SaltSpray Design

06/06/2026

There is a particular kind of tired that does not come from doing too much.t comes from managing yourself too much.

Your tone.
Your face.
Your usefulness.
Your opinions.
Your availability.
Your reasonable response to unreasonable things.

By the weekend, many women are not simply tired. They are relieved.Relieved to stop being quite so many acceptable versions of themselves.
No need to be impressive.
No need to soften the sentence.
No need to explain the preference before having it.
No need to make everyone else comfortable with the fact that you exist.

And sometimes, in that small gap, something returns.Not dramatically.
Just a small flicker.

Oh.
There I am.

That is part of what Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin is about. Not reinvention.A more inhabited life.

Available for preorder worldwide on Amazon until June 15.

Official launch day is June 15.

https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Decor-Home-Your-Skin-ebook/dp/B0H2SPV1VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37U6EJDHHGUES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wEQCk--XEy3-lTnMaZVwSw.eA-8ziqNZQpphMHhMke-A6_X2vBu-PtDT63iwY7xZK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book&qid=1780340516&sprefix=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

06/05/2026

Some objects are not impressive.They are just loyal. They sit there quietly holding a version of you that almost disappeared.

A bowl.
A mask.
A bird.
A chipped thing.
A stone from a place you still miss.
A ridiculous object that makes no sense to anyone else.
A handmade figure with a face that looks slightly too knowing.

These things are not clutter when they still carry truth. They are coordinates.
- They remind you where you have been.
- What you survived.
- Who you were before you became so reasonable.
- What made you laugh.
- What you refused to let become tidy.

That is why I keep coming back to the phrase:

Objects that remember you. Because sometimes the things we keep know something before we do.

Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin is available for preorder worldwide on Amazon until June 15.

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06/04/2026

A life can look fine and still feel strangely uninhabited. That is one of the quiet truths behind Soul Decor.
Not failed.
Not broken.
Not dramatic.

Fine.

The bills are paid.
The house functions.
The people are cared for.
The emails are answered.
The face is reasonable.
The calendar is full.

The whole thing appears to be working. And yet. Somewhere inside it, you may feel like you have become less visible to yourself.
Still there, obviously.

But softer around the edges.
More edited.
More useful.
Less odd.
Less rested.
Less honest.
Less here.

That kind of absence is hard to explain because nothing is technically wrong.

But your body knows.

Your home often knows too.

Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin is available for preorder worldwide on Amazon until June 15.

Official launch day is June 15.
https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Decor-Home-Your-Skin-ebook/dp/B0H2SPV1VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37U6EJDHHGUES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wEQCk--XEy3-lTnMaZVwSw.eA-8ziqNZQpphMHhMke-A6_X2vBu-PtDT63iwY7xZK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book&qid=1780340516&sprefix=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

06/04/2026

Update

25th June does not suit many so next options are July 2 or July 7?

Thought?

I’m hosting my very first sculptural talk on Keeper of the Light at the end of June at the Chezzetcook studio and I’d love to invite a small group of customers to be there. It’s a private event by email invitation only, on Thursday 25 June, with a relaxed wine-and-cheese evening and a proper look into some of the stories behind my work — the sculptures, the humour, the odd little truths that keep showing up in paper mâché and paste. There are only 30 spots, so please let me know if you’d like to come. I’d be very glad to have you there.

06/03/2026

Soul Decor is not interior design.

- It is not styling.
- It is not a prettier shelf.
- It is not buying more things.
- It is not arranging your life into something other people approve of.

Most of us already know how to do that. We know how to make things acceptable.
A room.
A face.
A body.
A sentence.
A life.

Soul Decor asks a different question: Does this life still recognise you?
Not the polished version.
Not the useful version.
Not the version who keeps the peace so well she forgets she has a preference.

You.

With your strange objects.
Your history.
Your humour.
Your scars.
Your old grief.
Your stubborn little joys.

Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin is available for preorder worldwide on Amazon until June 15.

Official launch day is June 15.

https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Decor-Home-Your-Skin-ebook/dp/B0H2SPV1VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37U6EJDHHGUES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wEQCk--XEy3-lTnMaZVwSw.eA-8ziqNZQpphMHhMke-A6_X2vBu-PtDT63iwY7xZK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book&qid=1780340516&sprefix=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

06/02/2026

There is something different about holding a book.

The weight of it.
The corners.
The fact that it can sit beside a chair, on a table, or under a coffee cup if life gets slightly untidy.

A book is an object too.

And that feels right for Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin.

