I Smell Snow in Spring

COVID-19 has made the world a funny place, hasn't it? A lot of us are cooped up at home, pottering around, trying to juggle work life in our homes with homeschooling our kids, or managing our to-do lists with our ever increasing pit of anxiety and worry in the background. Life is unstable. In multiple…

Loneliness and How to Overcome It

Moving to a new place is hard. We've all been there at some point in our lives, finding ourselves in a new place with new people and new cultures to discover and explore. We find ourselves perhaps feeling like an outsider, trying hard to adapt and fit in, trying to find friends or even just…

Mid-Knitting Snacks | Lemon and Lime Polenta Cake

Do you have a tradition involving cakes? In my full time job, cake is everywhere! It's what we bring when it's our birthday, when we're leaving our job, whenever there's an occasion really. The one I like best is when we've just delivered an important piece of work and as a team, we organise a…

Sewing | An Adventure in Sewing in French

Out of all the crafts that I like, sewing is the one I find the hardest. Sewing is something that does not come naturally to me. It is not easy. For me, it is stressful and complicated and for someone who has a tendancy of ditching anything that I'm not good at or don't find…

Off-Cuts #3

Time for an Off-Cuts update! It's February, we're all down in the deep of winter (unless you're in the southern hemisphere and in that case - lucky you!) trying to stop the post-holiday blues from setting in and we need something to look forward to (even though Spring is so close we can start to…

Travel | The Yurt Retreat, Dorset, UK

Do you feel like life gets busier once we hit the autumn/winter months? I do. I'm not sure if it's because "la rentrée" comes along and everyone restarts school and work following their summer holidays or if it's the fact that everyone's social calendars start to fill up exponentially in the lead up to Christmas…