I feel like this summer is running away with me. The children are talking all the time, all at once and it feels like there isn’t the time to think. We aren’t doing very much as the ‘pingdemic’ is terrifying me and we are counting down the days until we have a week away. Meanwhile,ContinueContinue reading “One thing at a time.. July / August Update”
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You are the only one – FREE digital print!
I still have a few of these A5 handlettered prints left over from the book launch (frame not included) so will send one out with any order of the book ORDERED FROM THE ETSY SHOP ONLY up until 00.00am GMT on Tuesday 28th May! After that they will be added to my Etsy shop. http://etsy.me/2P9XwybContinueContinue reading “You are the only one – FREE digital print!”
Circles by Elisabeth Pike: OUT NOW!
C O M I N G T O M O R R O W! Tomorrow’s the big day! I’ve just listed this baby on Etsy so you can place an order now and it will be shipped out tomorrow: Etsy listing is here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/681250504/circles-nurture-and-grow-your-creative?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1 Last blog post is now up as well- all about faithContinueContinue reading “Circles by Elisabeth Pike: OUT NOW!”
About me and why I wrote Circles..
My forthcoming book, Circles: Nurture and Grow your Creative Gift was born out of a collection of writings from a crazy time in my life when I had two very young children and a third on the way. I was longing to create but felt that all my creative energy was being sapped by parenthood.ContinueContinue reading “About me and why I wrote Circles..”
Why I write about motherhood
I just want to put it out there that I’m not a self-certified expert on parenting by any means. I run courses on writing motherhood because I write, I always have done; it’s how I process my feelings – my grief, my joys, my disappointments, and it’s how I can convey my wildly fluctuating feelingsContinueContinue reading “Why I write about motherhood”
NEW WORKSHOPS!Booking open now! And less than two weeks until the first workshop on Saturday 5th May. Nice and early with a coffee and pastry to wake you up, and over by 11 so you can enjoy the weekend with your families! Book your ticket at http://721471fc10b8.fikket.com/
Writing about Type 1
I am a writer and I have written, pondered and grieved Type 1 a lot over the years. I write to process my emotions, I write around a subject when I don’t quite know what it is that I want to say. But the truth is that type 1 invaded our lives so thoroughly whenContinueContinue reading “Writing about Type 1”
Space to Dream
A shortened version of this appeared in Third Way in April 2014: https://thirdway.hymnsam.co.uk/editions/april-2014/features/space-to-create.aspx It is rare to have the hush of an empty house all to myself. But right now all I can hear is the hum of the computer screen, the creak of a door being slammed outside, the footsteps of the cat coming inContinueContinue reading “Space to Dream”
Type One
A poem about my daughter’s diagnosis with type one diabetes. This poem is in my book There You Are, a collection of 34 hand lettered and illustrated poems about motherhood. You can find it here.
For When We Don’t Know What is Coming: an unexpected diagnosis
We had just moved to the wilds of Shropshire, with a two-week old baby and two pre-schoolers, and everything was new. My husband was beginning to concentrate on his music full-time, and the two eldest children had just started in a new preschool. There was time for the dust to settle. But I still hadContinueContinue reading “For When We Don’t Know What is Coming: an unexpected diagnosis”
Trembling Heart
A poem about the night that my daughter was diagnosed with Type 1, back in 2013 when she was 2 and a half. I held you to me on the bed and smelt your hair, felt your lightness,as your father bustled in the darkness for your favourite things.We had been to the doctors thatContinueContinue reading “Trembling Heart”
Afterwards, a work in progress…
And breathe… first day back to school for the kids which means I finally have some time! Here is the latest work in progress. To be included in a book of poems that should be ready by Autumn 🤞 🙏xx #handlettering #poems #instapoetry #livecreatively #parenting EDIT: You can find the finished poem in There YouContinueContinue reading “Afterwards, a work in progress…”
Love Poem: Poetry prints by Little Bird Editions
My children exhaust me and bring me to the end of myself but they make me who I am and they were the ones who taught me to love. I have recently launched a collection of prints which are my own hand-letterings of some of my poems about the early years, when everything is aContinueContinue reading “Love Poem: Poetry prints by Little Bird Editions”
Snow Day!
First appeared in The Guildford Dragon in Winter 2012.. Snow! What a great diversion from normal life for parents and for littlies. What was a dreary, never-ending January suddenly became a winter wonderland, a magical world for children. Everything was different for a little bit. As the snow fell on Friday, my husband rushed intoContinueContinue reading “Snow Day!”
A Fairytale Castle Party And A Collapsing Thomas Cake
This first appeared in The Guildford Dragon, back in 2012… It seems that every other person I know has a birthday in February. Not sure why, but it definitely seems to be party season. A few months back, a friend and I decided to have a joint party for our girls who were born threeContinueContinue reading “A Fairytale Castle Party And A Collapsing Thomas Cake”
On budgeting and how much it really costs to raise a child
Another old blog post. Apparently bumbos are out of favour now so shows how quickly this post dated! Written in Autumn 2012 I remember when I was younger, blissfully ignorant of the realities of having children and announcing at work that I was broody and couldn’t wait to start having babies. I was only aboutContinueContinue reading “On budgeting and how much it really costs to raise a child”
Mondays
This is a really old article that appeared in The Guildford Dragon. It warms my heart to remember how demanding my two were and how hard I had to work to fill a day with them! It must have been written in Autumn 2012 I think.. Today I had that Monday feeling. Mondays in GuildfordContinueContinue reading “Mondays”
Coming down to Earth at the National Trust
Again this is an old article that I have dug out today. This was written in Autumn 2012 I think… Today we drove for an hour and a half to meet up with friends from our home town (by home town, I mean the one that I and my husband grew up in, the townContinueContinue reading “Coming down to Earth at the National Trust”
#1
Wind wraps around me like a blanket. In a blustery playground my boy has fallen asleep. And there is space and time, of a sort, standing hands in pockets, brook rushing by behind me, I hear it’s eddies and ripples, see the winter light brimming, spilling over, winding through the trees. All alone like IContinueContinue reading “#1”
Enough is enough
here in the evening, emptied out. here I am, sitting on the carpet, the debris of the day strewn around me like a fox has been at a rubbish bag. the baby squirms and wriggles on the sofa; he is not yet settled. I have not yet washed up, had a cup of tea, hadContinueContinue reading “Enough is enough”
Happy
On a day where we thought it would rain incessantly, and it did not, we drove out to a garden centre and watched the electric blue fish dart around their tank and said ‘hello’ to Bobby the parrot, who having hopped down from his perch, was walking around, dragging his tail feathers, pecking people’s shoes. ContinueContinue reading “Happy”
Sam and me
Taken by my lovely friend Suzie Nolan: http://suzanne-nolan.blogspot.co.uk
11th May 2011
11th May 2011 And the night after the frustrations, there is a clarity, like the first bite of a lemon cake or a gin and tonic, slipped down the neck. There is space for the first time in a long time. I am hair-washed, sitting in a house clean and dusted, with the stillness ofContinueContinue reading “11th May 2011”
9th May 2010
There we were in the park, me and you, our two babies, this older couple, two kids, their grandchildren (I assumed), and the sun beating down on us. You were happy, Sam, as you ran about in the long grass, pointed at the bugs on the bin, laughed at me through the windows on theContinueContinue reading “9th May 2010”
The small things
19th Aug 2010 Here’s the idea: the small things, the insignificant, the unseen, the detail. This is what got me thinking: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is theContinueContinue reading “The small things”
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