Because this book is about the things we live among.

The objects that remember us.
The rooms that let us breathe.
The shelves that hold more than taste.
The strange little things we keep because some part of us knows they still matter.

This is not a decorating book.

It is about edited living, inhabited living, visible humanity, and the slow return to a life that feels more honestly yours.

The paperback and Kindle are available for preorder worldwide on Amazon until June 15. Official launch day is June 15.

https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Decor-Home-Your-Skin-ebook/dp/B0H2SPV1VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37U6EJDHHGUES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wEQCk--XEy3-lTnMaZVwSw.eA-8ziqNZQpphMHhMke-A6_X2vBu-PtDT63iwY7xZK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book&qid=1780340516&sprefix=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

06/02/2026

Discover SaltSpray Design, a cozy art studio, gallery, and café tucked inside a 150-year-old church in the heart of Chezzetcook.

South African-born owner Anthea is a contemporary folk artist who handcrafts paper mâché sculptures, symbolic objects, and Soul Decor. Her work is characterful, imperfect, and deeply personal, built by hand one quirky choice at a time.

SaltSpray Design is proudly Rainbow Registered, recognized as a safe, inclusive space for the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

Do not miss her Quirky Critters collection: playful, resilient pieces full of humour and heart, from a boundary-savvy bear to a woman standing confidently in her own skin. These sculptures bring warmth, personality, and identity to any space.

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Découvrez SaltSpray Design, studio d’art, galerie et café douillet installé dans une église de 150 ans au cœur de Chezzetcook.

La propriétaire native de l’Afrique du Sud, Anthea, est une artiste populaire contemporaine qui crée des pièces sculptures en papier mâché, des objets symboliques et des pièces Soul Decor. Son travail est rempli de caractère, imparfait et très personnel, fait à la main un choix original à la fois.

SaltSpray Design est fière d’avoir l’accréditation officielle de l’arc-en-ciel, reconnu comme espace sécuritaire et inclusif pour la communauté 2ELGBTQI+.

Ne manquez pas sa collection d’animaux Quirky Critters : des pièces amusantes, durables et remplies d’humour et de cœur, allant de l’ours qui respecte les limites à la femme qui se tient dans sa propre peau avec confiance. Ces sculptures apportent un réconfort, de la personnalité et une identité à n’importe quel espace.

06/02/2026

We are honoured to be featured by Nova Scotia Loyal for Pride month.

This one means a lot.

SaltSpray Design lives and works inside an old church in Nova Scotia — a place now filled with sculpture, colour, faces, animals, stories, laughter, sawdust, paint, coffee, and two gay people making a life and a business without hiding.

There is a kind of freedom in that which is hard to explain neatly.

Soul Decor is the idea that our spaces should not just look acceptable. They should hold memory, identity, humour, scars, belonging, and visible humanity. They should let us stop performing and start inhabiting our lives.

So being featured for Pride, inside this particular building, with this particular work, feels deeply right.

Pride is public, yes.
But it is also ordinary.

It is who gets to hold hands.
Who gets to build a business.
Who gets to make art.
Who gets to be visible in the rooms they live and work in.

Thank you, Nova Scotia Loyal, for seeing SaltSpray and Soul Decor so clearly.

Happy Pride from our old church studio by the sea.

06/01/2026

It is quietly here.

The Kindle edition of Soul Decor: At Home in Your Own Skin is available today (worldwide on Amazon) for preorder with the launch on 15 June 2026..

Which feels slightly unreal, because this book did not begin as a tidy book-shaped thing.

It began in rooms.
In objects.
In the feeling of being somehow absent from a life that looked perfectly fine.
In the exhaustion of being capable.
In the strange grief of becoming easier to need than to know honestly.

This is not a decorating book. It is not about making your home prettier.
It is about what happens when your home, body, objects, habits, humour, scars, and ordinary days begin telling the truth again. It is about moving from edited living toward inhabited living. From performing acceptability to becoming more honestly visible in the life you already have.

Kindle preorder is available today.
Paperback preorder follows tomorrow.

If this sounds like something your nervous system already understands, the book may be for you.
https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Decor-Home-Your-Skin-ebook/dp/B0H2SPV1VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37U6EJDHHGUES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wEQCk--XEy3-lTnMaZVwSw.eA-8ziqNZQpphMHhMke-A6_X2vBu-PtDT63iwY7xZK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book&qid=1780340516&sprefix=soul+decor+at+home+in+your+own+skin+book%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

05/31/2026