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  • The Legend of Princess Cantara and Her Two Suitors
    Maps & Mysteries

    The Legend of Princess Cantara and Her Two Suitors

    28 November 202529 November 2025
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    Alicante Folklore & Ghost Stories from Santa Bárbara Castle High above Alicante, Santa Bárbara Castle sits on the peak of Mount Benacantil, its walls steeped in stories and legends. For as long as locals have been telling tales, they’ve whispered that this fortress is far more than stone and battlements. It is a place where…

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  • The Mountain With the Missing Piece
    Maps & Mysteries

    The Mountain With the Missing Piece

    24 November 202524 November 2025
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    From the tram station, Puig Campana rises over Benidorm like a silent, brooding sentinel. At first glance, its sheer bulk dominates the skyline, but it is a single, dramatic feature near its summit that immediately arrests the eye: a conspicuous, jagged gap known locally as El Portell — “The Gate.” This wound in stone, later…

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  • Whitbread's new plan of London: drawn from authentic survey (1853) by J. Whitbread. Original from Library of Congress. Public Domain
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    Haunted Cartographies

    8 October 202514 November 2025
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    When I was a little girl, I would sit cross-legged on the carpet with an atlas spread open before me. I treated it like a storybook, tracing the blue lines of rivers and the winding veins of mountain ranges with a fingertip. I memorised bolden cities and each name — Samarkand, Valparaíso, Reykjavik — shimmered…

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Magic Beyond the Map

Lost Adventures invites you to wander off the beaten path and uncover the quiet magic hidden in plain sight. Through myth, travel, art, and soulful reflection, it explores spirituality, self-discovery, and the art of finding wonder wherever you are.

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Loving the test deck for the Quiet Rebel Survival Loving the test deck for the Quiet Rebel Survival oracle!
My my mini test deck of the Quiet Rebel Survival o My my mini test deck of the Quiet Rebel Survival oracle arrived this morning. I'm chuffed with it.

It made me laugh because the first card is Reach for the Emergency Biscuit, and this week I've been so tempted to constantly have my hand in the biscuit tin. The car has broken down and the mechanic is on holiday, my label printer isn't behaving, my daughter decided to move out, and after cutting down on said emergency biscuits, my trousers are tighter than before switching to salads. Aaargh!

But the cards are lovely. I enjoyed Moulin Rouge this week. I've got a good quote to replace the shed doors that are currently held up with sellotape (not joking). My Kickstarter is doing well. I'm still breathing so it's a win.
While I'm waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to While I'm waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to run its course (funded in less than 3 hours - thank you!!), I've been making little pieces of art in the evening on my tablet. Just for the pure joy of it. This is Between the Tides.
#digitalcollage
When in Dublin.... When in Dublin....
After a week of headaches and avoiding my laptop, After a week of headaches and avoiding my laptop, the cards for the Quiet Rebel Survival Oracle are finished! Woo hoo!

Do you have a favourite? 

I'm planning to launch on Kickstarter next Friday 24th. Follow on Kickstarter to get notified as soon as it goes live.
The next batch of cards for the Quiet Rebel Surviv The next batch of cards for the Quiet Rebel Survival Oracle. What's your fav from these cards?

 I'm leaning towards card 33 - Be the Monster in the Woods. The keyword is Fierceness and it's the second time I've featured a Pankhurst (this is Christobel and in the original Quiet Rebel oracle Sylvia is featured in 'Not for Sale'). I've added little bees in this card to link to Manchester where the UK suffragette movement kicked off.

This work-in-progress oracle deck is almost finished. You can be notified when it's live by following on Kickstarter.
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