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A few months ago I discovered Amy Maricle of Mindful Art Studio, and I am so thankful! She does live Slow Drawing parties on Facebook every Wednesday, and they are lovely. Each week there’s a theme, but the process is very open ended. Her goal […]

  Going through the archives of my old blog, I came upon something I absolutely adored back in 2006 – The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun from BoxofCrayons. It started out as a flash movie, but now it’s up on YouTube. It is as relevant […]

After talking about having an uncluttered working space I wanted to show you all the room where it happens. (I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this here, but another of my obsessions is the Hamilton Musical. If you know, you know). I ran my five […]

Productive Creativity? What’s that? Well I like to think of it as creativity with a purpose. Mindful creativity. Creativity that meets a certain goal. I’m not saying you should be measuring this in the traditional way of course. Just in a way that is meaningful […]

I came across a fantastic method of motivating myself to complete craft projects in one of the bullet journaling groups on Facebook. Crafty Bingo! Basically a grid of unfinished projects, and as you complete them you can shade the squares to try to get a […]

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”― Alice Walker, The Color Purple P.S. I share a daily quote on Twitter. Follow me there to get them every day!

One of the things that I am learning while doing my #100DayProject is that I really need to plan out my paintings. I’m no expert. Not in portraits or in watercolour. I started off by trying to wing things, thinking I had enough knowledge, but […]

For years now I’ve wanted to consistently make my own clothing. I have saved a bunch of sewing tutorials and other ideas on Pinterest. I also had a 2020 goal to do an upcycled wardrobe project. That never happened because I was quite creatively paralysed […]

Seriously. This month I have been trying really really hard not to buy any more yarn, and definitely not to start any new projects! Instead I am going through my stash, finding my favourites, and deciding what I will use them for eventually. I wound […]