It's all about change. I think this is a wake up call for us all. We need to change our ways, we need to think about each other a lot more and start to appreciate who we are and the wonderful things we are capable of. It's not all about stuff, having stuff, looking for more stuff, feeling like we need stuff to be accepted or stay up-to-date.

We need to start looking at how we shop and what we shop for, what our expectations are and how we assess what is necessary and what is nice to have. The necessary stuff is what keeps are alive, keeps us functioning, happy and healthy. The other stuff are luxuries, it's all just stuff that clutters our lives and makes us feel that we need to have in order to fit in with trends and the false hopes of acceptance.

I make the things I make because I love making. I'd quite happily make these things and simply give them away if I didn't need to make a living in order to keep making. It's a vicious circle, I make in order to satisfy my own personal need to be creative, but the underlying need is that my makes are necessary for me to earn a living. I wish I could just give my lovely things away to people, to see them smile when they receives something that they don't necessarily need but it's nice to have and they know it's been made with passion, care and attention.

What a wonderful world we would have if after all of this, we start to appreciate what's really important in our lives on this amazing planet. Wouldn't it be great if we really didn't care what the latest hot celebrity was wearing or where she/he got her outfit. They didn't buy it, it was given to them by a huge fashion brand who has basically paid them to wear it. It's advertising that we all get sucked into and made to believe it's what we need. We don't!

Wouldn't it be refreshing if our governments started caring about all the people in their respective countries, instead of only those who make the big corporations tick over and basically line the pockets of the already wealthy. Everyone contributes to making our world function, why are so many overlooked and literally left to rot on the street.

I'm tired of this world as it is, I don't go out much these days (even less at the moment obviously) because I feel so disenfranchised from what the world has become. People don't care for each other anymore, they don't appreciate creativity, they don't accept that other people work hard for them to have the luxuries and pleasures that they take for granted on a daily basis.

I recently set up a new Facebook group and Instagram account called  'I created this'. It's all about sharing your creativity with the world. Those of us who sit on our sofas at night in front of the telly with knitting needles or a crochet hook, bent over a bench in a garage crafting something from a piece of wood, sitting at a sewing machine in a box room - wherever and whatever you're making, let's start to applaud the people who really make this world of ours go around. 

I created this is a place to share and be appreciated for your talents, hidden or out there already. We've all got something special about us. Tag I created this on Facebook and @icreatedthis2020 on Instagram and I'll share your work. This is for all ages, all abilities. We need to start to look at the people behind the work and the products, we need to connect with each other so much more. Please get involved, share the hell out of this and hopefully all of us who are feeling hopeless might actually find new found followers and supporters of our work once this crazy time is over. We all might start to appreciate that stuff is good and special when we know where it comes from, who made it, where it was made and what it was made from.