How exciting! This is my first attempt at blogging and I’m really looking forward to it. I have often wondered if I could have a go and have finally plucked up the courage to give it a go. So if anybody actually finds themselves reading this, please be gentle!

So, who am I? To be honest I don’t know. This is part of the reason I have decided to begin writing. So that I can learn more about myself. I am a mother of five wonderful children of varying ages from 18 to 4 year old twins. I am immensely proud of my no so little family and what we have achieved over the years. I am also a midwife and although I have had my moments I love my job and feel very privileged to be able to welcome new people and new mothers into the world every day. I am also married to the most wonderful man in the world who happened to be my favourite teenage crush and best friend. But who am I without all of this… I don’t know as I have never explored myself as a person. There has always been someone around, I went from living with my parents as a 17 year old, to living with my now husband and pregnant at 18 years old. I have never been alone or had time to just be me as an adult.

I have recently begun exploring my creativity in an effort to explore these feelings and discover more about myself. I find that art helps me to dig deep into my inner feelings without it being too traumatic. Call it therapy if you want. Whatever it is, it feels deep and personal and all about me. So much that sometimes I feel like I can’t show people what I have created and keep it hidden away as it is too personal and exposing. This is what this blog is hopefully going to be for, to expose the inner me and expose my brushes with creativity that allow me to express my deepest, inner feelings.

I am not an artist, am a dabbler. I love to draw, paint, knit, crochet, journal, scrapbook…. Anything I can get my hands on really! I am not promising great artworks or amazing enlightenment. Just a little glimpse of what I love about the world and what I can manage to create as an amateur who just lets the paint flow whenever I get a peaceful moment… Which are few and far between in a busy house with lots of noisy children!

Anyway that’s it for now… See you soon!

I will leave you with some lovely images of my latest creation.