Last Saturday my partner and I took ourselves up the highway to @bitsandpiecestt and then stopped in at CardstockTT before making our way back home.

My relationship with Bits & Pieces is longer than my relationship with my partner, my mom and I started attending early on and then it became a yearly event with my partner once my mom passed. We all love being able to see the creativity of our local people and how people reach inside themselves to create something new. From food to jewellery, from candles to pottery, from chocolate to woodworking and so much more. Seeing what others create is inspiring and encouraging.

It was my first time visiting Cardstock TT, they have a sale on and the visit lined up well with our drive to town and back. I am now stocked up on things that will allow me to explore my own creativity over the next few months!

If you're sensing a theme, "creativity" is the prompt for day 7 of Positively Present's #Gratitude30 challenge. We are invited to reflect on the life that we have created for ourselves, to celebrate our own creativity as well as the creativity of those around us.

How do you appreciate your creativity? I give myself time and space to make things - comforting crafts or inspiring programmes. Once upon a time, in the corporate world, I was really good at creating databases. Are you aware of how your creative energy flows?

~Renee Arundhati

*these posts are also being shared on my social media (Instagram and Facebook) as I have shared there over the past years.