Sylvia's Noodling Nook
Sylvia's Noodling Nook
Sylvia
Hello! I'm Sylvia, a blogger, doodler, poet, avid reader and chronic website tinkerer. Welcome to my noodling nook, my little corner of the indieweb where I share things that I noodle around with.
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For the past couple of years I've seen the concept several times: punch needling. I didn't think much of it, I preferred to crochet and knit, and I didn't need another hobby.Then I saw a cute coaster kit the other day, and I had to get...
My balance is still fried since abdominal surgery. I know I need the challenge, but I need that challenge in a quiet solo setting, not in the middle of a youtube class. I need to work towards doing the downward dog again. I do that by...
Dear Creative Soul,Do you know what keeps you from creating what calls out to you?Is it a lack of talent?No, you can create all you can dream of, and more.Is it lack of training?No, you can create all that you can think of.Is it lack of...
This is the start of a new series on my blog that I tentatively call "hitting the digital brakes". If I come up with a better title, I shall change this header and the hashtag This is a picture I took on the road home today, with a Kodak...
"Wake up, woman!"The earth dropped away in a whirl of colour and I tumbled through a blanket of clouds. Only darkness remained.I jolted up and stared into my dark bedroom, “Stupid dream, waking me up like this!”A soft voice said,...
Dear Creative Soul, There is always going to be someone who does something you don’t get. There is always going to be someone who doesn’t treat you with respect. There is always going to be someone who says something that make you feel...
the cover for heal your creative joy I've created a new journal, and you can download it for free here!This is the blurb for it: When you face health challenges, your creativity probably falls by the wayside, and reconnecting with your...
Today, my husband and I went to the zoo in Amsterdam, and I took my trusty Campsnap Pro with me. I love this little camera and its perfectly imperfect pictures so much. This is a selection of the pictures I took today. Most of them were...
Some of the things I most love doing now, I loved doing as a child. Here is a list of five of them, what are yours?1. Writing poetryI don’t know why I started. I also don’t have those poems anymore, thanks to the awkward almost adult...
This is a list I wrote years ago when I was feeling decidedly unplayful, and needed something to help me focus on the good things in my life. It's remained one of my favourite tools in my arsenal to my focus on a life led by joy. It was...
In my memory it was always warm on my special radio days, and the back garden always bathed in sunlight. With my very white skin that would mean I would get a tremendous sunburn very fast. I had way too much experience with that.In July,...
🗓️ 6 to 12 Julyfavourite thing this weekWaiting on a bench to be picked up and staring up into the leaves of a large tree, mesmerised with the sunlight playing with the leaves.writing I have finished edits on a mini journalling workshop,...
Wrote this years ago for a prompt where you had to write a vivid memory, describing all i sensed. —I walk at the flood line at a beach I have visited a lot as a child, near the Hague. The sun is bright red in a sunset sky, I lift up my...
I have a small notepad (a Rhodia Dotpad no 12) that I use for... well, everything. It's a mishmash of notes, lists, reminders, a personal budget tracker and anything else that I feel the need to jot down. The contents vary constantly, I...
While looking for something else, I found this poem I wrote once as an encouragement to myself. I needed it today, maybe you do too.When you are thinking about thingsThat make you feel sad and lostGet out of your head, loveWhen you think...