Brainstorming or brainwriting – Fancy words for tools you can use in your everyday creative life.
How do you come up with ideas? With fancy creative life tools and techniques that you can keep in your handbag.
Daily Acts of Creativity, the podcast for students and teachers
Download on iTunes Daily Acts Of Creativity, the podcast for students and teachers created to support student's wellbeing while studying online or at home. A thirty part podcast series for students to explore short, simple, easy and fun creative activities in dance,...
Happy hormones for creative wellbeing
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...
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...
Rainbows wishes for Red Noses
Wishes for giving back Cate's fibre art Rainbows for Red Noses are available HERE > This past Monday marked the birthday of my second born child, a little boy we named Eamon. This year he would have turned 7. Eamon died suddenly and unexpectedly when...
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...
Brand Love and Creative Love
Hello Creative QB’s, I am thrilled to be launching my series of masterclass workshops; ‘Brand Love’ on October 20th and ‘Creative Love’ on November 24th. By Amanda 2 minute read I've been busting to run workshops ever since moving back to the...
Guilt Free Creativity
Doing it for the kids! This week, we have escaped in our caravan for the school holidays. Apart from board games, bikes and the beach, it’s up to my kids to make their own fun. I’m taking a few moments to work on some beautiful hand-made...
Finding Time To Be Creative
Hello Creative QB’s, 2 minute read Google states time is “a measure used to sequence and compare the duration of events, and to quantify rates of change in material reality or in the conscious experience.” Wowsa..when I read this I was immediately...
Branding Blitz for Small Business
Branding Blitz for Small Business The secret to creating an engaging, successful brand in small business is creative strategy. In this 4 hour hands-on workshop I'm going to show you how to build a creative, cut through brand, raise your brand awareness and implement...
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...