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Home & Family
Blog posts and book extracts for creatives balancing home and family demands.
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Domestic Goddess In Training – Apron
Cotton twill apron with pockets
Available to buy on cafepress.com
You Are A Star – Thank You card
12.7 cm x 17.8 cm Thank You Card Available to buy on zazzle.com Hi! I'm Danielle. Instagram Twitter Pinterest Say a gold star thank you with this simple and elegant thank you card design. Gorgeous gratitude. You may also like......
read moreA little / great BIG Thank You card
12.7 cm x 17.8 cm Thank You Card Available to buy on zazzle.com Hi! I'm Danielle. Instagram Twitter Pinterest Sometimes a little thank you just isn't enough... Design inspired by old school exercise books and vintage typewriters. I love having a stack of...
read moreReduce worry and overwhelm; have a Scarlett O’Hara Moment…
Flashback to 2010... Today's post is inspired by an idea from my early blogging days - when my focus was how to stay serene (or at last sane) if you were an undomestic goddess with a home to keep. It's a tip from my first blog, Make Peace With Housework: The...
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Getting creative with life’s dramas
Today I have a little story for you - how I got creative and turned a frustrating mini-drama into a very happy ending... Creativity: a tool for life Now, as you may know, I am obsessed with the creative process - how to find the time, inspiration and energy...
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The Power of Whim and Fancy : Creativity Lessons from Life
How to harness the creative power of whim and fancy – because there’s less need for discipline and will power when you feel naturally inspired to do a task.
read moreWishing you…
Wishing you a lovely Christmas + a fabulous New Year. Don't forget the merry!...
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It’s only Christmas.
It's Christmas. Again. Do you remember when you were little, and it used to feel like an absolute age before Christmas came round again? Now, though, the years tend to fly by a little quicker. Christmas seems to reappear ever faster. But then, it is a yearly event...
read moreBook extract: Dust, vacuum…. create?
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. " ~ Virginia Woolf The results of housework are all too fleeting. You spend your time performing boring tasks and before long, they need doing again. There’s not much scope...
read moreUp. The antidote to down.
RePost from my first blog: Make Peace with Housework - for any creatives with a house to keep... • • • With apologies to Shakespeare: Housework is neither good nor bad, but feeling makes it so. When housework blues are a problem, the source of our angst is not the...
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When procrastination is good
Taking a long-term view helps us to see that sometimes procrastination is good and it can make sense to designate to the (quieter) future years?
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Or Life Lessons From My Garden. After a few weeks of admiring the fruitful bounty of my plum tree, I decided that today was harvest time. (Much to the dismay of the slugs who have been gorging themselves silly with the dropping fruit...). So, armed with my...
read moreLife & Death, Love & Loss; Lessons from a friend.
"You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone." ~ Joni Mitchell Warning: This post may seem a little over-emotional. Unless you have ever loved and lost a pet. My cat, Mojo, died this week. My quirky, handsome, wonky-eared, wild-whiskered, crazy and curious...
read moreHave you ever thought about modeling…?
As an eternal Life Troubleshooter, I am on a constant mission to improve things. So I like to learn from people who have mastered whatever I am trying to achieve. I regularly consult experts in subjects ranging from health, business, relationships and, of course, the...
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Success is messy
How to enjoy more success on the home front if you’re an Undomestic Creative. (Like me.)
read more(Domestic) Life Lessons from Downton Abbey
Sadly, we once again have to come to terms with the end of another stunning series of the fabulous Downton Abbey. (Did anyone expect what happened to Sybil?) So, as we eagerly await the Christmas special, I thought I'd share the gems of domestic wisdom that I've...
read moreOh, to be happy at home…
"To be happy at home is the result of all ambition." Samuel Johnson (Extract from Housework Blues - A Survival Guide) [pinit] Throughout this book, I've tried to convince you of the many valid and compelling reasons to tackle your housework - how taking care of...
read moreThe dark side of kindness
Kindness, charity, generosity - all virtues. All good things to aim for, in a bid to be a valuable and worthy (and likeable) member of the human race. But is it possible to overdo it? Can we give too much? However much we may resist it, the female of the species is...
read moreHousework? Give me strength.
I recently took the Strengthsfinder test. (I'm planning a little reinvention.... watch this space!) I don't know if you've heard of Strengthsfinder but if you're at all interested in discovering why you are the way you are and why you do the things you do, I highy...
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Celebrate: A habit for life…not just for Christmas.
• • • Tis the season, once again. Christmas. Whether you celebrate the religious feast, or the culinary feast - or both (like me) - this time of year is dedicated to all things merry and bright. It's a time for focussing on the joyful, turning our attention to the...
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