About this blog

This blog is the place where I share the fruits of my creativity.

It’s also the place where I connect with others: bloggers or people who don’t blog but who have found a connection with me through the things I do, the images I show or the words I write.  I’m very happy to have you here, and now count some of the people I’ve met through blogging as good friends.

Blogging has been, and continues to be, a creative journey for me.  The need to have something to blog about keeps me focused and encourages me to have a go at things I might not otherwise have tried.  It has prompted me to complete a large number of previously unfinished projects, and encouraged me to think about what the projects and themes I home in on are saying about me.  In other words, blogging has helped me to uncover and develop my creative voice.  No matter how many projects I complete along the way, the personal and skills development that go alongside this will always be a work in progress.

But for me, this is more than a place where I focus on my own projects.  There is another message in these pages: that I believe passionately in the power and value of creativity.  I believe each and every one of us is in possession of unique talents – gifts in unique combinations that we bring to the world – that, if we uncover, develop and allow ourselves to own them, will bring satisfaction and happiness not only to ourselves but perhaps even to our wider communities.  Finding the right creative outlet – be it playing tennis, synchronised swimming, dancing, cooking, needlecrafts, volunteering in the community or whatever does it for us – will not be the additional drain on our energy that will tip us over the edge.  If we allow it, it can provide much-needed balance and a way to recharge our batteries in an otherwise often stressful world.  My own experience has been that finding reasons to avoid using our creative talents is more stressful than giving into them.  Nor, in these cash-strapped times, need it be an impossible drain on resources.  Crafting with recycled materials and volunteering cost virtually nothing.  In times when I’ve been a bit obsessive about buying products, I know this has been about something else rather than the creativity – and some of those impulse buys are yet to be used.  These days I buy only what I need.

If having read this you never return here, but you take with you the idea of creativity as a means to self discovery and spreading positive energy in the world, then my blog will have achieved something.

Of course, if you do want to come back here regularly, that will be even better.