On my bedside table right now:
Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, latest edition to arrive in the mail JOY!
Notebook magazine, that may be last month's edition... this months is in a bag that I carry with me {leave in the car} and delve into when I get a few spare moments. Basically a portable studio of sorts :)
After the Party by Lisa Jewell, I've just finished this, it was a light and easy read I quite enjoyed. I hadn't read the first one, but I don't think it mattered. A good book.
You Sexy Mother by Jodie Hedley-Ward - AWESOME BOOK I can not rave about enough... this book is so inspiring and encouraging & just exactly what I required at the time I got it a few weeks ago. I think I read it in record time. I was in a bit of a FUNK, a "been-at-home-with-the-kidlets-for-almost-three-years-and-not-quite-sure-what-to-do-with-myself" kinda funk. It was not a good space to be in. It was TOUGH. And I knew logically... it didn't need to be tough, and in fact, could be (and had been) quite wonderful most days. I just needed this book to get me back to THERE, to wonderful... BACK to ME really! I totally recommend it.
You Sexy Mother - The Journal - also by Jodie Hedley-Ward... to accompany the book. I am slowly working through this and creating my own journal, visual diary on my feelings, thoughts, ideas... I need to do a whole other post on this little project and journey!
The Healthy Skin Diet by Karen Fischer... I can not recommend this book enough. I am not into DIETS as such, I have been on diets... but they are not DIETS per-se... they are actually just "eating right programs". This book is amazing & I have learnt so much about my body, it's workings... and how to eliminate health issues SO EASILY by reading this book (oh, and following the program!). I also got it for Mikaela and her excema. If you are keen to improve the diet of you and your family... if you are interested in nutrition... this is the book for you. My dear friend Lusi is the one to get me thinking MUCH more about nutrition for my family >> thank you Lusi.
I am quite literally devouring this book, it comes with me most everywhere I go and each day I am adding more to my diet... apple cider vinegar, chlorophyl... in just a few days I feel amazing. Energised and alert... much healthier, and no longer sluggish. I know it will get much harder, but I am encouraged by the immediate health benefits, to keep going with this new regime, as best I can. For me and for my family.
StoryCatcher by Christine Baldwin... slowly reading this one. I'll admit that I have not been able (yet) to devote as much time as I'd like to this book, or to capturing the story of our family. I think I do okay with my 365 layouts, however, I also know there is much more soul spilling, heart sharing I would like to share with my children by way of story. I know there is more to be unravelled than simply our day-to-day happenings and special events, and this will take some digging and prodding... and time. I want to capture that FEELING I have when I am breast feeding my babe... when I watch my two young boys hug each other with love and enthusiasm. The way I feel about my daughter getting older and some of the amazing conversations and connections we are sharing these days. Oh, there are so many stories I want to capture for them. I will. I do. The best I can.
So... What about you? What books have you recently been inspired by... totally WOWED by??
Oh, and if you are interested in getting Heathy Skin or You Sexy Mother, Exile have 50% off sales on FRIDAY's... YEP >>>> that's TODAY!
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