Reading This week I finished Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full by Gloria Furman. This was surprisingly good mainly because it was unexpected. I thought I knew what the book was going to be about...and to some extent I was spot on, but occasionally Furman said something which was not anticipated and brought big…
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Chitting and a Chatting
I am loving the whole blogging daily on angelicscalliwags. Taking a break and writing whatever I wanted on Seasons of Joy was wonderfully freeing. Instead of worrying about SEO and whether anybody was going to find me and read what I had to write, I could just simply write...for me. Writing is such an important…
Designing My Invoices {Small Business from Home}
Invoices were one thing I hadn't really thought of. Delivering my first order up to the local gift shop, the owner asked me how I wanted to be paid. Hmm. So I took to Canva and began designing my invoices. Of course, I could have just used a simple black and white simple design. But…
Art Journal # 7
My latest painting from my art journal:
Packaging My First Order {Small Business From Home}
Yesterday, I shared how I had designed my own vellum packaging and then found that my printer did not print vellum, the paper alternative I had chosen. Sigh. There is so much I don't know. I think that I've done the research but, alas, I find I know little. But I am nothing if not…
Designing my Own Packaging {Small Business Owner}
I've got a few 'small business' posts coming this week because my business is off the ground and I have had a few orders! This has made me consider how I want to package up these orders, the type of invoices I want to make and the type of business brand I want to develop.…
Reading, Watching and Listening for the Weekend
Reading I finished such a good book this week. So good, I could not put it down. I took it with me everywhere I went just in case I could squeeze in a couple of minutes of reading. The book? Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. From the back of the book (because I couldn't…
Ubaid Culture {Mesopotamia Unit Study}
The Ubaid culture is an immense prehistoric period of history spanning from about 6500BC to 3800BC and developed from the pottery neolithic era of the Natufians. There are three such cultures (Halaf, Samarra and Ubaid), Halaf being the oldest. The Ubaid's name came from Tell Ubaid which is a mound close to Ur in Southern…
Precious Moments
Welcome back to my precious moments post! My children, who are now adults, were very sad when I stopped writing our family memories down each week. Looking back, I'm sad I didn't too. The posts make me capture the many moments of beauty to be found in our day to day life. Following are a…
Secret Suffragette Review
Yesterday, I finished Secret Suffragette by Barbara Mitchelhill. The title caught my eye because my younger girls and I had done a hugely successful suffragette unit study whilst in the middle of a larger Edwardian Unit. The suffragettes captured our interest and we dug much deeper than I had first planned. Read More: Our suffragette…
Maintenance Work
Just a heads up that the people at WordPress may be doing some testing today on my site to try to figure out why none of my collage photos are showing up. I'm not really sure what this entails or whether it will change my site at all... As this is affecting the post I…
My Experience of an MRI Scan
So...the day after my appointment with the ENT consultant I received a phone call telling me I needed to be booked in for an urgent MRI scan, and how did tomorrow sound? I was a little discombobulated to say the least. I thought I'd be getting a non-urgent appointment through the post in a few…
Reading, Watching and Listening this Weekend
Listening I've been listening to an amazing podcast called Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner, free on Audibles. American journalist, Jo Nocera, travels to the UK to find out the answer to one of the most interesting cases of poisoning involving Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor from Hay-on-Wye in Wales. Armstrong was hanged in 1922 for…
My Sea-Life Notebooks
I thought I would show you my five sea life notebooks that I now have published on Amazon: To give an idea of size, here is one of the books next to its companion card: And a last one of one of the books. I shall leave the link to each of the books below,…
Reflection on my Healthy Lifestyle
I had a different post in mind today, but yesterday I had some light bulb moments that I wanted to journal about. I think I have journaled before about the extreme tiredness I have been experiencing since an infection I had in February. This, paired with the fact that my voice has felt tired and…