Hi...A little about me / In Her Ruins

inherruins
Aug 31
2 min read

About me:

Hi, I'm Nicole. I am a co-parent to a wonder and smart 3 year old, and I have an obsession with notebooks. I have been writing since I can remember and started writing poetry when I was about 14 years old (thanks to my literature teacher.) I self publoished my own poetry book (under the name Illi Nieve Knox @illi.nieve on IG) in 2016 called "Black Canvas" which was like all my poetry, is about my life. On the flip side, I love to create things, although most times I am making a mess when I create (busy books for the kid) it gives me a sense of peace and calm.

Why I started In Her Ruins Stationery:

As mentioned above, I love notebooks but not just notebooks, I am a sucker for a good pen, and have currently gotten into planners and the whole world that comes with it. I was buying a new notebook what seemed like every 2 months or so as I was always writing stuff down. I don't know how I came across it, but I ended up watching a video on Youtube about how to make hardcover notebooks, and the gears in my mind started turning. Shortly after that, my family went through a serious health situation tha ended up ultimately with me losing my mother ( my only living parent), I needed to put my focus somewhere and decided to purchase the Cinch Machine and all of the rest of the materials and made my first notebook. I then took said notebook to work and showed it to a couple co-workers, who in turn asked me to make them notebooks, which lead to more people asking and thus In Her Ruins was born.

Why In Her Ruins?

It is the name of a short quote that I wrote some time ago that reads:

You see the beauty, yet you do not know of the destruction that created what you stand in awe of.

As you may be able to tell, it is inspired by the ruins. We look at them, tour them, and admire there beauty, but these are things that were once whole, now destroyed. What's left of them is still beautiful, strong. Like people, we go through a lot of things that are meant to break us and some of them do, but here we are still strong, still beautiful, still standing. For those of us who like to journal, we often write abou our ruins (our past), and all of the things that we have gone through so as a whole, the name just seems fitting.