Lettering Artist✨Surface Design✨Creative Mentor (she/her) 🤗 A warm, creative hug 👩🏻🎨 Helping you reignite your creativity through play + self expression 💃🏻 Mother of 4
Joy, a short story + an invitation
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Hey Reader, Do you feel like me? I keep seeing emails in my inbox that I don't want to read and quickly swipe to *move to trash*. Why, because they aren't addressing things I care about, I have moved on, some things just feel, well, trivial. In the whirlwind or, more likely, the gigantic storm of life's tough moments, finding joy can seem like a radical act—a rebellion against the chaos that is enveloping us. But hear me out. Finding joy, even when the world feels heavy, is a reminder of our shared humanity. It's a nod to the resilience ingrained in each of us, a testament to the fact that even in the darkest of times, there's still room for lightness, laughter and creativity. More than that, embracing joy is a form of resistance—a refusal to let the despair win, a declaration that we won't be defined by our hardships. It's a small yet powerful way to stand up against the forces that seek to keep us down. Reader, keep finding those pockets of joy, even on the hardest days. Because in doing so, we're not just lifting ourselves up, but contributing to a collective cause for a brighter, better world. Something I am sure we all dream of. Below are some recent play pieces from my art journal, some are activities we worked on inside the Permission to Play Members Group, others are unexpected moments I found myself creating. Offering!I am running a free trial workshop towards the end of this month. It is a tester for an in person workshop I am running in April. I need 10-15 people and first selections will come from folk inside the Members group before opening to the wider community. It will be lettering/type and play related and you will need to allow 3 hours for the workshop. The trial will be held online. If you are interested in learning more or keen to attend, please reply to this email and let me know! Reply with WORKSHOP INTEREST and let me know where you are in the world, your lettering interests and if you saw my recent Typism workshop or have done a workshop with me before. Thank you so much! Until soon. With Kindness, |
Delphie Joy
Lettering Artist✨Surface Design✨Creative Mentor (she/her) 🤗 A warm, creative hug 👩🏻🎨 Helping you reignite your creativity through play + self expression 💃🏻 Mother of 4
At first, having my office next to the laundry was a good idea. Working from home meant that I could easily do washing in between client calls or whilst working on logotypes. However, now, my office is 100% an art studio and well, when I walk downstairs to do laundry, often the paints call my name... "Psst Delphie... Can you hear us? Come, join us in here... you MUST paint!" So, I duck my head into the room, ahh, it feels comfortable here, warm, at home. I sign. Then I get the urge. A big...
It was 10.15pm before I left the set-up for the school fete. I was one of the last four people there, prepping for the next day. Another volunteer said, ‘It’s a bit addictive doing community work, isn’t it?’ And, Reader, nothing has felt so accurate (except that reel where that person can't find the end of the sticky tape... that was spot on?) It isn't unusual for me to put my hand up 🙋♀️ to help where I can, and I almost always end up doing more than I signed up for. But I never leave jaded....
Hey Reader, Last week I had a pretty mammoth anxiety episode. It wasn't enjoyable (**um, obviously**), but coming out the other side, I quickly reflected on the toolbox I had to help me through an event like this. I have learnt that mental health isn't the absence of having crappy things happen to you; it's being as equipped as possible to reach for your action plan when an emergency strikes to help you recover as quickly as possible. Also, while our society has created a narrative that we...