
a home for creating
a digital home for the creative mind that supports and inspires the relationship you choose to have with your own creative projects and ideas, updated weekly
With a home for creating membership, you gain access to an ever-growing Notion hub of ideas, voice-notes, artwork, essays, and musings on the creative-process, as well as community spaces for connection and collaboration, behind the scenes of my own pottery practice, reading reflections, project reports, monthly digests, monthly playlists, a library full of archived content, and more…
a home for creating's updates
Content Highlights
🪐 experiments
switching my newsletter from Substack to Buttondown
📹 videos
thoughts on creating ‘my tiny studio,’ a Youtube video
💬 the monthly digest
an overview of what’s been shared every month
🎧 april’s playlist
a monthly rotation of music and podcast recs
Current Conversations
📚 the bookclub
weekly updates on what I’m currently reading, thoughts both during and after I’ve finished a book, an on-going list of books I want to read, notes on what I’ve already read, and other bookish discussions
🏺 pottery diaries
behind the scenes updates from the pottery studio, specifically the process of creating May’s spring collection
📹 youtube diaries
behind the scenes of all of my video-making experiments
📝 writing diaries
thoughts on my on-going relationship to writing
🎙️ sunday things
a roughly once monthly voice-note check in
a monthly membership and digital space designed to better support how you choose create, share, and be inspired
all of the details
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Hello,
In using a program called Notion, I was able to build an entirely personalized and moldable membership area without cutting corners, swapping aesthetic for functionality, or compromising our mental health for anxiety and overwhelm in the face of creating and sharing.
With a home for creating, I built it as I would a room in my own home, cultivating it into a space I would want to spend my Sunday afternoons. Somewhere to read, write, catch up, source inspiration, brainstorm, and create something just because.
And while the intent behind it has always been to be shared, I’ve treasured how slowly I’ve been able to get to know it. To see how we fit together, move together, and make things together, but I’m also eager to see what kinds of conversations we will have, the ideas and projects that will come out of it, and how we’ll choose to create and share in a way that fits our own unique process.
It’s hard to know how to talk about it without showing you the space itself, so here, let me pull it up: this is the main area, updated weekly with aspects of my own creative process.
And, of course, there’s the individual categories we’ll use to organize our thoughts and projects into: experiments, voice-notes, videos, an archive, and further ways to connect.
From the beginning, my goal has been to make it as accessible as possible (both in cost and how the information is shared), and so I did my best to answer questions one might have when looking to join an online space like this one, as well as being clear on my own boundaries and values when it comes to managing and tending to it.
I’m so proud of how it’s come together, and I can’t wait to see how it continues to unfold and change shape, taking on iterations of its own.
Talk soon,
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The primary navigation includes the following sections
Archive
Voice-Notes
Videos
Experiments
and the Bookclub
And the connect section includes the following sections
Community Conversations
The Monthly Digest (resource)
Library of Personal Oddities (resource)
Chloe's Notion Universe (resource)
and my personal newsletter, Freshly Squeezed (resource)
For a more detailed look inside the community member area, view this gallery
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Personal and community updates will be shared in the form of
weekly notes
creative diaries
monthly digests
mini workshops
project reflections
in-process updates
books I'm reading
image galleries
monthly playlists
things I'm inspired by
and so on...
Categorized into one of the following sections (found within the 'primary' or 'connect' navigation)
Experiments
Videos
Voice-Notes
Archive
Bookclub
and Community Conversations
For a more detailed look inside the community member area, view this gallery
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'Community Conversations' is a community space for connecting and supporting each other through the creative process. It is a part of a home for creating
Due to the nature of Community Conversations, this digital member space (also hosted in Notion) has a short submission process in order to become a participant
This extra step is to ensure that you consent to being a part of an interactive online community with other members of a home for creating, before being given access
*Inside of a home for creating, you'll find a section called 'Join Community Conversations.' This is where you will go to begin the submission process
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Disclaimer
Everything shared on and through this website (incl. a home for creating) are for the purpose of entertainment only
This includes, but is not limited to, voice notes, graphics, images, and written text. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatmentAlways seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website
Privacy
If you are an active member of a home for creating, or were a member in the past, I ask that all content within a home for creating, including the URL, is not shared with anyone who isn’t also an active member. Thank you!
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When you sign up to become a member of a home for creating, you’ll be creating an account with chloealmeda.com
Account Navigation
Access to your account will always be available to you within the website’s main navigation (found at the top of this website)
To login to your account, click on where it says ‘account’ or ‘login’ at the top of this website. Once clicked, a pop up will appear asking you to sign in using your email and the password you created when you first joined
Once logged in, a menu will pop up on the side of your screen (if you’re on your phone this may look different). If it doesn’t pop up, click on where it says ‘account.’ This is where you’ll go to both access A Home For Creating and make changes to your account
To visit A Home For Creating’s Notion member area, click on where it says, ‘a home for creating’s member area 🐚’ just under where it says ‘pages’ within this same section
And just above where it says ‘pages,’ you can ‘manage your subscription’ (ex: change your password, cancel your account, or update your card information
Have any further questions? Please get in touch, hello@chloealmeda.com
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a home for creating is to be interacted with as you would a website's membership area
And while this community space is hosted in Notion (the app), it is not itself a Notion template to be duplicated for your own use
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While you do not need to download the Notion app in order to join as a member, if you are interested in participating in the community conversations aspect, you will be asked to create a free Notion account (unless you already have one). This is discussed further in 'the community' section
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And unless it specifically states otherwise, there is no set content schedule for this community space
That said, I will be sure to make known what is shared on a weekly basis vs. monthly. If you want to be updated on new content, I invite you to subscribe to the monthly digest
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For privacy purposes, the URL of the Notion member area is subject to change (roughly once every two months). The current active link will always be available to you within your account page when you become a member through this site
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Alongside the creative content shared within this community, the format, structure, design, artwork, and so on, is also subject to change
One of the joys of designing this digital space in Notion is the flexibility that it brings to our fluctuating needs and interests (so don’t be surprised if a page layout changes or I add in an entirely new section just because)
A more detailed look inside the community member area, can be found in this gallery