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Hilde Festerling

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The DIY Diaries

Instagram Will Eat Your Art Practice

On how to preserve your creative interior

Mar 15

Instagram Will Eat Your Art Practice

Mar 15

Published in
Frazzled

When Real Dolls Go Real Rogue

The perils of an imaginative family life

Feb 24

Photo of an eerie-looking little doll wearing a onesie and missing the top half of her skull, tied to a stake with a tiny firecracker strapped to her back.

Feb 24

Published in
The DIY Diaries

Home Is Where the Haunted Dolls Rest

How to transform your childrens’ toys into a nightmarish exploration of the gothic for the whole family

Feb 23

Home Is Where the Haunted Dolls Rest

Feb 23

Published in
The DIY Diaries

How to Disrupt the World with Stories

And why I have to keep trying

Feb 3

How to Disrupt the World with Stories

Feb 3

Published in
The DIY Diaries

How to Create the Garden of Your Kids’ Dreams

Or maybe just distract them from falling into the pond for ten minutes

Jan 19

a boy gestures toward a pile of greens and flowers, while a cat watches on

Jan 19

Published in
The DIY Diaries

How to Celebrate Christmas in (Not Quite) the North Pole

Three vignettes from a Canadian childhood

Dec 23, 2024

How to Celebrate Christmas in (Not Quite) the North Pole

Dec 23, 2024

Published in
Frazzled

My Baby Was a Real Live Beatrix Potter Quote Bot

There is such a thing as too much early literacy

Dec 8, 2024

Artwork from The Roly-Poly Pudding, courtesy Wikimedia Commons, showing two mice rolling a cat into a pastry with a rolling pen.

Dec 8, 2024

Published in
Age of Empathy

“Mom, Do I Look Like Rock Star Meat Loaf?”

Conversations in body and identity with my son (and a fourth-grade teacher)

Nov 28, 2024

“Mom, Do I Look Like Rock Star Meat Loaf?”

Nov 28, 2024

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Human Parts

To Each Their Own Eyesore

My mom, my kid, and the twelve-foot skeleton from Home Depot

Nov 25, 2024

To Each Their Own Eyesore

Nov 25, 2024

Published in
The DIY Diaries

Cooking the National Pest Instead of a Turkey

Or, how to ruin your romantic prospects on Canadian Thanksgiving

Nov 24, 2024

Cooking the National Pest Instead of a Turkey

Nov 24, 2024

Hilde Festerling

Hilde Festerling

she/her

Writer and storyteller for the subversive family audience. Speaking to the childhood awakenings still alive in every reader.

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