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19/10/2026

Life has been a lot lately and no, stickers won't fix it (I've checked).

But sometimes you need something small and colourful to look at while you figure out how to carry the bigger things.

So today, we're appreciating stickers.

The tiny joys. The silly things. A reminder that the little corners of life are still lovely, even when other parts are hard.

Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be here emotionally supporting the stationery industry.

My mother died this week.Since then, I've learned three things:1. Some people will make your grief about their grief.2. ...
18/10/2026

My mother died this week.

Since then, I've learned three things:

1. Some people will make your grief about their grief.
2. There is apparently no sentence so inappropriate that someone won't confidently say it to a bereaved person.
3. Somewhere in the corporate universe, a computer has decided my dead mother would like to rate her hospital experience.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Would recommend the afterlife. Needs improvement on follow-up communications.

I'm being a little flippant. It's been a profound, surreal few days and I'm still trying to comprehend that my mom is gone.

But death does seem to make people forget that the bereaved are actual human beings who shouldn't also have to manage everyone else's emotional experience.

You don't need a perfect speech. You don't need to find a silver lining. You don't need to tell us about the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Sometimes you can just say, "I'm so sorry," and let the sentence do its job.

I've written this week's essay about the bizarre things people say and do around death, the unexpected comedy of it all and the woman I'm still discovering through the stories people are sharing about her.

I don't know how to make that funny. So I won't.

When Bubblegumfringe | Journaling + Stationery put out a call for ambassadors via social media, my first instinct was to...
15/10/2026

When Bubblegumfringe | Journaling + Stationery put out a call for ambassadors via social media, my first instinct was to quietly admire the opportunity from a safe distance.

My second was to write Suné a letter by hand.

I've been keeping diaries since I was 10. I still have my sticker albums from the '90s, boxes of old letters and a lifelong affection for all things paper (especially Japanese stationery).

These days, that obsession has found its way into my work through Write On and Lucky Packet Post, where I help people tell their stories and create little parcels of snail mail to make someone feel remembered.

But here's the thing: putting myself forward for opportunities like this doesn't come naturally to me. I'm much more comfortable behind a pen than in the spotlight.

Still, I believe introverts have just as much influence as influencers. We recommend the things we love, tell our friends about the things that delight us and find our own quieter ways of connecting.

In a world increasingly filled with AI, algorithms and content for content's sake, I think there's something rather wonderful about a handwritten letter, a well-loved journal and a sticker you've been saving since 1997.

So here's me, stepping a little outside my comfort zone and putting my hand up for something I would genuinely love to be part of.

Suné, I'd be delighted to be a Bubblegumfringe | Journaling + Stationery ambassador. 💌

Wish me luck. ✏️

📮 Things I meant to tell you (and then got distracted by some envelopes).A highlight of this year was that a few months ...
12/10/2026

📮 Things I meant to tell you (and then got distracted by some envelopes).

A highlight of this year was that a few months ago, Lucky Packet Post was featured in Denise’s New Favourite Things for 2026 over on Family Treasures by Denise Loris 💌

At the time, I shared Denise’s post in my stories and carried on decorating envelopes and packing happy mail but then life happened and I never stopped to tell you about the feature properly!

Lucky Packet Post is built around the little things I love: handwritten letters, nostalgic paper treasures, thoughtful details and the joy of discovering something that feels like it was made just for you.

I’ve always loved finding and supporting people, projects and products that make ordinary life feel a little more magical. The things with a story behind them. The things made with care. The things that remind us that the world is still full of people doing lovely, interesting things.

So, a belated thank you to Denise for including Lucky Packet Post in her favourites for 2026. It was such a lovely surprise to see my little corner of the postbox universe included.

If you missed it, you can still read the feature here including all the other treasures that were featured:

https://familytreasures.co.za/denises-new-favourite-things-2026-a-year-of-healing-happiness-honey/

And a huge congratulations to the winner Dhesh Chetty! I had such fun making your Lucky Packet according to your preferences. More on that later...

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have some stationery hunting to justify before November's theme is revealed.

When did everything become a side hustle?We can't just enjoy a hobby anymore. Apparently, we need to get good at it, buy...
11/10/2026

When did everything become a side hustle?

We can't just enjoy a hobby anymore. Apparently, we need to get good at it, buy all the equipment, document the process and figure out how to monetise it.

What happened to doing things badly, enthusiastically and purely because they're fun?

To reading a book nobody asked us to review. Buying the notebook without needing to fill it. Learning something we'll probably never use. Having an interest that never becomes a personality trait or a business idea.

Not everything needs to go somewhere.

Some things are allowed to be completely, gloriously pointless.

