The Hens are OUT!

February 17, 2011

I’ve had my first international commission for a pyrography sign. I’m very excited!

Etsy is brilliant because it really highlights what an international world we live in now. There are craft sellers from all around the globe, and it’d fantastic that a family in California with a free-range egg business, will have my sign hanging on the door. How cool is that?!

Hens are IN

Hens are IN

Handmade business,

Fairy painting

Are you an artist? Am I?

When is it ok to call yourself an artist? Is it when you sell a few pieces of work? Is it when you make a full time living from it? Is it when you are represented by a gallery or when you’ve had a well-attended solo exhibition? Or is it simply when you spend time when you can, creating art because you love it?…

Creativity ideas #ourcreativeyear

February 21, 2022

This year, I thought it would be a good plan to try and encourage everyone to be more creative. Every month I’ll be writing a few ideas based around a prompt or theme to hopefully get you going! …

Modern fairytale painting

A fairytale in a painting

November 4, 2022

I don’t know if you had the same thing when you were at school, but once a week or so, we’d all be handed a card and we’d have to write a story about the picture on it. I remember it quite clearly because I’d look forward to that lesson and I always wanted to write an amazing story, but I was never inspired by the picture so I was always disappointed with what I wrote….

gratitude journaling

Why you should try gratitude journalling

February 14, 2022

Have you heard of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon? Or perhaps you’ve heard it called ‘Frequency bias’? Have you ever looked around for your new car; chosen a make and model you’re interested in, and then all of a sudden you see it everywhere? It’s the car in front of you in the traffic jam, and then you walk past two more as you walk across the car park to the Tescos entrance. It seems like the universe knows you want that car, and decides to show it to you ALL the time…

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