goodbye finding quiet

it's time for a change

hello quiet readers,

at almost this exact same time last month, i was getting ready to send you a letter telling you that i was changing the name of this newsletter to oat milk diaries. oat milk diaries is the name of my youtube channel and personal website and since finding quiet wasn’t sitting right with me (and hadn’t been for a while, it feels too “brand-y”), i thought it would be best to make both names the same, for business reasons or something. but then i remembered that i am not a business woman lol, and most importantly, that’s not why i made this substack, or my youtube channel or my personal website. i did all those things because it felt like a fun thing to do in the moment.

i thought it would be best not to rush into the new name, and it’s a good thing i didn’t because oat milk diaries still didn’t seem to fit the vibe i was going for here either. but i think i’ve found it now.

welcome to the sun room.

you may have seen me mention that my partner and i call our office the sun room because it’s the room that gets the most light. it’s also the only room that is actually completely decorated since we moved back in october, my favourite room in our house and where i do all of my writing. as soon as the sun room popped into my head as the potential new name for this newsletter, it felt right straight away. every time i sit down to write, i am sat in this room, staring out of the window, basking in the sunshine (as much as i can during winter anyway).

i also wanted to make the background colour of the site the same colour as the walls in here (which i’ve just learned is called honeydew! how sweet!) but that colour didn’t quite suit the vibe. just know, the colour of this newsletter’s soul is honeydew.

this name feels more fitting for the type of writing i want to share with you. not much will change, i’ll still write our monthly little joys and little sorrows and the quiet list will continue with free zines shipped to paid subscribers, but other posts will sound more like this and this. more personal posts i’d rather the whole world didn’t see will be for paid subscribers also. overall, i want to take a more diaristic approach with my writing, the sort of thing i was writing when i first started up this newsletter. i think i got a bit swept up in the numbers of it all, writing posts that didn’t really feel like me, checking stats too often, slowly moving away from the writer i’d really like to be.

i’d still like this to be somewhere quiet, cosy and thoughtful you come to when everything else feels a bit much. i still want you to leave my corner of the internet feeling a little replenished and a little more at ease.

i hope you like the new name. if you have any questions or thoughts, feel free to let me know in the comments. and thank you for understanding, i know big changes like these can be a little jarring.

love,

candice☀️​