Hello! I'm Maja [Ma-ya], the creator of Maiiou. I explore ideas through color, texture, and form, letting imagination and intuition guide me. I share my passion for making and creating through tutorials that are thorough, clear, encouraging, and inspiring so you can deepen your own creative journey. In my shop, you’ll discover a growing collection of tutorials for creative projects—ranging from abstract and non-representational art to soft sculptures, dolls, toys, décor, and beyond.

I work with a wide variety of materials and techniques, including hand sewing and stitching, knitting, embroidery, crochet, needle felting, weaving, drawing, painting, sculpting, fabric and paper manipulation, and dyeing—the list goes on. I develop my skills through countless hours of experimentation, transforming ideas into material form.

Flow, my blog, is a space for reflection, imagination, creation, and experimentation. It’s a blend of creative explorations, tutorials, glimpses into my artistic process, and insights from the unseen—shared as guided visual meditations.

What I create changes and evolves as I do. I draw inspiration from nature, the turning of the seasons, visual meditation, shamanic journeys, vision quests, dreams, folklore, fantasy, science fiction, graphic novels, and video games. Still, inspiration knows no bounds and can come from anything and everything.

I live in Ireland, Co. Kildare, with my husband and a bunch of cats with big personalities. Outside the studio, I enjoy gardening. I let my garden grow wild as much as possible, shifting naturally with the seasons. That same rhythm inspires how I approach creativity—each idea is like a seed that, when given space and freedom, can grow into something unexpected, untamed, and truly one of a kind.

Thank you for stopping by—may your creativity open the door to something magical and unexpected! 🖤

@maiiou.creates • inspirational tutorials, soft sculptures & abstract art • blog on creativity, imagination & the artistic process

@maiiou.spirit • connecting with the Unseen • shamanic journeys & visual meditations • sharing messages from the spirit realms

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• Creating with Courage 2024 [student exhibition, p.39]