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What this is all about and what you can expect as a subscriber
It’s a delight to have you here and I hope you’ll want to stay. I’m Amy and I’m an artist, mum of 2, business owner and general creative-life advocate.
I’m here to explore and support you to harness your creative spark, earn money and juggle family life - and feel good about it all.
As an artist, I make projects for adults and little ones that remember and celebrate what it means to be human. I also design and style real life events with my design business; The Joy Eclectic.
You can read the FULL ABOUT POST if you have time, but in a nutshell, Spray It Gold is me in full experimentation and play mode - I’d love to have you along for the ride if that feels interesting for you.
If you enjoy an eclectic mix of serious life-examining chat with a sprinkling of frivolity, you might like it here.
Spray It Gold - what’s in a name
Why oh why I hear you ask?
Historically, I HAVE sprayed a lot of stuff gold within my work. I actually did a project around 2010 about throw away culture and the value of gold…I created an entirely gold pop-up cafe in an empty railway arch in London where visitors could get their crap sprayed gold 😂
I also couldn’t find a gold leather jacket for my wedding under £400, so yes, I found an el cheapo one and sprayed it…
Just to really hammer home the theme here, part of our wedding venue (a dis-used cowshed barn in Dorset) collapsed a week before our wedding and we had to have scaffolding in full view. Instead of losing my mind about it, we covered the scaff poles in gold vinyl and made it a feature. Have a gander:
What you’ll find here.
If you subscribe, you’ll get:
Monthly newsletters for all
Regular posts and personal shares about creativity, motherhood, business and wellbeing - around once a week
Access to my art project archive as I move it over here
Support and community for creativity, career, matrescence, midlife, motherhood-work-life juggle (I’m still building this out but come along for the ride)
It’s my hope within this community I can create workshops, tutorials and projects you can do at home that you’ll love. Once we get going I’d love to take requests and suggestions too.
I’d love to involve this community in shaping and researching projects along the way too.
A gift from me to you
To say THANKYOU when you subscribe, I’d like to gift you something…
The FREE GIFT is a mindful crafting tutorial with paper you can do straight away for a moment of calm (and you get something cool to decorate a wall with afterwards - bonus!)
It’s a workshop called
Learn how to make Paper Sunburst Starburst decorations 👇🏼 check your welcome email for the workshop link and make sure it isn’t in Spam.
Access all areas - before I turn on the paywall later!
At the moment you get immediate access to The Story of You & Me - a book-binding and story collecting project you can do with loved ones - originally supported by Arts Council England.
This was a live workshop then online workshop and postable toolkit which I sold for £25 . Now you can buy the bits yourself (I supply a shopping list) and do it for NOWT!
THE STORY OF YOU & ME - HAVE A LOOK
When you subscribe I’ll send you the password for all the video tutorials!
Finally
Feel free to have a proper nosy around this space. I haven’t got a growth metric to hit or particular money making goal in mind - I’m mainly here to share, connect and experiment.
I’d love to hold space for a new type of community that might weave in a bit of real life magic. If you’re interested in coming along for the ride, grab your boots and hop on.
Amy x