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Dear Muse Community,

Welcome to The Art of Living Well issue of Creating the Muse, an invitation to return to the richness of everyday life: the rituals that steady us, the beauty that softens us, the nourishment that brings us home, and the quiet choices that shape a meaningful life. While modern life so often asks us to move faster and achieve more, this issue asks us to slow down and remember that a beautiful life is not only something we create externally. It is something we learn to experience from within.

Our cover feature, Amanda Cordony, embodies this philosophy with warmth, elegance and unmistakable heart. Through The Cordony Kitchen, Amanda reminds us that food is never simply food. It is memory, love, generosity, family and care made visible. Her world of seasonal recipes, beautiful gatherings and heartfelt hospitality invites us to see the domestic not as ordinary or functional, but as deeply romantic, creative and alive. In Amanda’s hands, nourishment begins long before the first bite. It begins the moment someone feels welcomed, considered and held.

Across this issue, Jacinta Cottle shares the personal journey behind Auréa, Prue Aja explores the courage of being truly seen, Cassandra van Dorp, founder
Voeden Nutrition, reframes nourishment through body trust and compassion,
Sarah Payne of Sassy Hardwick creates evocative worlds through art and interiors, and Olivia Corney, the creator behind Orïelle, brings meaning and mythology to jewellery through pearls, gold and oceanic symbolism. Our contributors also offer thoughtful reflections on the art of living well: Pooja Nathoo explores the shift from depletion to design, Amy Campbell invites us to slow down and reconnect with pleasure and presence, and Penny Beaumont traces through poetry the many selves we gather across a lifetime.

As you move through this issue, I invite you to consider what the art of living well means in your own life. Where are you being called to slow down? What rituals bring you back to yourself? What beauty have you overlooked in the ordinary? What would it mean to create a life that is not only impressive from the outside, but deeply felt from within?

May this issue remind you that a meaningful life is not built only through grand gestures, but through the small, intentional acts of care, presence and devotion that make the everyday feel sacred.

Indiana Holley

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