Lizz Mears

Back in 2015, I decided I wanted to create my very own set of Colouring Pages! They were becoming ALL.THE.RAGE & I wanted to find a way to get people using the joy of colouring & art to calm the crazy talk of Anxiety and Mental Health Challenges. I knew that for me, being creative is the best way to relax, quiet my mind and feel like I’ve achieved something even if that was all I’d managed that day. So, I selflessly (oh it was such a chore !)  threw myself into designing these pages! They took me about one month if that, to complete. I adored the process of thinking up ideas, sketching them out. Rubbing them out and starting again. Then inking them in with an ultra fine Sharpie (my fav pen of choice, I think I should get shares in Sharpie!!). Back then I operated under the name of MidSummerLily and solely shared my creative work. Selling my Art through Etsy and my Facebook page. I set out to create an actual real life book but found it ...

Yes, yes, I know! It’s another person chattering on about journaling and it’s benefits! But bear with me. Do you remember being young and having lots of spare time to do as you please? Yeah, your parents were ALWAYS telling you do stuff you didn’t want to do like helping with the chores and tidying your bedroom! Now you’re an adult you realise you had loads of free time, the things you were asked to help with weren’t that bad really! As a teenager, I’d lay on my bedroom floor of an evening, listening to music and out would come my diary. Forever Friends was a favourite brand I had! The tales my diaries could tell! The love struck me, when friends were not my friends anymore, the next day we’re thick as thieves again!  So, and so said this today. I hate X,Y,Z with a passion. Boy, did I let it out! F-bombs, truth bombs and downright pissed off passages is what came out of me! It helped. I can literally still feel the release now when I think back about those years ...