Easy Calligraphy Place Name Cards
This summer my father got married at the stunning Villa Petroio estate in Tuscany. His wife-to-be loved the birth announcement cards I had painted…
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Traveling with a baby
The strangest thing happened when the baby was just two weeks old. Both my grandmother and my grandfather, who hadn’t seen or spoken to…
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Baby-friendly London
Desperate to get out of the house but don’t want to walk aimlessly around the shops, and not in the mood to try one…
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Fresco Painting Wall Murals Inspired By Livia’s Garden
You may have already stumbled across some rather striking wall murals on my Instagram. They are all painted by my talented mum (@irenevonck), who…
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Baby friendly weekend in Cornwall
Six weeks after the birth, it had been a newborn haze at home and I was desperate for a change of scenery. We found…
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DIY Birth Announcement Cards
For Huxley’s birth announcement cards I wanted to do something a little special and couldn’t find a design I liked enough online. He was…
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24 hours in Chicago
On our way to the CMAFest in Nashville, our connecting flight from Chicago got cancelled, and we found ourselves in the Windy City with…
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Rome Sweet Rome
Ah, Rome. The classical architecture, the romantic ruins, the cobbled streets, the cappuccinos, that familiar heat, the tall ‘pini Romani’, the Aperol Spritzes and…
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Why Nashville And The CMA Fest Should Be Top Of Everyone’s Bucket List
Known as ‘Music City’, and the country music capital of the world, Nashville should be top of the bucket list for any country music…
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Australia part 3 – Two Weeks on a cattle farm in the Australian Outback
After a couple of weeks exploring Melbourne, Sydney, the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast, we went inland past Toowoomba to stay at a family-run…
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