Bethany Knight 🚢

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You don’t need talent or time. Just five minutes.

Let your hands wander. Let your brain breathe. Let the thread lead you.

Ariadne’s Basket will be waiting.

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This is creative self-care for when you have nothing left to give.

Tactile. Gentle. Restorative. It doesn’t need to be productive to matter.

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Some ideas for themed baskets:

• Process Art – liquid watercolours, pipettes, masking tape
• Textiles – fabric scraps, floss, felt
• Collage – old mags, washi tape, glue stick
• Nature – leaves, twigs, ink pens for tracing

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The idea is simple: Make a basket of mess.

No outcome, no rules, no pressure to “make art.” Just supplies that make you want to touch them.

Leave it where you’ll see it.

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I call it Ariadne’s Basket, because it sparks the creativity that leads me out of the maze.

Out of overstimulation.

Out of decision fatigue.

Out of that tangled, end-of-day fog.

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Most evenings, I reach for a basket of fabric scraps, thread, and little bits of ribbon and twine.

It’s not tidy. It’s not curated. It’s not aesthetic.

But it’s magic.

The 3 People Who Have Influenced Me Most In Making Every Day More Creative I’ve been on a creativity quest for a while now, always looking for ways to slide creativity into slivers of time in my day.

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Trash Writing - a fail safe way to break free of your rut and kickstart your writing 3x5x20 - This is my morning hack, but I a now finding I can use it whenever I find my creativity is

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I definitely need to train myself to capture ideas in *one place* rather than half a dozen different lists!

I had piano lessons from my Grandma. I could play most things tolerably well with one hand or the other, but combining the two resulted in disaster!!

I loved this piece. My great-aunt is still strong and healthy at 99, and I very much intend to follow in her footsteps.

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When Your Brain Has Other Plans: 9 Ways Mental Health Secretly Reshapes Creative Productivity From burst-and-crash cycles to perfectionist paralysis: how depression, anxiety, ADHD, etc redefine what “getting things done” means.

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This one's right up my street, definitely going over to Substack to have a poke around there.

I like this metaphor a lot, it's a helpful lens to look through. I am definitely travelling with a boot full of other people's junk and a hole in my fuel tank!

This is fascinating. I'm the non-musical grandchild of a very musical grandmother, & I loved how she talked about music. She definitely saw music in very visual terms as well.

She worked with disabled people in residential 'schools' for years, & her practice flowed between music & visual art.

Get your 16-year-old self to write you a report card ... and then act on it.

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I'm hoping my future self will enjoy the work I'm putting in right now.

I love this idea. I might put a basket of art supplies in our local LFL and see if it catches on.

I wish I could say I was surprised, but given that LLMs are basing their knowledge off what's out there in the world already, I guess this makes sense.

Ugh.

No arguments from me!

3 Tips To Make Your Day Less Rushed So You Can Be A More Chilled Parent & Feel Less Overwhelmed Time optimism is screwing you over.

Time optimism might be screwing you over. Here are my three top tips to tackle it.

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I love that my feed is full of all these first posts this morning!

Congratulations on getting started!! 🎊

Yes to all of this! Looking forward to following this journey.

I love this.

Writing can be so incredibly powerful.

I'm waiting for a poem made entirely of questionable seafaring puns and analogies!

A beautiful poem for this beautiful Sunday morning. Enjoy.

Interesting that AI is relatively far down that list at the moment. It's definitely more of a priority for me, personally, than Smart Home stuff.

Maybe it's time to do a ten-book challenge then!

Yes, I was excited to see them pop up yesterday, sent me back down the rabbit hole of their Medium account.