I've never considered myself one of those 'creative types' and yet in the past few years, that's what I've been called, much to my amusement. I suspect years of working in industry dulled my creative streak until I started blogging and discovered photography, a subject I've touched on before in this post and which many of…
A decade ago I ran an online shop. In hindsight, it was a little ahead of its time, selling handmade, locally sourced gifts, the kind you find these days on notonthehighstreet.com. It was a part time endeavour, which I dedicated my evenings to while working full time during the day. It was also a labour…
Since my teenage days, I've never really considered myself a creative person. I couldn't draw to save myself (truly, I was hopeless) and I always looked on with envy at those who could just grab a pencil and flow with it over the paper, creating something artistic with what seemed like no effort at all. Indeed,…
