A Year and a Day

31/12/2024

Thank you for all your support and we look forward to another wonderful year with you ☺️✨

09/12/2024

It's here! Our new winter issue CRYSTALS AND CAVES! 💎🪨
In this issue, we'll journey into caves and other magical places to discover the secret of crystals.

💎 The new issue is now on sale at for the UK.

💎 Available soon at

💎 We are currently working on relaunching our online shop. For our readers in the EU—and of course, outside the EU as well—you can order a subscription by emailing us at [email protected]

30/10/2024

We are excited to announce that our magazine is now available in the Czech Republic, specifically at the lovely bookstore DLOUHÁ PUNČOCHA in Brno☺️

28/10/2024

Having fun making homemade apple juice, from our autumn issue, In the Treetops 🍂🍎

05/10/2024

It's here! Our new autumn issue, IN THE TREETOPS!🍂🌳
The new issue is now on sale at for the UK.
In this edition, we'll talk a lot about trees and what their leafy branches mean for children, animals, forest fairies and even for communities of people.

💎We are also working on the winter issue, which will be all about crystals. And we need your crystals. Please send us pictures of your crystals; we would love to decorate the magical cave with them!

11/06/2024

Win our magazine, and many other incredible prizes (see post) while also supporting an excellent school!

03/06/2024

We were busy searching for the Loch Ness monster over the weekend! We were lucky enough to take a trip to Fort Augustus on the southern shore of Loch Ness. Our love of Scottish folk and fairy tales has definitely been fostered in part by two wonderful books from , written by and illustrated by - the two treasuries of Scottish mythical creatures and Scottish castle legends are absolutely stunning. (Swipe to see pictures).

Are there any mythical creatures lurking about where you live?

29/05/2024

Shared living creates deep and lasting relationships.

29/05/2024

🦅 It’s here! Our new summer issue, F L I G H T! 🦅

With a gorgeous cover by our very own

It’s summer, and in the Northern hemisphere we are experiencing long and light-filled days. As we stretch out on the grass, watching clouds float overhead, we can see winged creatures floating, soaring and flitting by. Birds, bees and winged insects all find their flow on currents of air.

In this issue, we include three stories all about flight. They are stories that explore what happens when people try to fly, what it might be like to have a bird’s eye view of life, and the mystery that is woven into the wings of butterflies.

And by the end of this issue, we hope you will be able to make a kite, identify birds of prey, create your own wings, understand the ways humans have tried to fly (and failed)... and much more!

Available soon

09/04/2024

Ravi working on his butterflies for our summer issue.

29/03/2024

Wishing you all a good Good Friday.

08/03/2024

A cause close to many hearts, Steiner education in Bristol. Donate and share if you feel able to.

Please help save Bristol Steiner School and ensure a Steiner Waldorf education survives and thrives in Bristol in perpetuity.

25/02/2024

Light / Not Yet / Becoming

Some of you may know that I work with a group of writers in a workshop called ‘Rewild Your Imagination.’ It’s an inclusive group - adults and children, some of whom have a learning disability. We meet at eight seasonal ‘points’ in the year. Our last session, ‘Revive’, happened at Imbolc/ Candlemas, in that space between winter solstice and spring equinox, just as the light began to return to our days.

In the workshop we tried to write about ‘in between’ times, when we are on the edge of something happening, something wanting to emerge.

The tight little frills of leaves pushing their way out of buds will soon become waving hands on branches. Shoots squeezing through soil will soon become plants with brightly coloured flowers. They will become. In spring it can feel like everything is becoming at once.

Actually it can feel overwhelming if, like me, you feel you are living in a state of ‘Not Yet’. Constantly on the verge of something that doesn’t become. It can feel restless. Frustrating. Yet when we observe small changes in nature, we see becoming is not a happening. It’s cyclical, and sometimes it becomes year by year, inch by inch (moss), ring by ring (tree). Incompleteness is natural. There is ‘disfinality’ in everything.

In the comments I have added a creative prompt from our workshop. Happy imagining!

Lydia

PS. I want to credit and her amazing podcast How We Live Now. I’ve been working my way through the back catalogue and there is so much wisdom contained in each episode. The word ‘disfinality’ is one I heard in her brilliant conversation with the incredible Bayo Akomolafe.

23/02/2024

Spear thistle (cirsium vulgare)

23/02/2024

We've got rivers on the mind, as our new spring issue, yes, you guessed it, 'Rivers' is almost ready for you all.
(Order it from Conscious Craft)

I came across this poem by Tennyson today, in a beautiful old book that gave me, and I thought it captured the journey of a river beautifully.

25/01/2024

N E W F R O N T C O V E R!

Revealing the beautiful front cover for Issue 17: Rivers, but our very own, very talented

Issue 17: Rivers will be out from the beginning of March from for the UK and for the US.

Seasonal stories for growing imaginations…

A Year and a Day magazine aims to lead children into the kingdom of fairy and folk tales and out into the natural world around them. Issue 17 includes three traditional tales, all about the life of rivers. And for each story, there’s a range of creative activities for you to discover, including how to -
💦 create a river swimmer from leaves
💦 draw a heron
💦 make a dam
💦 channel a water course
💦 write your own river myth
💦 make your own ‘Top Trumps’ game with river-dwelling animals

16/01/2024

WE NEED YOUR RIVER FISH! We are extending our deadline for submissions of artwork to the magazine. You now have until Sunday 21st January at 9pm to submit your picture. We love this fish that was sent to us - we think it might be inspired by … we wonder whose hat it has stolen?!

To submit your artwork:
- draw or paint or collage your river fish on a solid white background
- Let us know the type of river fish you have drawn
- scan your picture or take a good quality photo in daylight and send to [email protected]
- one submission per person, please!
- we try to feature all artworks in our magazine but due to the volume of submissions, it is not always possible!

Happy drawing!