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Your Home Is a Frequency Field: Fill It Like You Mean It
Conscious Living, Craft and Culture Alice Fognani Conscious Living, Craft and Culture Alice Fognani

Your Home Is a Frequency Field: Fill It Like You Mean It

We curate playlists, sip herbal teas and practice rituals to feel well, yet the place we spend the most time, our home, is often overlooked. Feng Shui reminds us that a house is more than walls; it is a frequency field that either nourishes or depletes us. Every object, from the cup we drink our tea from to the blanket we pull over our shoulders, carries energy that influences how we feel. This article explores how intention, artisan craft and the principles of Feng Shui can transform our spaces into sanctuaries that support creativity, balance and joy.

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The Most Enduring Beauty Is Woven Slowly

The Most Enduring Beauty Is Woven Slowly

At Su Trobasciu in Sardinia, women weave as their mothers and grandmothers once did.
Each rug and tapestry carries patience, memory and resilience, reminding us that the strongest beauty is never rushed.
It is woven slowly, in cloth, in love, and in life.

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THE ART OF CARE: Plants and Ancient Wisdom, Modern Makers
Craft and Culture, Conscious Living Alice Fognani Craft and Culture, Conscious Living Alice Fognani

THE ART OF CARE: Plants and Ancient Wisdom, Modern Makers

The Art of Care: Why Plant Remedies Matter for Women’s Health and Transformation

Across generations, women have turned to plants not just for healing but for resilience, beauty, and connection. From chamomile to sage, roses to resins, these remedies have always been more than alternatives. They are part of a feminine lineage of care that shaped daily life and transformation.
In today’s fast-paced world, where health is often reduced to quick fixes and beauty to surface, a return to plant remedies feels both radical and necessary.
Made By Her believes that plants are not only allies in physical wellbeing but also companions in personal growth, helping us remember wholeness and reconnect with the rhythms of nature. Supporting women artisans who create with plants means honoring sustainability, tradition, resilience and keeping alive the art of care as an essential part of our future.

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Conscious Living Is the Real Craft

Conscious Living Is the Real Craft

Conscious living isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence.

In this piece, we explore how choosing to live with intention transforms not just what we create, but how we show up in the world. For women who make with their hands and hearts, presence is the real signature. This is where the craft begins: not with the object, but with the energy behind it.

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Your Home Is a Frequency Field
Conscious Living, Craft and Culture Alice Fognani Conscious Living, Craft and Culture Alice Fognani

Your Home Is a Frequency Field

Your home is not just a backdrop. It’s alive. It remembers. It mirrors you. In this powerful reflection on Feng Shui, craft, and energy, we explore how the objects you choose, especially handmade ones, don’t just decorate your space, they shape your life.
Because when women create with presence, their work becomes medicine for the home and portals for transformation.

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The Art of Alchemization

The Art of Alchemization

What if the act of creation was never just about the object, but about you?
In the hands of a woman shaping clay, thread, or gold, there’s a secret: she’s not just making art, she’s becoming it. This isn’t just a story about artisans. It’s a revelation. A remembering. That we are all alchemists of our lives, shaping pain into power, chaos into beauty, and mess into meaning. This is the real masterpiece: the woman becoming herself.

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