Meet The Maker - Day 6 - Shop Small

 Today's is the last day of Meet The Maker and the prompt is "Shop Small".

Supporting small businesses whether it's online or local is such a lovely thing and feeling...all of us small makers are just trying to make the world a smidge lovelier with our creativity and goodness knows the world

can use a bit of extra lovely lately!!

Every single order I get, no matter how big or small I do a happy dance

and get a burble of happiness in my tum.

I appreciate every single one so much.

It means the world that someone wants to spend their hard earned money

on my work and it also acknowledges my unique skills, training & hard work too.

Even if you can't buy from small businesses right now,

because let's face it, sometimes that just isn't possible,

there are still great ways that you can help us small indie businesses.

You can like our posts and I always encourage people to not just heart a post but to leave comments too....

....Reposting our work or things that you have bought from us on all or any of your social media platforms is one of the biggest ways you can help us out.

Saving our posts helps us get higher IG rankings which is a tricky beast!

and well just sharing our work & names with your family & friends

is a wonderful way to help us get our work in front of new eyes. 

Also signing up for our newsletters

and encouraging friends and family to check out our work is all super helpful. Any and all of these actions are a wonderful way to help us indie businesses out but are also great reminder to us to that someone out there is indeed paying attention and liking what we're working so hard on and in many ways that is just as important as the sales cause goodness knows we need cheerleaders, especially today in these turbulent uncertain scary & unprecedented times!

Meet The Maker - Day 4 - Silver Linings

 Today's Meet The Maker Prompt is 'SILVER LININGS'.

This one is easy cause I am a Silver Linings kind of person.

I live with two neurological diseases and a disease of the nervous system

but despite the chronic pain that's constantly ravaging and testing my body, finding Silver Linings is essential to maintaining a positive mental attitude

through the storms.  It might be something small like "Hmmm okay I might feel like I was run over by a truck" today BUT at least I have a wonderful honey who loves making me wonderful healthy meals to help me get through and that fills my heart. Or maybe I am stuck in bed feeling like my head is going to explode BUT all of the bunnies are eating and I can hear them eating and that's one of the best sounds in the world, it makes me smile right through the pain.

Or perhaps it's a really bad fibro flare day

and it's one of those days where it feels like it's taking effort just to breathe!

BUT I've got all of the Whimsical Colourful Joyful Artwork

I know I will get back to the second I feel better and that's surely a Silver Lining.

 

I think too in this unpredictable and scary time with the pandemic

Silver Linings can be found all around if we really look hard enough.

I have been latching onto the extra uninterrupted time at home

with my family, that's been extra heavenly.

And I have been feeling so very grateful to all of you lovely souls

who are supporting us Indie businesses...

especially all of you who have understood that I needed to shut down

my online shop during this turbulent awful last year with our cancer fight

but you still showed much needed support with DMs

and emails asking after and buying original work, which has been amazing,

that has truly been a HUGE Silver Lining in all of this unstable upset.

Thank You 💖 SO much.