Join CJ Sketches (https://www.cjsketches.com/) for a crafty Make & Take experience! Create your own Creative Journey Sketchbook—a portable, expandable journal designed to grow with you through life’s adventures.

What You’ll Craft:

A customizable, modular journal to collect paintings, stickers, poems, stories, and memories. Use reclaimed materials to assemble pages that can be added, rearranged, or removed over time. Personalize your sketchbook with pockets, tabs, and creative binding techniques.

Why It Matters for Mental Health:

🌱 Therapeutic Expression: Channel emotions and thoughts into a tactile, creative outlet. Journaling and art are proven tools for reducing stress and fostering mindfulness.

🌿 Celebrate Growth: The expandable design mirrors life’s journey—adaptable, evolving, and full of potential. Document progress, joys, and challenges as you go.

🌸 Inner Exploration: Use your sketchbook as a safe space to reflect, dream, and reconnect with yourself. Collecting meaningful artifacts fosters gratitude and self-awareness.

💡 Community Connection: Share in the collective energy of creating alongside others, reinforcing that no one walks their mental health journey alone.

No experience needed! Whether you craft on-the-spot or take supplies home, leave with a unique companion for self-discovery.

Join us to:

✨ Craft a tool for resilience and joy. ✨ Turn creativity into self-care. ✨ Build a visual diary of your inner world.

Supplies provided, but feel free to bring cherished scraps or ephemera to include! Let’s stitch hope, one page at a time. 🌟

Part of Mental Health Awareness Month at Austin Creative Reuse—where art meets healing.

This is a FREE drop-in event, so you can stop by anytime between 2-5PM to participate.

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