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Category Archives: creative work
Thoughts on Radical Kindness: Why writers and artists should practice it (Part 3)
[This is part 3 of a series of blogs about kindness. Please see parts 1 and 2 here] When I began writing these posts I kind of thought this would have been one of my ‘here are my random thoughts … Continue reading
A thing I’ve been listening to, and you should listen to too: Scroobius Pip and Distraction Pieces Podcast
So while I’ve been getting steadily more and more pregnant I’ve been finding it a bit difficult to do things. However, that has meant that I have had a lot more time on my hands to sit in the bath … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, creative work, creativity, Inspiration, listening
Tagged Inspiration, podcasts you should listen to, Scroobius Pip
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2019: Thinking about Now or Never Times (part two)
In my last blog I wrote a bit about what I had been doing last year, which apart from being pregnant and moving house twice, turned out not to amount to much. However in this past year, where I’ve been … Continue reading
2019: Thinking about Now or Never Times (Part one)
Lots of people over the last few days have done a kind of ’round up’ of 2019 in which they talk about highlights and low lights. I didn’t actually blog for the majority of 2019, taking an unplanned break due … Continue reading
Posted in creative work, creativity, infertility, Living in London, pregnancy, wellbeing
Tagged 2019, blogging, creativity, I'm so fucking tired, ivf, pregnancy, Pregnancy after IVF
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New story board attempt.
It’s been a while since I’ve had time to sit down and draw. After we moved and adopted the cats it’s taken a bit of time to settle in to doing creative things with paper. I’ve now been through a … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, creative work, documentary film making
Tagged animated documentary, animation, Art, art project, artist, paper cut animation, paper cut art, storyboard, storytelling
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DIY Sould repair and ‘Womb Art’ – does anyone really want to see that?
I think I have been putting off posting this for quite some time because I’m really not sure who would want to see this kind of thing. I had been working on a little series of pieces called DIY soul … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, creative work, infertility
Tagged Art, artist, infertility, infertility art, living with infertility, paper art, papercutting, uterus, uterus art, womb art
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Blogging – taking some down time
Things aren’t often noisy over here on Magpie, but they’ve been a bit quieter than usual. I’ve been having a bit of an emotional slump, which I think are related to the hormone injections I’ve been having as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, creative work, infertility, wellbeing
Tagged Art, Craft, creativity, down time, experiments with colour, Inspiration, new materials, paper cutting, wellbeing
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More stuff on Lionel Shriver
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago about Lionel Shriver and her objection to the new diversity policy of Random House. Quite a few other more well read people than me also wrote about it, and came to similar … Continue reading
