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Zelda, Simplicity Parenting and searching for the perfect family wiki
Updated May 18th 2023 from my home in Galway, Ireland 🕹️Digging into The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which came out this month – it being timed with my maternity leave is quite the sweet gift! 💾 Testing out Craft. We’ve been looking for a family wiki of sorts; a place to track everything from
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Something new: a monthly newsletter for mother makers, dreamers and doers
A few months back, I wrote a blog post about motherhood and creativity that seemed to resonate with a lot of mamas in my life. It was heartening to hear that I wasn’t alone, and, the more I dug, the more I realised that this is a problem that has plagued mothers for generations. One
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On chasing your curiosity, motherhood and creativity
You know that expression, about how if you haven’t seen a friend for a few days you’re bursting with news but if you haven’t seen them for months you’ve nothing to tell them? This blog feels a little like that. I was chatting to Ben recently about how much I miss blogging, miss this little
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Delightful distractions #1: How to make homemade natural scented candles
Starting a new mini series sharing some fun things to do, read and watch this winter, kicking off with this DIY candle how-to, first published in our DIY series for Irish Country Magazine. First things first: I am not buying that this is the ideal time to be hyper productive or creative. Things are, once again, strange
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An obsession with trucks and tractors and trains and buses that baffles and charms us in equal measure. A love of Bananaphone, of Down by the Bay, and, perhaps more surprisingly, of Ellie Goulding’s Anything Could Happen and The Flaming Lips’ The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song. He hasn’t met a puddle he doesn’t like to splash in, a dog
The personal blog of lifestyle photographer and writer Nathalie Marquez Courtney