Creative Scrapbook Journalling – Close the Year, Open a New Page

Creative Scrapbook Journalling – Close the Year, Open a New Page is at The QUARTER at Potbank, Spode Creative Village on Friday 4 December, from 9 am to 12 pm. It's a three-hour morning of reflection and making, run by Writing with Purpose.

The session is led by Anna Woolliscroft and Sarah of The Creative Club. Anna is a certified Journal to the Self practitioner with a Master's in Creative Writing and Wellbeing, and Sarah runs creative workshops across Staffordshire. Together they guide you through a slow morning of looking back on 2026, choosing a word to carry into 2027, and checking in with eight areas of wellbeing. That word then becomes the centrepiece of the second half: you'll build it into the cover of an A4 notebook using colour, cut-outs, stickers, beads, gems and thread. You leave with a journal whose first pages are already written, and no writing or craft experience is needed to join in.

Writing with Purpose (Market Avenue Ltd) provides everything you need on the table: an A4 notebook to decorate, all the craft materials, and drinks. You also get a wellness wheel and journalling prompts to take home, so the work doesn't have to stop when the morning does. It's £35 per person, and the whole thing runs from 9 am to 12 pm at The QUARTER at Potbank, Spode Creative Village, Elenora Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1QQ.