Creative Cafe Members Introductions

[Jill]

It has occured to me that we have nowhere in particular on Creative Cafe for members to introduce themselves to the group and so I hope you will all be able to do that here now.

Just to start things off I am Jill and I live in Brighton in the UK. I started Creative Cafe with a small group of volunteer friends and some donations in 2007 and we opened the site in November. I have a mental health disability and we have made a point of saying 'Don't Let Disability Mean Inequality' but not in pushing disability issues on this site. Mainly I'd like to show that although a high per cent of our members do have disabilities we can hold our own when it comes to creativity in this world. I think this shows up each week in each new Spotlight Slideshow where it is impossible to tell the difference between the photos contributed by members who are disabled and those who are not unless we are featuring a particular member who addresses the subject. To test this have a look at the Spotlight slideshow and see if you can guess which photos are the work of those with disabilities and which are not?
I enjoy being a volunteer organiser for Creative Cafe even though I have found that there is a lot more work behind the scenes to be done than I imagined there would be. At the moment I am learning about promoting and marketing our Creative Cafe Salesrooms on a small budget and am finding that quite time consuming. But I do enjoy seeing the lovely things members are listing in there and like seeing the traffic and sales on the site slowly go up.

Apart from Creative Cafe my interests include reading, patchwork, music,suduko puzzles, drinking a lot of coffee and playing with Dickens the cat!

Bye for Now
Jill

[Jill]

Hi Denise

I am glad we are being listed on google now anyway! Thankyou for joining us and for the blogs you have added already which are full of some very useful information and references. Very interesting.

Bye for Now
Jill

[Dawn Howard]

Hi, Im Dawn from Manchester and I work as a freelance artist. I love anything creative ....card making, pottery, quilling, beading, flower arranging....just to name a few! I look forward to finding new crafts I haven't yet tried.