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Paper treasure
Paper treasure
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Personal geographies: cities, maps and memories
Personal geographies: cities, maps and memories
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The difference between calligraphy and handwriting
The difference between calligraphy and handwriting
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Paper, cloth and thread
Paper, cloth and thread
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A simple journaling format
A simple journaling format
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Savouring the season
Savouring the season
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Why beautiful stationery matters
Why beautiful stationery matters
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Fresh starts, clean slates, drafts and new notebooks
Fresh starts, clean slates, drafts and new notebooks
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How to get visual inspiration from a quote
How to get visual inspiration from a quote
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Note-taking: a book and an exhibition
Note-taking: a book and an exhibition
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Why I love maps
Why I love maps
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A fairy tale on my mantelpiece
A fairy tale on my mantelpiece
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I didn’t mean to disappear. … I closed my online shop with promises that I wasn’t going anywhere. I would still send newsletters to my mailing list, I would still share photographs, I would still write on Substack. Most importantly
May was… tortuous, with little to show for it. June finds me… pensive, tired, hopeful - tentatively. How about you?
May so far has mostly been about unhelpful overthinking, constant distraction and obsessive knitting ☁️
Tiny jigsaw puzzle and cat, in the midst of a 6-day work week (amongst other things)
Waiting for my friend this afternoon at the Ashmolean (for the In Bloom exhibition), I noticed how the projected shadow of the artwork above echoed the pattern of my tights. Also: glamming it up, just a little, in gold shoes for the museum. Also: thi
I’m yet to sew anything, and my second non-rectangular knitting project was not entirely successful, but I have a knitting and sewing trolley now.
Annual Oxford lilac spam (but still the scent reminds me of Fårö)
First attempt at gluten-free cardamom buns. I can’t decide if they’re a little underbaked and could have done with a lower oven temperature, or if there’s another reason for how chewy they are on the inside. But they’re a much
When I worked in London, many years ago, the journey to my Spitalfields office took up to three hours. But as I fished the key out of my satchel to open the red-painted, hand-lettered door to the Georgian home of the Society for the Protection of Anc
I had no idea this scarf pattern was so well-known until I shared a snap of my knitting in progress in my stories. So, if you’re wondering, yes, it is the Sophie scarf! I’d been looking for a first non-rectangular project, finally challen