Exciting News: Gratitude Junk Journal 2025 + A Free Spot Giveaway!

I am so excited to share some wonderful news with you, I will be teaching in Gratitude Junk Journal 2025, a beautiful online workshop hosted by the Tiare Smith! This year promises to be better than ever, and I couldn’t be happier to be part of it.

Alongside 12 other inspiring artist instructors, we’ll be guiding you through 30 days of joy, creativity, and gratitude. Together, we’ll open our hearts, celebrate our creative spirits.

But that’s not all…

I’m giving away a FREE spot in Gratitude Junk Journal 2025! 

How to Enter the Giveaway:

Giveaway runs until 30th September!

• Make sure you are a member of my Patreon (You can join here on the FREE tier or higher). 
• Leave a comment on the giveaway post sharing two things you’re grateful for in your creative journey.

You can also grab two additional chances to win [HERE].

What You Can Expect from the Workshop:

Every day, you’ll receive a new creative challenge designed to help you reflect, play, and practice gratitude. Some days it will be a question to ponder, other days a fun activity or art prompt. Each little step will guide you toward discovering more joy and creative flow.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll walk away with: 

• A beautiful altered book transformed into your personal gratitude journal.
• Gorgeous art journal pages filled with meaning.
• A daily practice of gratitude that sparks creativity and helps reduce stress.
• New ways to use what you already have to make amazing art.
• Techniques for backgrounds, layers, and textures you’ll use again and again.
• A JOY-filled heart, more love, and a smile that comes from deep within.

This isn’t just about making art, it’s about connecting with gratitude, finding inspiration in the everyday, and reminding ourselves of the light and joy that lives inside us.  Are you ready to Join Us?

If this sounds like something that speaks to you, don’t miss your chance to enter the giveaway today! Sign up for FREE and Leave your comment on Patreon and you and will be entered into the prize draw.

👉 ENTER TO WIN TODAY!

I am looking forward to seeing you inside Gratitude Junk Journal 2025 and share this creative journey with you.

With many blessings,
Amanda 💖

Reflective Fabric Adventures - Material Musings

 

Come and join me on Material Musings today as we get reflective over the work we have done on the eco dyeing at the moment.

Unraveled: Finding Balance in the Chaos - Arts and Wellness Cafe

 

Life has a way of unraveling just when we think we have everything under our control. Routines fall apart, and the tidy systems we worked so hard to build can suddenly feel like a tangled mess. But what if “unraveling” isn’t a sign of failure, but an invitation for a change of perspective?

Check out the Video

To unravel is to pause, breathe, and look at the pieces with fresh eyes. It is a time where you can reset or reshape old patterns into something new, something that fits your current situation. We can welcome unraveling as part of the creative process.

In my own practice, I’ve learnt that balance doesn’t come from trying to hold everything together perfectly. It comes from knowing when to let go, when to batch record. Some days it looks like sipping a herbal tea made from plants in my garden.  Other days it’s experimenting or letting stitched work return to nature. It is giving myself permission to rest, knowing that my health and wellbeing will fuel my creativity.

Art reminds us that beauty often comes from the imperfect and the unfinished.

Here are four reflections to think about when things feel unraveled:

1. Pause - Instead of rushing to fix, ask what’s really happening. Is this falling apart, or reshaping itself?
2. Rest as Renewal - Sleep and hydration aren’t luxuries; they’re the foundation for creativity and clarity.
3. Work with Nature - Look to cycles in the natural world. What can you learn from leaves, or seasons about letting go?
4. Find the Message - Your art doesn’t have to be perfect. Sometimes the “unraveled” pieces carry the most honest stories.

Before You Go....

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Owl's Art Journal Adventure - Second Saturday Art

Here is a nice little art journal page that I did as part of my collaboration with Second Saturday art.  I thought I would have a play about in my journal What are you working on? 

I thought I might try making this into a stitched piece as well at some point.  There are so many ways that you can present your work, even as a stuffed piece. I have created a small, stitched piece with beads, so a stuffed or stitched one that uses the same colors might look really cute.

Check it out the Owls story at the end of the video.

Get 'Early Release' videos on my Patreon Channel and some Behind the Scenes content.