Tag: Nursery

• Our home – A never ending project

  

  We bought our South East London home in early 2015 when there was a brief ‘lucky dip’ in the crazily rising prices of the exploding housing market. Set on top of and built into a very steep hill (which we reasoned was the explanation the neighbours were all so old, and wouldn’t it keep us…

  Charlotte Turner

  Home-Making

  Bathroom, Bedroom, DIY, Garden, Home, Home-Making, Kitchen, Living room, Nursery, Office, Renovation, Stewie

• One piece at a time – the power of puzzles for healing

  

  Jigsaw puzzles are perhaps the most perfect activity for people in the trenches of grief, and generally anybody who would like some mental and emotional respite. There was a long period around the time we were waiting to find out why Stewie had died, and after we did, where all I could manage to do…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Living

  Activities, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Grief rituals, Jigsaw puzzles, Loss, Mental Health, Nursery, Stewie, Wellbeing

• Symbolic sewing – Zero Waste Dress

  

  This zero waste linen dress was my first creation after Stewie was born. In the three weeks between his funeral and my six week doctors check up, when I was utterly bereft and broken and the finality of everything had really hit me, I would go into his nursery and sit at my new table…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Grieving, Remembering

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Loss, Nursery, Remembrance Bear, Sewing, Stewie, Stillbirth

• Aching Arms

  

  Aching Arms is a charity which is very close to our hearts, as it supports parents who have experienced the heartbreak of losing their baby during pregnancy, at birth or soon after. This support is immeasurably important as this kind of loss can feel completely isolating as well as absolutely devastating. Knowing this from personal…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving, Remembering

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Charity, Grief, Loss, Nursery, Remembrance Bear, Stewie, Stillbirth