When creating feels heavy, I try to remember that tending to my space is still part of the work.

Small, quiet steps count … even on the slow days.

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#creativeprocess #artistlife #slowcreativity #creativeburnout

🐝 Bees, birds, petals, and cozy colors…
September’s box is like wrapping up in a creative blanket.
📦 26 beads – curated to spark joy
🎁 Only $26.99 – link in bio

#beading #kraftikashop #cbebeadbox #czechbeads #autumninspired #fallcrafts #slowcreativity

Portuairk, West Ardnamurchan.

“What matters is not what is new, but what endures.”

Read the 8th instalment in my inspired writing & photography series:

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#Resilience #CroftingTradition #EkphrasticScotland #SpioradAirdNamMurchan #ArdnamurchanSpirit #DeepTime #SlowCreativity #MEMDonaldson

Sometimes “working on the novel” looks like:
• thrifted emotional support water bottle
• floral cover-up
• my favorite sunglasses
•& a fast, weird good book (One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence)

Taking time to breathe and refill the well.

#writinglife #slowcreativity #cozycreative #newmexicovibes

I make art for the quiet moments
the breath before a brushstroke,
the pause between two lines of a poem.
That’s where the truth lives.
That’s where I listen.

#ThePaintedWord #poetry #artlife #slowcreativity

A haiku for anyone who needs to take a few moments today:

a field sleeps soundly
not a footstep to be found
sometimes a pause is

#haiku #poetry #slowcreativity #rest #timetothink

The pressure to create isn’t your compass - it’s your cage. Your greatest work emerges not when you chase expectations, but when you allow yourself to simply be in the process. 
 
✨ When we release the “should,” we rediscover the “could.” 

#creativejourney #createwithoutfear #slowcreativity

A screenshot of a note that says: Things I would prefer to be today: A worm. A steamed gyoza. A Ghibli soot ball. A lily pad with a small frog on it. A lush patch of shady grass. Specifically the worm from Labyrinth. A helium balloon that has escaped the funfair and is heading for the clouds. Oh yeah definitely a cloud. A giant squid. That one floorboard above the heating pipe that's always warm.

It's officially hibernation time, right?

If you are also feeling a little bit like fuck-this-hustle-culture-shit then you're very welcome to join me in my writing cave... fixioning.substack.com/p/why-writin...

#SlowCreativity #Writing