Hello Creative QB’s, If you are not getting enough rest or feeling more stressed than usual, you could be experiencing adrenal fatigue. What has that got to do with creativity? Imagine your creativity is a state of wellbeing and that stress, overwhelm and burnout is...
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How isolation will help get your creative mojo back
Hello Creative QB’s, Creative mojo is just a sassy word for joy! The longer we are COVID 19 isolation, the longer it seems we live in perpetual uncertainty. We are all trying to figure out this new normal, so here are a few ideas on how you can get your creative mojo...
8 essential foundations for living a creative life
Hello Creative QB’s, Please repeat after me #Iamcreative The days of waiting for that magical, illusive ‘time out’, in order for you to create something that lights you up, that brings you joy and increases you wellbeing are here. Now it's time to happy dance!!! 2...
A word about 2019
Hello Creative QB’s, On this last day of 2018, it’s in my nature to ponder the year that was. In the history of my many years, it was a good one. Sometime back in December I started thinking about 2019 with intention. Not like a resolution or something to achieve, but...
Drawing the end of 2018 with very Merry Christmas
Hello Creative QB’s, Has 2018 been a good year for you? Are you ready to farewell this year with a good dose of Christmas cheer? At the start of the year I recall reading somewhere that 2018 would be a year of endings. However 2018 rolled for you, there...
Stretching the comfort zone of your creativity
Hello Creative QB’s, How stepping from comfy sand shoes to nine-inch high heels helped me stretch out of my comfort zone and enter a regional art prize. If like me, creativity is starting to feel like an old comfy pair of favourite sandshoes it maybe...
How to make creative U Turns
10 reasons why YOU think you’re not creative and 10 ways to TURN it around. Have you every thought to yourself, “I want to do something more creative, I just don’t know what that is?”. If this sounds like you, then you are not alone. If you have...
Budgeting for Creatives
Hello Creative QB’s, 2-3 minute read Try this one simple way to help fend off the starving artist syndrome in the pursuit of personal creativity. I don’t know about you, but stepping into my favourite art supply store to buy “just a few things’ is enough to send my...
Creativity is like gardening
Hello Creative QB’s, 2 minute read I love gardening and have a favourite old beaten-up hat I wear; it makes me feel like a gardener. Creative ideas are like gardens and often my best ideas come after a day moseying around the yard, digging in the dirt. Gardens thrive...
Travel is the creative space of wanderlust
Hello Creative QB’s, By our guest blogger, Kristy McLoughlin (nee O'Bryan) 2 minute read We would love to introduce you to someone special today. We have another sister her name is Kristy. She is the middle child of the family and by her own admission is...