MY WORLD     We are in the process of constructing a ‘My World’ section where you can put up photos or any writing you like and add other things – like your own page really.  Or even a bit like Pinterest – add photos of anything that you like or [...]

        For International ME/CFS Awareness Day, May 12th, people around the world are raising awareness of this debilitating illness,  and this year it seems that thanks to the wonders of technology we can reach further than ever before.  People will have to sit up and listen, they cannot ignore us any more, [...]

A very warm welcome to our new members of MEspace!  We are so glad you have joined us,  and are delighted to welcome our latest members  from Ghana, Cuba, India and the Czech Republic.  We also have members (apart from the UK) from The States, Vietnam, France , Germany and the Caribbean Islands!   We [...]

  Here is the fabulous poster made from contributions to the doodle gallery.  There is another one coming out with different doodles so that we can incorporate as many as we can.  This poster will be going into the Open Houses in The Brighton Arts Festival throughout May.  It will be viewed by many who will not [...]

Thanks to Hannah for two fantastic doodles!  Both beautiful in different ways – the delicate’ Spirit of Spring’  (love the title!) and the powerful ‘Energised’.  Thank you Hannah.                        

   A very warm welcome to all the new members of MEspace who have joined recently!  It is wonderful to have you here with us – MEspace is growing rapidly into an extremely creative and visually stunning site (thanks to your contributions!) and hopefully a place where people can come and just take some time [...]

  Ahh… the glories of summer.  Suddenly the weather has catapulted into Spring/Summer with warm sunny days and the parks filled with the laughter of children playing with their friends, throwing frisbees, kicking footballs, playing tennis whilst dogs scamper around on the flower scented lawns…. a picture of happiness surely and a welcome relief after [...]

    ‘Like dance, the pleasure that calligraphy gives the eye lies in the excellence and aptness of its rhythm and gesture’.Andrew van der  Merwe     
The word Calligraphy comes from the Greek words kallos which means ‘beauty’ and graphe which means ‘writing’.  It has been used throughout the centuries and its origins were [...]

  Welcome to the new members of MEspace!  A very warm welcome to the new members of MEspace  who have joined over the last week or so.  It is really good to have you here with us, especially as some of you are from different countries around the world.  It is very heartening to see [...]

     With ME/CFS Awareness day approaching it would be great to be able to make a contribution from MEspace, so lets get doodling!   If you look in the Doodle Gallery and take a section of it and imagine it enlarged with writing underneath that is what it will look like.  Simple, colourful and [...]

WHY ME?  by Poppy Sansom May 12th – 18th is ME/CFS Awareness Week and Sunday May 12th is ME/CFS Awareness Day.    This coincides with the Brighton Arts Festival which takes place throughout the month of May. We were wondering if the members of MEspace would contribute doodles towards a  DOODLE POSTER  that we could [...]

  Wow! That’s a pretty impressive welcome – makes your eyes go a bit funny doesn’t it!  A very warm welcome to the new members of MEspace.  We hope you are enjoying the site and please let us know if there is anything you would like to add or change about it.  We are a relatively new [...]

A very Happy Easter to all at MEspace! “There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE.”Linda Grayson  Easter is nearly here,  and if you are stuck for a few more ideas before the great day (and possibly the great family) descends upon you,  check out these blogs …… http://freebies.about.com/od/easterfreebies/tp/free-easter-printables.htm  This is [...]

  Easter is approaching and it is that time of year again which involves adorable fluffy yellow things and yellow daffodils and yellow baskets full of yellow rafia and yellow (and a few other colours) spotted eggs.  In fact I think we could safely say the predominant colour is yellow!  We love it!  It is [...]

THANK YOU for the superb duck contributions that have been flooding the doodle gallery recently!!  They are having a grand party it seems!  We will wait until the quackers stop coming before we decide the winner.  Just take a look at these stunning guys:        DID YOU KNOW? All ducks have highly waterproof [...]

  To all the newcomers today a very warm welcome to MEspace!  It’s excellent to have you here,  and we hope you have enjoyed looking at the site.  If you feel tempted to upload anything that you have done (pictures or poems or videos etc.) please do and don’t be shy! We welcome all levels , [...]

  Gluten free cooking is good for ME/CFS as it stops the wheat and gluten causing extra tiredness and keeps blood sugar levels balanced.  Although in the past we have not been great fans of gluten free products due to their somewhat cardboard-like taste (the bread!),  you can find some really lovely things these days [...]

  ‘Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.’  ~Kahlil Gibran There are many different types of poems, there are sonnets and odes and haiku s, there are limericks and epics and free verses….many different ways to express your emotions in rhyming or non rhyming form.  We [...]

    Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over. ~George Cooper   This is especially for the MEspace Mums.  Here’s wishing you a very happy mother’s day on Sunday and hoping you are treated [...]

    Welcome to all the newcomers in MEspace.  It’s so good to have you on board and we are now attracting people from many parts of the world – we would love to hear from you and see contributions from different countries.  Please use the chat room for the moment, although it is being [...]

  Here are some new doodles – just love the captions that go with them which people do not see:      princessteenie says of ‘Angel’  ’this is an angel in pink, drawn because sometimes we all need a guardian angel to watch over us’ Tina says of ‘Brain Fog’ ‘This is what my brain [...]

  Here are some ideas for arts and crafts, either for Mother’s Day or just for any day!   CARD MAKING Let’s Stamp!    Rubber stamping is a quick and easy way to make cards with less effort involved if you are feeling tired, and yet you can produce some stunning cards that will no [...]

