Creativity will help us through

These are strange times. Many of us are now ‘social distancing’ or ‘self isolating’ at home because of Coronavirus/Covid-19 - including me. Very sadly, all of this spring’s Spark Creativity experiences and holidays are now cancelled or postponed, and I’m expecting to have to rearrange the summer ones too. I’m so sorry if you’re one of the people affected by this, and I know you’ll be as gutted as we are. But it’s the right thing to do to keep us all as safe as possible, and I really hope you’ll join us in the late summer or autumn or next year instead.

We need new ways of creating and learning together, especially now. So I’ve been working hard over the past few weeks to develop lots of new creative activities and resources for you, which you can use online or at home. I’m making new Small Sparks Videos every week and sharing loads of inspiring photos. I have created original printable line-art illustrations for Colouring, and every week I will be sharing a few ‘Kindling Creativity Cards’ to get your creative juices flowing if you ever get stuck!

If you’re feeling a bit isolated or you’d just like to meet up with me and others, I’ll be running online Creativity Cafes every Friday starting next week, via Zoom. These 30 min sessions are free and ‘first-come-first-served - so why not join me there?! Afterwards, if you’re still itching to create more, you can also join Creativity ‘After-Cafe’ sessions for a small fee.

And if you can still get out for a walk, Walking Weirdly is a new and unique way to explore and experience even places that are very familiar to you. Digital sets will be available to download very soon (I have some physical sets too, though at the moment these are in Greece - but get in touch if you are too!). I’ll do a whole separate blog post about Walking Weirdly soon!

I’ve made many of these activities and resources FREE, because I know that we all need extra creativity and loveliness at the moment...  And last but not least, if you are able to buy something, join a paid activity or perhaps just ‘buy me a coffee’,  I’d be really grateful, because I’ve lost almost all my income for the first half of 2020 - maybe longer... Please help me now if you can, so I can keep helping you to spark YOUR creativity through these difficult times.