Fiona Meakin Designs - Draw With Fi

It's powerful stuff! You may feel it calling to you, even though you haven't got a clue which creative outlet will let you shine your light.  When I finished my drama degree, I was obsessed with writing a play, only I didn't have a voice - I had NOTHING to say. I kept a folder with ideas in and the start of scripts but I never wrote more than 2 pages of any! I could think of situations and characters but not a story or what was going to happen, yet I still felt compelled to try. I started to question my intellect, telling myself stories that I was the least academic member of my family, that I was thick, that I was failing! I told myself that because spelling isn't my forte I couldn't write - yet I'm writing this right now, indeed writing is now surprisingly to me, a large part of what I do.  And yet, even though I was pretty horrible to myself in the inner voice department; that little spark of creative power didn't give up, it always shone throug

" Then it dawned on me. Have I been sort of hiding?! Have I been waiting for a 'better day?' " April Showers I'm sitting in the front porch at a little table that I'm renovating. It belonged to my grandma and is covered in sheets of paper with my daughter is drawings on. It is raining outside. True 'Manchester' drizzle. My little girl is standing at the top of the drive in the rain. But, despite my best efforts to advise her that we should wait for a 'better' day, she's not perturbed. "Come and buy a drawing!" She calls. "Drawings for sale. They're one of a kind!"  I think we have a natural sales woman here! My heart is bursting with pride at her guts and natural enthusiasm. She is only 6 and so brave to put herself out there! Would I do it?! Am I trying as hard as she is? The one problem is that she hasn't made a sale...yet. Charlotte's showed up but where are her customers? It&#