When you allow curiosity to lead and gently set perfection aside, something shifts in the way you create. You stop tightening up. Your hand moves more freely. Ideas arrive without being forced. 💜🫶🏻 Perfection asks you to prove something. Curiosity simply asks you to notice. When you create from curiosity, your workflow softens and improves at the same time. You spend less energy correcting and more energy exploring. You move forward instead of getting stuck. What once felt heavy begins to feel fluid again. I’m sharing this from a place of lived experience. I’ve been working on myself and my creative workflow for a long time, and what I keep coming back to is this: curiosity moves us forward, perfection slows us down. Try approaching your next creative session with the question “What happens if…?” rather than “Is this good enough?” You may be surprised how much easier it becomes to keep going and how much more like you the work feels. ❤️💜

Journaling has become one of the quiet anchors of my wellbeing. It’s such a simple act pen to paper but it creates space for thoughts that otherwise stay tangled in our heads. 🧠 When we journal, we give our minds somewhere safe to land. You can choose to focus on one thing you want to mentally work through, gently unpacking it line by line. Or you can let the page hold everything small observations, worries, ideas, gratitude, memories. There’s no right structure. The power is in the honesty. 🥰🫶🏻 Over time, journaling helps us notice patterns, release pressure, and understand ourselves with more compassion. It’s not about writing beautifully. It’s about creating a steady conversation with yourself that supports your wellbeing. If you’re not sure where to begin, start small. One page. One thought. One honest moment. That’s enough.❤️🫶🏻❤️

Let me introduce you to our new community mascot Smidgen the Pigeon 🙌🏻🫶🏻🙌🏻🥰

I have a little plan forming over here and I wanted to share it with you because I am honestly really excited. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I am starting something new called The Smidgen Post. It is a monthly print club where I will send a signed piece of my artwork straight to your door. Sometimes it will be a painting, sometimes an etching or mixed media piece. I like the idea that every envelope carries a little surprise and a glimpse into whatever I am exploring creatively that month.. I have chosen the 1st of March to send out the very first Smidgen Post. It would have been my Dad’s birthday. He passed away last year 😢 and beginning this little print club on that day feels like a way of carrying something forward. Creativity, memory and the things that connect us. 🙏🏼🥰 If it feels like something you would enjoy being part of, I will be offering the first places at a gentle founding member price. That price will always stay the same as a thank you for believing in me and supporting this little idea right at the beginning.🥰🙏🏼 I will let you know how you can register in the next few days 🥰📋 Thanks for reading Kate

Show me one thing you’ve had in your creative arsenal for ages but never get round to using. I’ll go first… Here’s my pack of gold and copper leaf that I’ve had for At least a year and I’ve not even opened it 🙈 Let’s see if this little exercise gets us motivated to finally use some of the beautiful things we’ve got stashed away! ❤️🥰❤️