We made it! Another wonderful season wrapping up, and to celebrate, we have some very special guests to chat about creative habits and a crafty life. Thank you so much for joining us this season, and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of months with Season Three!

Instagram is our main stomping ground for both connection and memory keeping these days, rather than blogs. A freeze frame of a split second doesn't always tell the full story though, and today we are chatting about why we chose to share what we share, and also how scrolling instagram and comparing everyone else's perfection to our own daily life impacts our creative process

Before we were podcasters, before we were instagrammers, we were bloggers. We are diving into nostalgia and revisiting those days, and chatting about why we loved blogging as a format for sharing our projects, and as a way to connect.

Who knew craft could be so scary? Apparently it is! We fear dropping a project and regretting it later, we fear losing mojo half way through, we fear letting a project go, and we fear that good old fashioned worry of social media - a dint in our pride when we admit we "failed" on a project we've already shared publicly!

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Find today's show notes at http://ministryofcraftyshenanigans.com/?p=211

When the going gets tough, the crafters get going...to the project pile! Today we are chatting about how we use craft to ground us when we are feeling All The Things, and to help us process our big emotions. We also chat accountability and languishing - are we feeling flat because we haven't bee crafting or are we avoiding crafting because we feel flat?

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BONUS: a free download to help your own 3x3 practise in included with todays show notes at http://ministryofcraftyshenanigans.com/?p=210

Bringing together thread from episodes 3 & 4, we wrap up our discussions on productivity, and chat about how our perspectives vary, as well as prioritising creativity even when life gets busy.

Productivity seems to be the name of society's game, but what does that look like when you are a compulsive crafter, and don't have a 9-5? How does our self-image and identity play into our desire to appear productive (even if just to ourselves), and in the end, does it really matter?

Some projects have a clear purpose and outcome. some exist simply because they are fun to make. We chat over some of our projects that don't always have a tangible purpose, but are still crucial to our creative process. Along the way, we take a side trip into group projects, and creating as a tool for connection.

The shownotes with today's links and downloads can be found at http://ministryofcraftyshenanigans.com/?p=207

We chat about some of our more iconic projects and more ambitious schemes, to try and tease out what it is about a project that tickles our crafty mojo and has us obsessed with it... or why we give up almost before we start.

Over the first two years of the pandemic, we've both had major shifts in our creative practices. In this episode, we chat about how Rach switched from perpetual procrastinator, to finishing all the things, and why Car suddenly filled a heap of journals. We talk word of the year, non-pandemic influences, and the importance of mindset and where we started from.