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Entwined & Ember Book Launch! 🌿
This week I’ve been soft launching two books that I’ve been working on for six years. I crowdfunded these books last spring and have been working on this project since I was postpartum… that’s been six years. It feels like I’ve finally given birth to twins. Here’s a bit about the books. Scroll down for…
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Entwined
Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood weaving together stories from mothers in United States, Mexico, Canada, England, Qatar, and M’chigeeng First Nation. Every mother has their own creative ecosystem. By sharing our stories we hope to inspire you to entwine creativity and motherhood in your own way. Contributors include painters, writers, potters, visual…
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Entwined Blog Hop
Entwined weaves together stories of creativity and motherhood from mothers on the west coast of America, to Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Contributors include painters, writers, potters, visual artists, musicians, poets, and multipassionates. Every mother has their own creative ecosystem. By sharing our stories we hope to inspire you to entwine creativity and motherhood in…
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The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿
I’m so excited to (finally) open up preorders for Entwined & Ember an anthology and art journal for mums. This passion project has taken a lot of my energy this year along with 55 other mothers who submitted stories, prompts, and art. I’ve been working at on this book for almost five years. Here’s the…
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Brain Fog ☁️
I’m entering my 7th year of parenting. How did that happen? Within a year of giving birth I started making art to process my experience. That was the beginning of This is My Brain on Motherhood. Seven years later, I think I’ve fully integrated the identity of parent.* Which means I’d like to complete this…
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There’s some good in the world Mr. Frodo. ⛰️
Samwise: It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go…
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This Changed Everything
My neurodivergent experience includes time blindness, which is magnified when working on a creative project and reaching flow state. This has some benefits, but one downside is that I have no idea how much time I’m sinking into individual projects. After one of the most creative years of my life in 2023 somehow 2024 was…
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Festive Recipes & Free Books ✨
One last update before I shift into holiday hibernation. Socializing and changes in routine can take a lot of energy for an autistic. So we really prioritize gentle self regulation in December. A Correction for the Boundary Zine Last month I wrote about neurodivergent boundaries and shared a printable zine. I noticed that I accidentally…
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Resources for Creative Parents
I spent the first two years of parenthood reading everything I could about parenthood and creativity. I still couldn’t find the book I was looking for so I wrote my own – a massive manuscript that became two books and two art journals. Below you’ll find my research rabbits holes as well as my own…
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Ember
Ember is an art journal companion to the Entwined anthology. It presents a variety of creative prompts (writing, observation, ideating, dreaming, and making) to help parents kindle their creative sparks. There are two versions Ember for Parents & Ember for Mothers. Resources for Creative Parents I spent the first two years of parenthood reading everything…