More on that little cottage in Cahir, Ireland comes now but if you didn’t read my original scribbles, here it is here; https://www.studiokreat.com/post/art-spotlight-building-the-house-that-remembered When I first saw this photograph of the little cottage in Cahir where my three-times-great-grandmother Mary Martha and her husband John began their family life, I felt saddened by its derelict condition. It was difficult to see a place that had once sheltered my ancestors so wea

There is something quietly sacred about making a home that no longer stands as it once did. And so this little cottage is not an exercise in miniature making. It is my way of sitting beside a woman whose hands shaped ordinary days that history never thought to record. The cottage where Mary Martha , John, and their children lived in Cahir before moving to the Cashel Army barracks now sits derelict beneath a weathered roof. Moss has claimed the walls and that roof as the premi

“Hello, Today I stepped back into the podcast room and as I sipped tea and chatted I realised there are some rooms I return to again and again.”

“Aspire to live quietly…” That line alone feels like an inheritance, doesn’t it? Not a loud legacy, not one written in grand gestures, but one stitched, worked, and lived through hands that kept going. Through days that looked ordinary from the outside, yet carried immense weight, perseverance, and devotion within them. It makes sense that it feels like it’s been delivered to me. Because in many ways, it has. https://youtu.be/RY9lyFyFB_A?si=qSlKwYZkrsy0h6bD Somewhere along th