  Mother’s Day is just around the corner and its a chance for all of us to shower the ones we love with cards or gifts and tell them how wonderful they are!!  For people with ME/CFS as Mums themselves, as Mum’s of our children who are suffering, or those whose Mum’s look after them, [...]

  A dazzling and glitzy welcome to all the new members of MEspace who have joined recently!  We are delighted to have you aboard!  We hope you have enjoyed finding your way around and if you feel like contributing a doodle , some artwork, music, videos or photos of your pets please do upload them. [...]

     Candle light, moon light, star light,The brightest glow is from love light.  Grey Livingston It’s Valentine’s Day coming up!  The shops are bursting with RED.  Red hearts, red roses, red balloons – everywhere we look in the next few days we will be immersed in the romantic splendour of Love.  Valentine’s day is [...]

  Thanks to Carolyn for her wonderful doodle ‘Spring is on the way’.  The days are getting longer with the light lengthening and winter is coming to an end.  Hurray!!  Flowers are tentatively pushing their heads up through the earth and garden centres are abundant with lovely plants to add colour and decoration.  If we are awake [...]

  What a wonder it always is, year after year, to wake up and see the world white outside your window and a blanket of snow softening the garden.  The world has become beautiful, magical, romantic, overnight and the first thing most of us want to do is to rush out there and plant new [...]

    The first edition of the MEspace newsletter is being created so hold on to your hats guys for this stunning material to materialize!  (It may not be stunning but we will give it our best!)   An enormous thank you too,  for the unstoppable talents of Mrs Sackville-Baggins with her very first doodle! [...]

Thanks to Caroline and Dexter for some bright and brilliant New Year Doodles!     BE THE WINNER OF THE BEST DOODLE MADE ENTIRELY FROM THE CIRCLES AND SQUARES -give it a go! [...]  

  New Year at MEspace is not all singing all dancing whooping with joy like the rest of them out there (which can give one a headache quite frankly!) but perhaps a quiet reflection on new beginnings and ways forward to improve the qualities of our lives.    We can look for new therapies to [...]

Thank you to Jane Colby from The Tymes Trust (www.tymestrust.org) for her wonderful poem ‘The Night before Christmas’ which can be seen on the Words page.  Sleep problems can be quite common for people with ME/CFS  and this poem says it all!  You are not alone if you do find sleep doesn’t come easily; the [...]

     A warm welcome to the new members who have just signed up!  Its Christmas time and to all MEspacers  can we tempt you to dazzle us with a Christmas Doodle for the Doodle Gallery?  Go on its easy and fun! The best one will be Doodle of the Week (changing from Doodle of the [...]

Christmas can be a challenging time for people with ME/CFS.  There is lots of activity, noise, lights and general good cheer that can send one heading for the bed at a speedy pace!  The secret is to pace and to make it a happy Christmas for you, which may not mean the same as for [...]

  An excellent diet we have found for sustaining energy levels (even if there isn’t much!) and keeping blood sugar levels balanced, thus avoiding the highs and lows of sugar peaks, is the Low Glycemic Index diet.  The Glycemic Index ranks foods from 0-100 depending on how quickly they effect your blood sugar levels in the couple of hours [...]

A couple of doodles from bonnie Scotland! Logie the dog and the Highland Cow which is a darling – you just want to take him home with you! Thanks to Caro and Kinvara x    [...]  

There have been some wonderful new additions to the Art Gallery recently – some exceptional artwork that is uplifting and inspiring.  Please add your own masterpieces, any age, any ability – they are all masterpieces!    [...]    

Thank you to our Halloween doodle contributors!  Brilliant doodles for           this spoooky time of year….can you add yours to the gallery?    [...]  

POP ART Andy Warhol born Pittsburgh 1928, died New York 1987    Andy Warhol loved Campbell’s condensed tomato soup so much he painted it!  It created a sensation when it was first exhibited.  Known as ‘The Prince of Pop Art’, Warhol was one of the most famous and influential artists in history.  He liked to [...]

  We now have a new Chat Room!  It’s for members only so if you feel like talking see you there!   [...]

More dazzling doodles to brighten up our days! Thank you to the very talented Gheneage for Colour and Sea. The work gone into Colour must have taken time and what a result! Who needs Lichtenstein when we have such work on our site!                         [...]

                                                  Look at these beautiful doodles!       Done by three extremely talented artists, Eliza, Issy and Poppy – thanks girls!  A Welcome, a pawprint and a spooky! Just perfect. [...]

Other ways to become stimulated by art is to look at some of the ways different artists have worked and view their different techniques. Here are some fun artists and some of their works – maybe they will inspire you! POP ART Roy Lichtenstein  born New York 1923, died New York 1997 Lichtenstein was one [...]

    Calling all doodlers….Autumn is here and there are some fantastic colours around (when the weather permits us to see them!)  Why not try an autumn doodle?   [...]  

  Two stunning new doodles have graced the Artzone page recently – thank you Charlie and Sally!  [...] Happy robot by Charlie                                                                   [...]

As we all know, art therapy can greatly assist M.E/CFS sufferers.  Here are a few ideas for those who need some inspiration!To get started for the artwork you have to think first about what it is you want to draw/paint.Do you like doing figures and portraits, landscapes, still life, drawing animals or your  favourite pet, [...]

Thank you to our artists who have already produced some stunning doodles!  I have decided to add a doodle gallery (click the link at the bottom of the doodle page)  so that they can all be displayed, rather than just the current one.  Keep them coming! They are really lovely.   Big hug for Tiger. Bella [...]

‘What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.’ John Updike. Hi my name is Bella and my son Charlie has had M.E. for four years. I was inspired to create MEspace because as an artist I could see how therapeutic drawing and writing were for Charlie and friends of his [...]