Sunday, 27 July 2025

Listen to the Page - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series

 


Sometimes we approach a blank page with all our ideas already formed or sometimes we look at a blank page and nothing comes to us. But what if the page itself had something to say?

Today is an invitation to slow down and listen.

 

What is it that you want to say about your creative journey.  Visually these moments can be meditative as we practice being still and listening.  When we listen, the page becomes more than a canvas, it becomes a companion. A mirror. A witness. And sometimes, that is where the real magic happens.

What you can try

  • Start without a plan. Choose one color, one tool, and one word or shape. Add, pause, listen. Let the page guide your next steps.
  • Instead of forcing an idea or trying to make something beautiful, begin your page with gentle observation. Start with a color that feels right. Let your hand make marks without a goal. Pause. What’s emerging? What does the page need? A little space? A layer of texture? A word?
  • Treat your page like a living thing. Let it guide you. Try responding instead of directing. This type of intuitive creation opens the door to new discoveries it’s less about control and more about connection.

Takeaway Nuggets:

  • Intuition deepens when we slow down and respond to the process.
  • The page becomes a mirror when we truly listen.


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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 


Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .



Saturday, 26 July 2025

Zoom Out + Celebrate - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series


Think about your creative practice and how many times you have shown up for yourself and celebrate. If you have been joining me daily on this journey then You have made past the halfway mark, now take time to zoom out, reflect, and celebrate. You’ve shown up for your creative self for 26+ days. That’s no small thing.

As you look back through your journal or art pieces. What do you see? How have you grown, where have you shown courage? What does your creative voice sound like. These are the fruits of your commitment you have shown to yourself.


What you can try 

  • Create a page that celebrates this journey so far. 
  • Take a moment to celebrate yourself today. 
  • Make a joyful page, dance, write yourself a love letter. Share your work if it feels right.

Takeaway Nuggets:

  1. Completion is a form of creative joy. 
  2. Your journey matters—every single step.


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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 


Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .



Friday, 25 July 2025

Your Creative Why - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series






Why do you create? What brings you to the page and into your studio or creative space, the paint, the thread, the glue? Your creative “why” is your foundation, it is important to articulate it. 

It can ground you when you’re lost, fuel you when you’re tired, and give purpose to the process.  Check out the following Video:



What you can try

  • Create a page around your creative purpose. Use images, color, and affirmations.
  • Spend time today reflecting on what drives your creativity. Is it joy? Healing? Connection? Play?
  • Once you find your “why,” document it. Write it down. Make a visual reminder. 

This will become your anchor in future moments of doubt or creative fatigue.

Takeaway Nuggets:
  1. Your “why” roots your practice in meaning.
  2. Purpose sustains creativity through the peaks and valleys


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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 


Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .






Thursday, 24 July 2025

Express - Filling The Creative Well - Blog Series

 

Expression is at the foundation of our art, and we can find many different creative ways for that expression to be visible. Let go of the idea that it has to take a specific form or be what 'others normally do'. It is coming from you, and it doesn’t have to be pretty. It just needs to be your truth.

Let go of polish and focus on truth-telling through color, line, and texture. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it is a practice that you commit to.

What are you holding right now, it could be emotionally, mentally, spiritually? Pour it onto the page this is not a performance it is for you. Let the work be raw, real, and uncensored.



What you can Try 

  • Make a page that expresses a strong emotion or truth you’re carrying today
  • Use color to represent mood, create marks, writing, or found words.
  • This is your space to show visually how you feel to vent or celebrate. Cry on the page, laugh, sing or whisper.

Expression is not about art that’s understood, it is about art that feels.

Takeaway Nuggets:

  1. Expression is healing even when it’s messy.
  2. Your page can hold what your words cannot voice.

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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 


Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .



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