Firstly let’s welcome our five ! New members @Helen Lawrence @Helen Michelle @Bethany Elle @Ana P. @Danielle L 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Also thank you @Caroline Fransz for referring i appreciate you taking the time 💜 I genuinely can’t believe how much this community has grown. 🌱 Over the last six months, I’ve learnt so much—not just creatively, but about people, connection, and what can happen when we create a space where everyone feels welcome. 🥰🙌🏻 You’ve been here cheering me on, encouraging one another, sharing your work, your stories, your victories, and even the days that felt a little harder. Watching this community champion each other has been one of the greatest joys of my year. ❤️✨ Smidgen of Calm has become something so much more than I ever imagined. It really does feel like a little pocket of safety on the internet, and that’s because of every single one of you. Thank you for believing in this little idea. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for making this such a kind, creative, and genuinely special place. Here’s to the next adventure together. 💜✨

This weekend I finally got around to editing my visit to The Box in Plymouth. 🥳🥳🥳 For those who don’t know, I studied Illustration and Printmaking at the University of Plymouth, so spending time in the city always feels a little nostalgic. Plymouth is a place shaped by the sea, and you can feel that maritime connection woven throughout the museum and galleries. 🙌🏻 What I loved most wasn’t any one exhibit. It was the feeling of the place. The quiet hum of people exploring, the giant etched artwork stretching across the wall, the stories waiting around every corner, and that gentle reminder that creativity doesn’t always come from making. Sometimes creativity comes from looking.👀 From noticing. From filling your cultural cup so that later, when you sit down with a sketchbook, journal, camera or paintbrush, you have something new to pour out. 🙌🏻💜 I’d love to know… where do you go when you need a little creative refill? ☕🎨 Smidgen of Calm really does feel like a little pocket of safety on the internet, and I’m grateful we get to share these little adventures together. ❤️ https://youtu.be/HXwlQU7ZQmA?is=LMwNHgYMGpfGI2GB

I am very excited to welcome @Agnes Ryckman to our community I have a feeling you will love it here 🙌🏻❤️

The sun has been shining here today, so I made the most of it and spent some time sitting outside doing my thing 🎨 I finally completed my little Flowers from the Garden concertina book. It started as a simple experiment with my water-soluble oil pastels, but I think it turned out rather well in the end 👌 I also spent some time adding pages to my junk journal and writing a little story to empty my brain. It’s always fascinating what finds its way onto the page. Apparently, today’s theme was having no energy 🙈 The funny thing is, I do have energy. I’m just learning that there’s a difference between having energy and spending it wisely. Today felt like one of those days where I used it in the right way — creating, sitting in the sunshine, and giving my thoughts somewhere to go. So now I’m curious… ✨ What are you spending your good energy on today? And if your energy feels a little low, what is one thing you can stop spending it on? 🤔

Some days the exhaustion catches up with me a little more than others. My body is sore and tired, but I often call it the “payment for memories made” and time well spent with the people I love. 💜 Living with chronic health conditions means that even joy can come with a little aftermath 🙈 A lovely weekend, travelling, laughing, long conversations, hugs, adventures… they all leave footprints behind in my body for a while afterwards. 🐾 So if I’ve been a little quieter than usual, I’m simply recharging my batteries so I can come back and give things my whole heart again. 🙌🏻❤️ I think there’s something important in allowing ourselves rest without guilt. Rest is not falling behind. It’s part of continuing. 🌱 So today I’m asking you this… How do you recharge when life, people or even beautiful memories leave you feeling a little worn out? 🌿