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Weird sh*t my toddler has done, but in haiku form 🩷
10/06/2026

Weird sh*t my toddler has done, but in haiku form 🩷

I've been a busier than usual bee recently. I had a bit of an idea and the ADHD in me has gone ⚡super hyperfocus⚡ on it....
08/06/2026

I've been a busier than usual bee recently. I had a bit of an idea and the ADHD in me has gone ⚡super hyperfocus⚡ on it. So much so that I've spent the last few weeks working away on it and not even considered picking up a paintbrush 🙃

It's a book for mothers who feel overwhelmed, overstimulated and completely full. It began as a little idea for a worksheet or a pamphlet or something small for myself, but it all went a bit wild once I started writing it down.

Writing it has made me realise how much of it was already hiding in my paintings from the last couple of years - the colours, the chaos, the joy, the exhaustion and the trying-to-hold-everything-together manic energy.

Do you ever find yourself creating the same thing over and over in different ways before you realise what you're actually trying to say? I think I've finally found some of the words I was trying to say through my art🙏📚

A little bit of chaos and a whole load of joy - the perfect way to describe motherhood, am I right!? ✨💕Painted this lil ...
29/05/2026

A little bit of chaos and a whole load of joy - the perfect way to describe motherhood, am I right!? ✨💕

Painted this lil beauty once it was finally quiet enough in my house to have any sort of coherent thought (a rarity with a 3 year old zooming about all over the place for 12 hours) - on the evening of a particularly lovely day spent hanging out with the crazy little pickle 🥒😺

Enjoying the vivid colour palette of this one - a bit of a change from the usual colours I use but I reckon they perfectly capture the chaos ⚡

Not every painting starts with a plan - some, like this one, begin with a feeling that I don’t have words for yet 🤷‍♀️ g...
27/05/2026

Not every painting starts with a plan - some, like this one, begin with a feeling that I don’t have words for yet 🤷‍♀️ gotta just see where it takes me!

I have so many notes on my phone of ludicrous things Kit has said or done, I figured I could post them here so that othe...
26/05/2026

I have so many notes on my phone of ludicrous things Kit has said or done, I figured I could post them here so that other mums don't feel so alone in having weird little kids like mine 🙃 at least his insane, beautiful energy is an amazing creative inspiration!

When you became a mum and had to deal with all the new responsibilities of motherhood, how much of yourself did you have...
18/05/2026

When you became a mum and had to deal with all the new responsibilities of motherhood, how much of yourself did you have to let go?

What stuff did you put aside because you no longer had time for it or the energy to do it or you felt like it wasn't "important enough" to spend time on?

My baby arrived 6 weeks early and it hit me HARD. There was so much going on in "real life" that my creative pursuits and anything else that seemed frivolous were immediately discarded while I got on with the relentlessness of the newborn stage.

I knew it wouldn't be forever - I figured just long enough to survive those early months in the trenches - and that I'd just be able to go back to it again without any issues, right?? But it took me 18 months, which was way longer than I expected, and it felt different this time.

My art comes from a different place now, because I feel like a different person. Not better or worse necessarily, just different.

I can't be the only one who feels like this, so tell me - what part of yourself did you 'lose' when you became a parent?





Rediscovering yourself in motherhood means learning how to hear yourself again from beneath all the noise of demands, ex...
13/05/2026

Rediscovering yourself in motherhood means learning how to hear yourself again from beneath all the noise of demands, expectations, guilt and exhaustion.

It's not an easy feat, but you'll get there in your own time. Slowly and gently, at your own pace. Maybe it will just be fragments at first, but your voice is still in there somewhere waiting for you to be ready to find it again 🌿🌸





Motherhood can make you feel like you’re constantly behind on everything.🧹 Behind on the housework.💌 Behind on replying ...
12/05/2026

Motherhood can make you feel like you’re constantly behind on everything.

🧹 Behind on the housework.
💌 Behind on replying to messages.
💼 Behind on work.
🏋️‍♀️ Behind on who you thought you would be by now.

But maybe life isn’t supposed to all happen at the same speed? Perhaps the slower times are actually the more meaningful ones 🤷‍♀️🌸

And maybe if I slowed down a little and tried not to worry about being "behind" on everything, I could pause for long enough to take it all in, enjoy the ordinary moments, and stop feeling so damn guilty about where I "should" be in life.

Anyone else feel that way??





Maybe becoming someone new after motherhood is the whole point.Maybe it's not a failure, but instead it's a special kind...
11/05/2026

Maybe becoming someone new after motherhood is the whole point.

Maybe it's not a failure, but instead it's a special kind of evolution of self? 🤯

Pregnancy was cut short and birth was unexpectedly early, so it was impossible not to just throw myself into this whole motherhood thing and I just kind of Got On With It without thinking too hard.

But it wasn't easy and there was always, just quietly stewing in the background, a little panicked voice that kept saying things like, "but what if you can’t find your way back to who you used to be before you were a mum? What will you do then? Who even are you any more?"

I felt like my entire identity was lost when I became a mother, and so this amazing new journey was marred by a kind of grief. But could it be that we aren't meant to stay exactly the same after something as monumental as growing (and then being responsible for) a tiny human?

Maybe the goal shouldn't be “getting back to yourself” - maybe the goal should be meeting the new version of yourself with a little more curiosity, a little more love and a whole lot more respect 🌺💪💕





Tiny joys counted this morning:🌞 sunlight streaming into the studio🎨 the smell of new paint ✨ the sound of my little boy...
10/05/2026

Tiny joys counted this morning:

🌞 sunlight streaming into the studio
🎨 the smell of new paint
✨ the sound of my little boy giggling with his daddy
☕ a cup of tea that's not been left to get cold (plus bonus tea rainbow!)

Utter bliss 🌈





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