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A slow living blog filled with inspirational stories, interviews & resources to help you live a more sustainable and meaningful life.
How Life Is A Game Of Connecting The Dots
Vanessa Simpson is a photographer living in rural Somerset. Slowly building her photography business and looking back at the path that lead to where she finds herself today, she realises how the thread of her life’s encounters and events remind her of the game of connecting the dots.
Meet Carla From Naked Clay Ceramics
Carla is a ceramicist and creates her signature simple, minimalist style porcelain and stoneware pieces from her studio in Bedford. After a career in Environmental services, she went back to University to get her Art degree and started her business Naked Clay Ceramics.
A Spring Guide To Hygge
People often associate hygge with cosy blankets, candles and crackling fires in Autumn and Winter, but hygge is really about celebrating the beauty of all of the seasons. Bex Massey shares some tips how to experience hygge in Spring...
Meet Ness from Runaround Retro
Ness runs her brands Runaround Retro and Vanessa Rose Accessories from her rural farm in the Somerset countryside. Her vintage children’s and women’s accessories are inspired by the 1960’s, a period that depicts a great sense of family values and the simpler things in life to her.
Finding a life that belongs to you – Lynne Davies-Craine
Lynne is a coach and nature-lover, living in Oxfordshire. After working as a nurse in the NHS, and some time in the charity sector, she is now setting up her coaching practice: helping women who feel lost in their own lives to reconnect to themselves and the life they truly want.
Ecopsychology & reconnecting with the natural world – Ruth Allen
Ruth Allen is an outdoor and online counselling psychotherapist, professional development coach, and experienced consultant, trainer and facilitator. She specialises in outdoor practice, nature connection and working with mind and body…
Meet Georgina from Feather & Hay
Georgina is a weaver, living in the beautiful Scottish Highlands where she runs her small textile business Feather & Hay. Each of her hand-woven pieces tells its own story and is created to...
Island living – Ella Mclachlan
Ella Mclachlan is the founder of Phoenix & Providence, an Isles of Scilly based skincare and wellbeing company. The products are made with seaweed foraged by hand by Ella, and are designed to infuse a sense of calm and...
3 Ways To Elevate Tea And Coffee Moments At Home
We've all been spending more time at home over the last few months, and it's likely you will have spent some time rediscovering some of the smaller joys in life. And, one thing we can all appreciate is a lovely cup of tea or...
The importance of white space – Jen Carrington
Jen Carrington is a creative coach who helps big-hearted creatives make things happen in their creative life and business on their own terms, in their own way, and by their own rules. She is also a writer, and the co-host of...
