myself but for those who...

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Writing ➤ 7th October 2024

What It’s Like To Write Under A Pen Name

My sixth book (I can't believe it!) is making its way into the wilds next year, and you won't know it's been written by me. You see, I wrote this book under a pen name because it was a writing commission and a slight departure from my other titles.

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Writing ➤ 13th April 2023

Never Run Out of Ideas: 5 Simple Strategies for Consistent Blog Content

Keeping a blog's editorial calendar padded out with content that's relevant, fresh, interesting, helpful, and engaging is a continual work in progress. Here are 5 really simple tried and tested ways to come up with enough ideas to fill an editorial calendar with content we can be proud of.

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Everything Else ➤ 8th November 2023

How to Get Unstuck: Some Ideas To Help

Life is truly riotous. It's not a clĂ­che when they say it's a rollercoaster; full of ups and downs. Just as we appreciate spring so much because it comes after a stark and chilly winter, without life's obstacles, we wouldn't appreciate life's great times so much, they'd be without contrast. That's not to say that the downs aren't difficult, demanding and draining. Because, let's face it, sometimes they're so tricky that we can get awfully stuck in them.

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Everything Else ➤ 26th March 2024

The Reason Why ‘Thinking Positive’ Isn’t Always Easy

The negative stuff tends to shine like a beacon, roar like a lion and refuse to retreat. Positive stuff does happen, and we actively look for it, but it always feels outnumbered by the rough stuff, which starts to make us feel that we're doing something wrong, that we're broken, that we're really unlucky. Or all of the above.

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Everything Else ➤ 14th June 2024

The Highlights: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

The Creative Act: A Way of Being is a book that's packed to the rafters with philosophical, thought-provoking and inspiring reflections, written in a non-linear and personable way. You feel as though you're sitting in a studio with Rick as he's sharing these personal, anecdotal and, oftentimes, profound, insights.

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Writing ➤ 19th April 2024

Do Ideas Come To You In The Shower? Here’s Why

This 'ideas in the shower' phenomenon is so well-known and experienced that you can even buy waterproof shower notepads! Those of us who have experienced it will know the sheer desperation of holding the idea in your mind's eye while you scutter around naked, still soggy, trying to find something that'll let you capture it before it disappears again.

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DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 6th December 2024

My ‘With A Little Something-Something’ Christmas Cranberry Sauce

This cranberry sauce recipe of mine has stood the test of time. Born out of a Christmas where we made hampers as gifts and had some vodka and Cointreau lying about. As I was making...

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Everything Else ➤ 4th December 2023

My 2023 Word Of The Year Was JOY

I'm happy to confirm that choosing a word and consciously circling back to it does in fact work! Turns out, that tuning into where you want to be or who you want to be and consistently using it as a 'North Star' is nothing short of wonderful.

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