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The Lovely Life

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Ten small, beautiful things — a story, a supper, a stretch, a song — gathered in one download. It's the whole of what I make, in miniature: a gentle place to start living lovely today.

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The Lovely Life
8 Novels
Quilt Patterns
Yoga Teacher
4,000+ in the Society
What's Inside

Ten little beginnings

One from every corner of what I do — reading, cooking, moving, making. Take them one a day, or all at once on a slow Saturday.

01 – Watch
A Welcome Video
Two minutes with me — who I am, why "lovely" is the whole point, and how to use everything in this kit.
An Exclusive Short Story
02 – Read
An Exclusive Short Story
The songs I write, cook, and quilt to. Press play and the whole house feels a little kinder.
The Live Lovely Playlist
03 – Listen
The Live Lovely Playlist
The songs I write, cook, and quilt to. Press play and the whole house feels a little kinder.
A Gentle Yoga Practice
04 – Move
A Gentle Yoga Practice
Twenty unhurried minutes in your living room. No props, no pretzels — just breath and a little space.
A Coloring Page
05 – Color
A Coloring Page
Hand-drawn florals from my quilt sketchbooks. Print it, find your pencils, let your shoulders drop.
A Ready-to-Frame Print
06 – Frame
A Ready-to-Frame Print
The coloring page, finished in my colors. For a frame, a pinboard, or the refrigerator door.
A Printable Bookmark
07 – Keep
A Printable Bookmark
Print, cut, tuck into whatever you're reading. Comes with the full Virginia'dele reading order on the back.
Word Search & Crossword
08 – Play
Word Search & Crossword
Built from Green Hills, its people, and its many pies. Fair warning: book 3 spoilers hide in the corners.
A Quilt Block Pattern
09 – Make
A Quilt Block Pattern
One block, beginner-friendly, with cutting chart and diagrams. Make one for a pillow — or ninety-nine for a quilt.
A Recipe for a
The Centerpiece

A Recipe for a

Lovely Date Night

Not a recipe for dinner — a recipe for the evening. Everything you need to turn an ordinary Thursday into the night you'll both bring up years from now.

  1. The idea checklist – thirty date ideas, sorted by budget, weather, and how tired you are.
  2. Conversation cards — twenty-four printable prompts that go somewhere better than "how was work."
  3. Printable recipe cards — the Davenport supper I make when it matters, on cards worth keeping.
Ashli Montgomery
Meet Ashli

Everyday moments,

celebrated as extraordinary

I write clean, hopeful romance as Virginia'dele Smith. I also teach yoga, design quilt patterns, feed people, and talk about my faith more than is strictly fashionable. It all comes from one belief: a lovely life isn't something you're handed. It's something you make, on a Tuesday, with what you've got.

This kit is the shortest way I know to hand you a piece of each of those things at once.

Ashli
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