Creativity

Soft watercolour illustration of Susan making a floral butterfly card at a bright craft desk, surrounded by colouring pencils, diamond painting supplies and creative materials.

New Here? Start Here: Your Roadmap to Living Creatively with Fibro is the perfect place to begin.

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What is Creativity? It's more than being artistic

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Creativity is a broad topic as discussed in the post above. It means two distinct things to me. Both the abstract idea of creativity and the practice of crafting. It is my intention to both share the importance of being creative when you live with a chronic illness and also to showcase my creative projects.

Get Started With Crafts

Three handmade greeting cards arranged in a fan, showcasing different card making styles including a fish bowl, cosy cottage and floral birthday design.

Beginner’s Guide to Cardmaking

Discover how to get started with cardmaking, from choosing your first tools to finding inspiration. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, I share practical advice, budget-friendly tips and why cardmaking is such a rewarding hobby for people living with Fibromyalgia.

Collection of scattered Polaroid-style photos on a pastel chevron background with washi tape – perfect visual introduction to starting digital scrapbooking layouts and memory keeping.

An Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking

Discover how digital scrapbooking can bring your photos, creative projects and family history to life. I explain the different styles, the software I recommend and why this flexible hobby is perfect for documenting your own journey.

Coloured fantasy illustrations: gothic witch, floral fairy & steampunk lady on purple background.

Complete Adult Colouring Beginners Guide (Updated)

I have fallen in love, and I think you might too! Here is my adult colouring beginners guide to get you started. Can I tempt you to give it a try?

Three diamond paintings: blue owl with mushrooms, autumn landscape & glowing lighthouse on purple background.

Diamond Painting for Spoonies

My new craft room saw the arrival of a new craft, let me explain why Diamond Painting is a great hobby for Fibro Warriors and spoonies.

Explore My Crafting

Browse my finished projects and click through to read how I created them, what I learned and my Fibro Perspective.

Soft watercolour illustration of a handmade floral card with a butterfly embellishment, surrounded by patterned papers, ribbon, scissors and cardmaking tools.

Card Making

Card making was the first creative hobby I began.

Soft watercolour illustration of a floral and butterfly diamond painting in progress, with colourful drills, a tray and diamond painting pen arranged around the canvas.

Diamond Painting

Diamond Painting can be a very relaxing hobby.

Soft watercolour illustration of an open floral colouring book with coloured pencils, showing one page partly coloured and the other ready to be completed.

Adult Colouring

Why not explore the relaxing hobby of adult colouring?