Hello!
I have been thinking about Tiny Pockets of Joy since the beginning of this year and I couldn’t quite work out where it should live. My online world feels a bit scattered and this year I am determined to work hard to make it all make a bit more sense…at least to me!
In ten weeks time I will have finished my Psychology degree. It’s taken 6 years of study over a 7 year period of time. I started with young children and now have big teenagers. I started it living in London and am finishing it living in Somerset. I started it thinking I wanted to be a therapist. In the middle I had too many ideas for PhDs (I did almost finish a PhD 20 years ago…but then all my babies arrived!) and now I’m very nearly finishing I have a million ideas and am trying to work out where to begin.
So, Tiny Pockets of Joy are even more important to me than ever. They help me to lean into my creativity, to enjoy nature, to give my home love and give my neurocomplex brain plenty of pops of healthy dopamine!
Each month (for now!) I’m going to share three of them here with you. Enjoy.
Daily stamps from packaging and magazines. You might have seen this on Instagram. I was intrigued enough to buy myself a stamp maker and now I’m hooked. I make one most days but when life gets too busy, I don’t worry because I can so easily catch up. It is so very satisfying and my family love seeing what I find next, so there’s joy in the creating and the sharing. I’m going to do it all year long….and I expect for many years to come.
Wearing Red. For some reason I’ve avoided red for many years. You won’t find it in my home decor and until this year in my wardrobe either. However, I fell in love with a top that has a pink and red combination, and realised that I actually really suit red! So I bought a couple of red t-shirts in the January sales and a cute little red triangle scarf. and it brings me so much joy to wear this colour. I’ll have to take some pictures of me in red when it next stops raining to share this joy with you! Here is the red/pink combination that started it all off for me.
I popped into Liberty on a recent trip to London and fell in love with these balloons! I didn’t have long in the store as my teenagers were waiting for me in a cafe, so this really was a little pocket of joy in the middle of a busy day.
Wishing you a beautiful end to this month. xo
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