Art Cards for the turning year. I’m sitting in my studio looking out at a bare tree and a dormant garden. Everything feels paused. The borders are stripped back, the ground is resting, and the shapes of things are suddenly clear without their leaves. It’s a view that feels honest at this time of year… Continue reading Midwinter: tending the quiet places
Art Cards for the Turning Year The first full moon of the year is often called the Wolf Moon. It arrives in the depth of winter, when nights are long and energy is low — a time when survival has always depended on instinct, cooperation, and shared strength. Historically, this was the point in the… Continue reading Wolf Moon — Endurance, Instinct, Community
Art Cards for the Turning Year – beginning before the year begins I wanted to begin this practice before the new year officially starts. Not with resolutions.Not with goals.But with a pause. New Year’s Eve has always felt like a threshold to me — a moment that belongs to neither the year that’s ending nor… Continue reading The First Card: Year Threshold
A slow, creative practice for marking the year as it unfolds (This is a guide, not a checklist. Cards can be skipped, lingered with, or returned to.) When I shared the beginnings of Art Cards for the Turning Year, I did so very deliberately before the year had even begun. Partly because I wanted to… Continue reading Art Cards for the Turning Year — The Year Map
– a creative practice for marking the year as it unfolds For years, I’ve tried to keep a bullet journal. I loved the idea of it — the neat calendars, the trackers, the promise of reflection — but in reality, I mostly just made the pages. I didn’t return to them, didn’t use them in… Continue reading Art Cards for the Turning Year
This evening I pulled together a very last-minute craft stall for our school fair using all sorts of random leftover stock I had tucked away. It wasn’t polished or planned – just gathered, displayed, and shared – and it ended up being such a lovely experience. It’s the first time I’ve done a craft stall… Continue reading A Little Festive Fair Moment
There’s something about Yule that invites us to exhale.As the full moon rises in the longest nights of the year, the world feels quieter—heavier with stillness—and suddenly the rush of December softens at the edges. The ancient world understood this instinctively: midwinter was a time to pause, to gather closer to the fire, to honour… Continue reading Yule Full Moon Reflection: Slowing Down, Looking Back, and Honouring the Turning of the Year
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