Thursday, February 04, 2021

Create || My New Book! 50 Boredom Busting Ideas...


This lockdown has been hard. Hard! I could feel my mental health spiralling before it started, I quit my job for some emergency self care and got to working from home again, giving myself the time I need to feel right again. Within a couple of weeks everything felt lighter, the chores of daily life had lessened and I had more time to make plans, sort the daily chores and best of all, get creative!

Not long after though, lock down struck again and this one has been oh so painful compared to the first one. This time I had no paycheck while I stayed home so I have to work, the kids have proper school work to do, it's Winter so no fun garden time or 'lessons' outside. As well as all that there's the added feeling of plain hopelessness that comes with this virus and how things are dragging out. The first time we had hope, this time it just feels never ending.

Instead of falling into my usual trap of feeling hemmed in, anxious and hopeless though, I've been putting my mental health as priority. I'm in a good place and I don't want to leave it, so for me that means having things to focus on, giving myself time for me and my projects and getting creative in some way.

As a project I set myself a task of starting a kids book and I never thought I'd finish, but here we are with it now live on Amazon and I'm super happy with how it's turned out!!

This one is called '50 Boredom Busting Ideas For Cool Kids' and contains 50 illustrated pages with ideas, but also drawing challenges and pages for planning, making lists, sketching and writing. The ideas are things like fruit prints, scavenger hunt, pond dipping, hand drawing, making up raps, learning a dance routine, making a news show and lots more. The drawing challenges have things like a cat policeman, hairy mermaid, family of peas. So lots to choose from and hopefully lots of ideas to keep kids busy (and parents sane!) This lock down.





The book is just so colourful and happy and it makes me feel great now I have a hard copy in my hands! It's a weird feeling when you're someone that beats yourself down so often to feel proud of yourself, but I am. 



If you'd like a look on Amazon, you can find it by clicking here!