The Artsy Craftsy is a home for creativity that doesn't fit in a box
✨ About The Artsy Craftsy
It exists for the creatively curious, the quietly rebellious, and anyone who has ever felt like their creativity was too messy, too strange, or too much for the world around them.
The Artsy Craftsy is a content-led creative community where art, creativity, intuition and self-expression and exploration come together as a way of returning to your inner magic and creating fearlessly without perfection, pressure, or permission.
🌿 What We Believe
We believe that:
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Creativity is not a talent — it’s a birthright
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Art is not just a product — it’s a process
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And self-expression is a form of healing, rebellion, and freedom
We believe that when people are given space to explore their inner worlds through making, something powerful happens: they come back to themselves.
The Artsy Craftsy holds space for that return- both personally and collectively.
Through rituals, reflections, journal jams, and shared creative practices, we cultivate a culture of creative freedom, radical self-honesty, and playful exploration.
🔥 How It Began
The Artsy Craftsy began in 2008 as a small personal blog, a place for Shia Lynn to document her creative explorations, inner shifts, and love for intentional creativity as an everyday creator.
At a time when Malaysian creative culture had few online spaces for artists, crafters, and seekers, The Artsy Craftsy quietly became a gathering point for those who were searching for more than just techniques- they were searching for meaning.
But the heart of The Artsy Craftsy never changed.
It was always about this:
Helping people find themselves again through creativity.
Today, The Artsy Craftsy has come full circle- returning to its roots as a space for deep, honest, soulful creative living, now shaped into a global content community through Instagram, Substack, and in-person gatherings.
🖤 About Shia Lynn Victor
Hi I’m Shia Lynn! I am an artist, creative alchemist, and the founder of The Artsy Craftsy.
I’ve been living and working inside the creative world for over two decades — from hand-painting t-shirts in my early twenties, to creating wearable art for fashion shows and brands, to organising creative events and mentoring artists and seekers.
But more than anything, I’ve always been curious about one thing:
What happens inside a person when they create?
I’ve studied and practiced creativity not just as an art form, but as a pathway to self-understanding, emotional healing, and personal power. This led me to train in fabric painting, therapeutic art, and creative life coaching- but my deepest education has always come from lived experience.
Through The Artsy Craftsy, I don’t teach people how to be better artists.
I help them remember how to be more themselves.
🌙 A Living Movement
The Artsy Craftsy isn’t a brand you follow.
It’s a place you belong.
Whether you’re sketching in a journal, attending a Journal Jam, reading a ritual on Substack, or simply sitting with your own creative questions- you’re part of a wider creative rebellion that says:
We are allowed to create on our own terms.
Welcome to The Artsy Craftsy.
You’re exactly where you’re meant to be.
— Shia Lynn.
Follow me on Instagram / Follow my creative practice here
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Supported by the community
The Artsy Craftsy is supported in part by paid reviews, sponsored content, and creative collaborations with brands and tools that align with our values.
These partnerships help keep this platform alive- allowing us to continue publishing, hosting community experiences, and creating resources for creative rebels everywhere.
We only feature what we genuinely use, love, or believe can support your creative journey. Integrity always comes first.