Blog | lydianiziblian

Apr 20
1 min

Lovely things

Let's look at a favourite thing as often as humanly possible. I don't need to go on about it, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ...

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Lydia Niziblian

Apr 19
1 min

Music. Non-stop.

I'm strangely not listening to as much music as normal at the moment, probably because as a creature of habit, most of my music listening...

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Lydia Niziblian

Apr 18
1 min

All the alphabet beasts!

Over the last 26 days, I posted unreliable facts (most of them are true, just not all of them!). Here they are, for your delectation, in ...

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Lydia Niziblian

Feb 5
5 min

Terrifying creatures from the deep

We've always enjoyed the museum in Cardiff, particularly the Natural History collection. We've been so often, the kids know it inside ou...

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Lydia Niziblian

Jan 31
2 min

Mindfulness, and why I can't write about jewellery

I would love to write more, but find it almost impossible to write about work, by which I mean my jewellery. I have been thinking long a...

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Lydia Niziblian

Jan 10
2 min

A New Year already?

It's a bit late, but Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is gentle with you! I spent the Christmas holidays unwell. Cue tiny violins. All I co...

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Lydia Niziblian

Dec 17, 2019
2 min

Tues December 17th: Confessions of a jewellery maker #1

I find it almost impossible to leave an email or message unanswered. This makes me pretty efficient in the speedy response department, bu...

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Lydia Niziblian

Dec 16, 2019
2 min

Monday December 16th: Love, RAOK & a Christmas give away.

It's only nearly flipping Christmas! On one hand it can be a beautiful and magical time. On the other, it can be the worst time of the ye...

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Lydia Niziblian

Dec 14, 2019
3 min

Saturday Dec 14th; an introduction.

Hello! I've been meaning to start this for ever, so have stopped procrastinating. Finally. If I want to keep this a regular feature, I'...

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