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Iā€™m Joanne ā€” designer, maker, and mindful stitching guide. Through courses, wearable art, and handmade designs, I help women slow down, reconnect with their creativity, and find calm through their own two hands.
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09/10/2026

Iā€™m becoming less interested in trying to think my way to every answer.
Sometimes I need to do something first.
Paint.
Stitch.
Draw.
Try a color.
Make something badly.
Then notice:
Did I lose track of time?
Did I feel lighter afterward?
Did I want to keep going?
Did I want to come back tomorrow?
That tells me something.
This is why creativity has become part of how Iā€™m answering:
What do I want now?
Not because every creative experiment becomes something important.
Because it gives me information.

What makes you want to come back and do it again?

09/08/2026

Iā€™ve become interested in noticing what Iā€™m drawn to before I explain it away.
Color is one of the easiest places to practice that.
Which one catches my eye?
Which one do I keep picking up?
Which one makes me feel something?
I donā€™t have to decide what the color is ā€œsupposedā€ to mean.
I can simply notice:
I want more of that.
Sometimes knowing what you want starts with something that small.

What color keeps finding you lately?

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09/07/2026

I donā€™t think we suddenly lose touch with what we want.
It happens quietly.
We get very good at asking:
What needs to be done?
What makes sense?
What does everyone else need?
Whatā€™s practical?
And our own preferences can get a little harder to hear.
So Iā€™m starting smaller.
What do I want a little more of right now?
Mine: creativity.
Yours?I donā€™t think we suddenly lose touch with what we want.
It happens quietly.
We get very good at asking:
What needs to be done?
What makes sense?
What does everyone else need?
Whatā€™s practical?
And our own preferences can get a little harder to hear.
So Iā€™m starting smaller.
What do I want a little more of right now?
Mine: creativity.
Yours?

Comment one word: MORE ______


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09/06/2026

If youā€™ve been asking yourself:

Who am I now? What do I even want anymore?

You may be starting with a question thatā€™s simply too big.

Iā€™ve been thinking about three much smaller places to begin.

1. Notice what you miss.
Not necessarily a person or a place. Maybe you miss making things, traveling, wearing color, learning, laughing more, or having time that belongs only to you.

2. Follow your curiosity.
You donā€™t need to know where it will lead. Curiosity is enough reason to move a little closer.

3. Make something.
Paint. Sew. Draw. Garden. Cook. Arrange flowers. Try something with your hands.

Because when we create, we start noticing our preferences again.

I like this.
I want more of this.
That feels like me.

And sometimes those tiny clues tell us far more than trying to answer:

ā€œWhat am I supposed to do with the rest of my life?ā€

Which one feels most important to you right now?

MISS, CURIOSITY or CREATE?

09/05/2026

Trying to figure out what you want after 50 can become a project all by itself.

We think we need to sit down and come up with THE answer.

What do I want to do next?
Who am I now?
What should this next chapter look like?

Those are enormous questions.

And sometimes they keep us thinking instead of living.

Iā€™m beginning to believe we can start much smaller.

Follow something that interests you.

Try something youā€™ve been curious about.

Make something just because you want to.

Then notice what happens.

Did it energize you?
Did you lose track of time?
Did you want to do it again?

You donā€™t have to know exactly where something is leading before you begin.

Sometimes doing comes before knowing.

Which one are you doing right now: 1, 2, or 3?

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09/03/2026

This is becoming one of my favorite questions:
What is pulling me?
Not:
Is it productive?
Can I sell it?
Am I good at it?
Where will this lead?
Just:
Am I curious?
Those tiny pulls may be giving us more information than we realize.

Save this for the next time you feel like you ā€œshouldā€ have it figured out

09/02/2026

Maybe it wasnā€™t one big moment.
Maybe it happened in tiny increments.
Being practical.
Being responsible.
Being busy.
Choosing what worked.
Choosing what everyone else needed.
Until one day you look around and wonder:
Where am I in all of this?
Iā€™ve become fascinated by the small ways we can begin noticing ourselves again.
What we wear is one of them

Has this happened to you?

09/01/2026

There is such a difference between being lost and being disconnected.
Lost makes it sound as though somewhere along the way we misplaced ourselves.
Iā€™m beginning to think thatā€™s not what happens at all.
We become very good at listening outward.
What does everyone need?
What should I do?
What makes sense?
And eventually that quieter question can become difficult to hear:
What do I want?
Thatā€™s one of the questions Iā€™m exploring here.
Not through five-year plans.
Through color, creativity, curiosity and small choices.
What part of yourself would you like a little more of again?

09/01/2026

If youā€™re over 50 and youā€™ve found yourself wondering:
What do I even want anymore?
I want to try something different this September.
Instead of sitting around trying to THINK our way to the answer, letā€™s experiment.
Iā€™ve created More-of-Me September: 30 tiny experiments to discover what you want more of.
Nothing complicated.
Make something.
Go somewhere new.
Wear a color you love.
Sit somewhere beautiful.
Call someone you miss.
Try something just because it sounds interesting.
And then comes the important part:
NOTICE.
Did that give me energy?
Did I enjoy it?
Did I feel more like myself?
Would I like more of that?
You donā€™t have to complete all 30.
Do them in order. Jump around. Skip some.
There are no gold stars for finishing. šŸ˜„
Weā€™re gathering clues.
Comment BINGO and Iā€™ll send you the printable card.

08/30/2026

Iā€™ve been working with the Art of Manifesting, using drawing as a way to explore an intention.

This one is my Horn of Plenty.

My intention was simple:

Abundance of everything.

Not just money or things.

Abundance of creativity.
Abundance of ideas.
Abundance of love and friendship.
Abundance of experiences.
Abundance of opportunities.
Abundance of beauty.
Abundance of time spent doing what makes me feel alive.

As I drew, I didnā€™t try to decide exactly what any of that abundance should look like.

I just kept filling the page.

Lines connecting to other lines.
Shapes growing inside shapes.
Flowers, eyes, spirals, strange little creatures and things I couldnā€™t quite name.

And maybe thatā€™s part of the practice.

Instead of saying, ā€œThis is exactly what I want my life to look like,ā€ Iā€™m setting the intention and leaving some room for life to surprise me.

At this stage of life, Iā€™m becoming much more interested in that question:

What would an abundant life mean to me now?

Not someone elseā€™s version.

Mine.

And Iā€™m curiousā€¦

If you were creating your own Horn of Plenty, what would you want it overflowing with? šŸŽØ

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