Julia Cameron coined the Artist Date as a weekly solo adventure that nourishes one’s creative spark.

Although I love encouraging activities like museums, bookstores, art galleries, cafes, live music, tea salons, parks, and gardens, now it’s all about Artist Dates at home which is lovely, too.

Ideas to get you started:

Create in your journal
Virtually visit museums and national parks
Design a vision board on Pinterest
Try a new recipe
Set up a creative space
Learn origami
Make your own blend of tea 🍵
Try a different type of movement class
Plant a garden 🌱 (windowsills count)
Set up an altar
Make jewelry
Bake a cake 🎂
Virtually visit to the Paris Opera house
Play in a coloring book
Knit or crochet a scarf
Write a poem 📝
Bake banana bread
Watch a creative documentary
Pen snail mail love notes 💌
Shop your closet and create new looks 👗
Take an online class 👩🏼‍💻
Do a puzzle
Create DIY bath products 🛁
Make a playlist 🎶

Need more inspiration?

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What’s ONE thing you can try this weekend to nurture your creative side? Bisous x