So, here's your permission slip to enjoy something without making it productive.

What's something you love doing simply because you love doing it?

My latest weekly Substack essay is out now - free for you to read along with reflective journalling prompts. Link as always in my bio or the images provided.

Things I would like to keep analogue:Letters.Books.Photographs.Notebooks.Postcards.Birthday cards.Little notes tucked in...
09/10/2026

Things I would like to keep analogue:

Letters.

Books.

Photographs.

Notebooks.

Postcards.

Birthday cards.

Little notes tucked into things.

The physical evidence that someone sat down and spent time on something.

I don't hate technology. I just miss when we didn't have to experience and document everything through a glowing vibrating rectangle.

Sometimes I want something I can hold and doesn't need charging.

Something that doesn't disappear beneath 47 newer things every 5 minutes.

A little more analogue. A little less pressure to prove we were there. 💌

This was not on the schedule.Neither was the disappointment or changing my mind or spending an entire afternoon doing so...
04/10/2026

This was not on the schedule.

Neither was the disappointment or changing my mind or spending an entire afternoon doing something that wasn't on the beautifully colour-coded list I made last Sunday.

I am very good at making plans for my future self.

She writes every morning. She reads books.
She goes for walks. She has adventures.
She sees her friends. She goes on artist dates.

Then actual life arrives and sometimes the plan doesn't happen.

Sometimes you discover that what you thought you wanted isn't what you want anymore.

And I've been wondering whether we are too quick to treat those things as failures.

A plan isn't a promise. It's a possibility and an unfinished week isn't evidence that we're falling behind.

We're just living.

This week's essay: This Was Not On the Schedule. Available for free with journal prompts on Substack - link as always in my bio.

Writers take notes.Not always in notebooks.Sometimes in the Notes app or on the back of receipts or in our heads while b...
02/10/2026

Writers take notes.

Not always in notebooks.

Sometimes in the Notes app or on the back of receipts or in our heads while brushing our teeth, desperately hoping we'll still remember it tomorrow.

We collect fragments.

A phrase.
A face.
A tiny act of kindness.
A strange little detail.
Something beautiful.
Something heartbreaking.
Something completely ordinary that, for some reason, makes us stop.

We don't always know what we're collecting it for.

That's one of the best things about being a writer: the world is constantly leaving little scraps of itself in your pockets.

You just have to remember to look and take note. ✏️📒


September was a long difficult month for South Africa. There was intense rage, grief, fear, mourning and moments of doub...
30/09/2026

September was a long difficult month for South Africa. There was intense rage, grief, fear, mourning and moments of doubt. There were times when I felt like I was holding everything together with just some washi tape.

But there was also so much good 🇿🇦

📚The beautiful people I met at Open Book Festival
📮 Customers who trusted me to send a little joy to someone they love.
✍️ Detailed long emails from readers after my Sunday essays on Substack.
☕️ Unexpected conversations and small moments of beauty in nature that made me smile.

When life gets complicated and busy, we can get distracted online, that we forget to look up off our phones every once in a while. 🌻

September reminded me that a difficult month can still hold a lot of goodness. Both things can be true. 🌸

If you're new here, welcome! 👋 Whether you found me through Lucky Packet Post, my writing or a random Instagram rabbit hole, there's a place for you here.

No performance required. Just stories, stationery, snail mail and a little more wonder in the everyday. 💌

Here's to noticing the good, even when life feels a lmessy. ❤️

How is it Sunday already?I mean this as a genuine administrative question.I've worked seven days, delivered Lucky Packet...
27/09/2026

How is it Sunday already?

I mean this as a genuine administrative question.

I've worked seven days, delivered Lucky Packets, seen narrative coaching clients, answered some emails, ignored others, made lists, lost lists, found lists, added more things to lists and somehow it's Sunday again.

This is the strange tension of being a creative entrepreneur in the final quarter of the year.

Part of me is thinking: GO. GO. GO. Before everyone disappears for December and says, “Let's circle back in 2027.”

The other part of me would quite like to lie horizontally and not be responsible for anything for approximately three business days.

And yet, some of the work is the thing that actually fuels me.

Handing someone a Lucky Packet. Hearing what they loved. Watching something shift for a narrative coaching client. Having a conversation that reminds me why I built this strange little business in the first place.

The problem isn't necessarily the work. It's the 47 things hanging off the work.

The emails. The phone calls. The admin. The lists. The messages. The things that reproduce overnight.

So I'm thinking about the difference between work that drains you and work that gives something back.

And whether the final quarter needs to be maximised at all.

The goal isn't to win 2026. It's to actually live the remaining part of it.

New essay: How Is It Sunday Already? with Free reflective journalling prompts out now.

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