BodyMind Creative Studio

05/12/2025

Opening event tonight between 5-8pm for this group show I am in with .s.fine.art .muise.art and come say hello and maybe find a Christmas Gift.

02/12/2025

Set up is almost complete for our “Animalia” exhibition Opening event is on Saturday, Dec. 6 starting at 5 pm. The exhibition is on until Dec 24th.

27/11/2025

A few more fish hot from the kiln for the Animalia exhibition that opens soon. Getting excited for our set up day next week.

21/11/2025

❤️this. Was in my feed due to algorithms.

18/11/2025

Pukeko.

17/11/2025

Learning to live with chronic conditions is difficult. This blog beautifully captures how to build a different relationship with our bodies that we may feel have let us down. Have a read❤️

Loving your body while living with chronic illness is complicated and often overwhelming. This post breaks down practical, realistic ways to rebuild body acceptance when your body feels unfamiliar or unpredictable. From reconnecting with yourself gently to using photography as a tool for self-compas

16/11/2025

Today’s crochet. A little black backed seagull.

15/11/2025

This big baby just came home with me to finish drying. I will wait until I have my kiln liscence and can fire it on my own. This will work out much cheaper than doing it through a club firing. It will take quite some time to dry still anyway. Plus I had to try and fix that crack on the top.

14/11/2025

Finished this Ruru with uprecycled yarn yesterday. It is probably twice the size of a real one😂

09/11/2025

A wonderful show at the Portrait Gallery in Wellington. Painting self-portraits can be a very powerful and therapeutic practice.

09/11/2025

The blanket of granny squares depicting the effect my daily pain level has on my ability to function like a person not living with a chronic condition is all assembled. Thinking about the border and backing now. Purple is the official colour for migraine awareness, so I used that to connect the bits and fill in the gaps.

06/11/2025

Front and back (to show the title) of the first try at making a pillow out of clay. It looks cool, but I am going to try again to see if I can refine it a bit. It seems quite timely to have this come out of the kiln right when I am struggling to get an appointment for my treatment that I fly up to Auckland every three months to get. I was told that the clinic was full for the month, eventhough I am due for the treatment on the 20th. Now I will have to wait until sometime in December, meaning quite a few weeks overdue. Not looking forward to having to live with more pain and meds. Plus the December clinic isn’t a sure thing so it could be I have to wait until January! Not going to be a good Christmas if that happens. This is what happens when there is only one doctor in the whole country with limited public health spots for treatment🙄Even if I went private I would have limited access to this particular treatment and then I would be paying for flights to Auckland and the private charge every three months. 😞