Author name: Lindsay

How to make birthday streamers, colourful paper streamers hung up to decorate a room for a birthday.

September is my birthday month! Normally this is an occasion I shy away from, I don’t plan anything, I don’t expect anything, yet I maintain that I have the right to become royally peeved if those close to me don’t do anything special for it. There’s a long line of issues there, I know that, […]

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How to mould your body using air drying clay, using creativity to help with body image.

My heart began racing, pounding in my chest, my eyes darted for the exits and in my head I began to think of 1001 reasons why I wouldn’t be able to attend the next meeting. The following announcement at a CWS Networking meeting majorly triggered my body image anxiety: Such an innocent announcement, an exciting

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Women's world cup 2023 opening title hand image for the BBC coverage. Hand drawn image of lots of hands celebrating and holding up the world cup trophy.

About BBC Sport Women’s World Cup Titles Artwork Four years ago our household was taken over by football fever for the first time ever as we watched the magnificent Women’s World Cup in 2019. Sure, it wasn’t England’s year that time round however our semi final win and witnessing the incredible talent on the pitches

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Line drawing of a person walking through a phone which is bursting with nature as an encouragement to go outside and explore the great outdoors.

Five tips on how to get outside each day, and boost your creativity along the way. With the world closing in around me, a pressure building in my head and my heart, I needed to break free, I wanted to break free. This week had been too much, far too much for me to cope.

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Father's Day Pancake recipe

Back in lockdown #3 we decided that if we couldn’t travel the world then we’d bring the world to us. Each week we journeyed across the globe in food form, one week we visited France, then Brazil and Germany, Japan and India, and many more. It was a lot of fun, we discovered new family

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Hand with white lines of electricity coming out of the pointed finger.

Creativity is a powerful tool, more than that, it is a powerful healer that’s within all of us. Last month I had the privilege of listening to Carla Raads speak at a networking event. Carla is an incredibly talented artist who uses her body and fingers to paint emotionally charged art work. Mostly sky and

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About Got Your Ticket For the second summer in a row, I was commissioned to write, create, design and produce this huge seasonal special aimed at 5-11 year olds for Blackburn Diocese Board of Education. As always, it was a great joy and I hope that joy shows in what has been created. Brief A

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Big Summer Holiday Bucket List advertisement featuring a bucket and spade and six roundels which link to the six activity themes within the resource.

About Big Summer Holiday Bucket List ROOTs on the Web commissioned me to create all the visuals for their Big Summer Holiday Bucket List, a summer holiday club resource for those who work with children aged 5-11 during the summer holidays. This was alongside writing the material for the resource as well. It was an

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A few Sunday’s ago it was forest church, this is my favourite church service ever, the whole thing is done outside and you get to not only spend time in nature but learn about it too. It is such a great way to connect in with the world around us. This particular Sunday I felt

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In the spirit of being fully transparent I could not call this a Vegan Easter Cheesecake because I put some milk and white chocolate sprinkles on top. The moment I did that my beautiful, delicious bake became almost Vegan. The good news is if you’re looking for a Vegan Easter Cheesecake recipe then this is

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