Dear AALL & Create Followers I hope you are all staying sane and safe and finding fun in your days. We are hearing about the things that many of you are doing to fill the extra time that so many people have at home right now. After this period is over there will be lots of beautifully redecorated houses while gardens around the world will never have looked so good! People are also learning to cook new things, including many people baking their own bread. For our followers, crafting and creating art is bound to be high up on that list and in this time of trying new things some of you are stretching and challenging yourselves and attempting new techniques and new kinds of project that you have
Dear AALL & Create Followers I hope you are all staying safe and well at this time. During this time of lockdown, many of us are finding new ways to keep in touch the friends that we see regularly. We all need to feel connected and phone calls, emails, electronic messages and video links are all great ways to keep our connections going and to check in on how each other is doing. The writer C.S. Lewis said; “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” It can be like that for us in the arts and crafts world when we meet people who share our passion for our hobby. We can foster all sorts of different kinds of friendships with
Dear AALL & Create Followers I hope you are all staying safe and finding plenty of moment of happiness in your days. Many of our followers in the UK will have taken part in the applause on the streets for the NHS workers and other essential workers at this time. A couple of years ago we celebrated the NHS's 70th anniversary and to mark that event the UK's Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance launched a project called Seventy Stories. They collected people's own stories which represent personal experiences of the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on their own health and wellbeing. Many of us in this community have our own stories to tell about how our hobby has helped us and the proj
Dear AALL & Create Followers I hope you are all staying safe and well at this time. In this time of physical isolation for many we have to find ways to counteract those feelings of isolation and reinforce our connections with our community, whether that is your local community or a community of interest, like the crafting community and the broader AALL & Create family. Being part of a community is all about belonging and we are happy to belong to a community based on creativity. A shared sense of purpose in creating art that is both beautiful and meaningful is a powerful thing. Tapping in to that community is a great way to de-stress and top up happiness levels and to know that you belong. W
Dear AALL & Create Followers I hope you are all keeping well and perhaps benefitting from some touches of spring sunshine through your window or in your gardens. Well what an exciting day it has been! Our ODS One Day Special on Hochanda TV yesterday has gone really well. It has been a bit different from normal with the current constraints but it has all worked well and it was a joy to watch Leonie Pujol doing her stuffin the studio! THANK YOU! We are feeling very grateful to you all; so many of you have tuned in, given feedback and made orders for the lovely products. We will be sending them out to you from today and we hope you will all enjoy using them to create lovely things! So we have
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