Reframing Mother’s Day
For some, Mother’s Day is a celebration of love and gratitude.
For others, it carries quiet heartache — for the mother they’ve lost, the one they never had, or the child they carry only in memory.
It’s a day that can hold joy, grief, complexity — sometimes all at once.
A beautiful garden gate, backing onto the Merri Creek Path in Coburg Victoria. I do not know the artist who created it, but I would walk past it often…
Honouring love in all its forms
Mother’s Day can be a beautiful celebration — but also a tender, complicated one. For many, it’s a day of flowers, breakfast in bed, and heartfelt gratitude. For others, it carries grief, distance, longing, or silence.
Maybe your mother is no longer here.
Maybe she wasn’t who you needed her to be.
Maybe you’re missing a grandmother, a carer, or someone who raised you in their own quiet way.
Maybe you are a mother who has lost a child — and every day, including this one, holds a weight beyond words.
Or perhaps you’re someone who longs to be a mother, has chosen not to be, or is navigating the complex path of motherhood in a form not easily named.
1984- A very small me, and my Grandmother Melba (Teena)
This year, I’ve been thinking about reframing Mother’s Day —
Not as a single story, but as a moment to honour mother energy as that instinct, woven so deeply into our core beings to create, protect and nurture—wherever it turns up for us in our lives, and how we share that energy with the world
That energy might come from a mentor, a dear friend, or a chosen family member.
It might live in the way we show up for our friends’ children, or the bond we have with our animals.
It might bloom in the ideas we nurture, the businesses we’ve built, the art we’ve made with love and persistence.
It’s in how we care for home, garden and the earth, how we listen deeply, how we soften for those we love.
And it’s in the quiet, powerful work of learning how to mother ourselves.
My dear Mum, Suzanne..and a slightly bigger me…1985?
This day can be joyful, painful, or quietly complicated — and all of that is real, and valid, and welcome.
In my own work, I try to honour these layered stories of love and legacy through my two distinct styles- “The Nature Collection”- which is rooted in nature’s small offerings and “Époque Lumineuse” - giving new life to antique and vintage glass stones and creating future heirlooms.
In my own life, I’ve learned that love is rarely neat. It shows up in chosen family, in memory, in objects passed down, and in the rituals we make for ourselves when the old ones no longer fit.
That’s what I hope my work can reflect —
pieces that honour not just “mothers,” but the people who shape us.
My beautiful Aunt and Godmother, Bernadette
If this day feels joyful for you, I celebrate with you.
If it feels heavy, I’m holding space for that too.
With gentleness,
— Virginia
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