Starting a new job can be daunting and overwhelming at any time - but throw in a global pandemic, not being able to meet or interact with your new teammates and you've got yourself a recipe for increased stress and anxiety. 😑 @Deloitte understand that building relationships with other employees is a fundamental part of the onboarding process.📈🤓 So when they tasked @ARTSIPPERS to create a fun and interactive activity to get new recruits talking to each other, we knew exactly what to do! 🎨🖌🍸 By implementing break rooms and fostering an inclusive 'show and tell' format ART SIPPERS can be used as a virtual ice-breaker to encourage conversation and connect colleagues.🤝 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨

How time flies... 🤯 Feels like soo much has changed since this picture (well definitely our clothes size 😅) #TooManySipsInLockdown👀 This was the day we had to cancel all of our in-person events for the year 😩😭 and we had to decide if there was a future for @ARTSIPPERS 🎨🖌🍸 So glad our Sippers asked for us to try out an online version of our event... and since then we haven't looked back! 🚀 You can't predict the future but you can create it!💡 Thank you all for supporting and following our journey... It's been a crazy ride so far and it's only just begun!!! #BigLove💟 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #CommunityLove#GoodVibeTribe#SupportSmallBusiness#CreativeCouple#MentalHealthAwareness#ArtSippers

We hosted 64 inspiring superheroes 😍 Giving them a chance to unwind and re-connect with team members from various departments from all around the UK.🎨🖌🍸 Such a pleasure to bring some fun, creativity and some light-hearted relief to these hard-working individuals. #SimplyBee-Utiful 👏🐝 Thank you for protecting the nation! 💌 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨

What a massive compliment it is to be featured. Last year when all this craziness started, we really thought that was it for our business - fortunately, we were able to move our business virtually and now one year on and reading this article has made us a little emotional! Thank you Virgin Incentives team 🤗 https://virginincentives.co.uk/blog/posts/reward-your-employees-with-februarys-best-new-experiences/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/virgin-incentives/

Wooow!!!! 🤩 What an incredible evening with an amazing bunch of humans!! 💟 Seriously what an inspiring, creative and witty group😂... Plus, you know a few classic bangers too 🎶 #DjOnTheMix Everyone created unBEE-lieveable artworks... you should ALL be so proud!! 🖼 Thank you so much to @Katiepiper_ for getting @ARTSIPPERS to host your family's creative night-in!! 🎨🖌🍸 Sending BIG LOVE & HUGS 🤗💌 for supporting our small business. NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #Repost@Katiepiper_ 👏 °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Bee Creative 🐝 Last night I painted for the first time since school! We did a paint and sip evening on zoom with my family. If you are looking for something fun to do @artsippers hosted us and they were SO brilliant making it fun whilst also teaching us new techniques and it reminded me what a welcomed escapism painting can be! #artsippers#paintandsip

Seriously you ALL smashed this one!! 🤩🤩🤩 We thought this POP ART SIPPERS might be a bit of a challenge for amateurs... but wow you guys levelled up! 👏🚀🎉 Good Vibe Tribe!!! ☮ We had over 75 creatives tune in for the goodness 🎨🍾🖌 Can you spot yourself in the pic?🔍 (Sorry if we missed you in this) 🤗 Have a lovely and blessed week everyone!💟 Stay Safe 🔒 Stay Creative 🖌 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #PopArtSippers#SipSipHooray#CommunityLove#GoodVibeTribe#CreativeCouple#LockdownActivities#OnlineExperiences#OnlineEntertainment#VirtualExperiences#VirtualEvents#FunTimes#SupportSmallBusiness#SipSipHooray#ArtSippers

Not sure what you need for the experience... Here is a little list for you ⤵️ °Canvas / Canvas Paper 🖼 °Paints 🎨 (or Pens/Pencils) °Paintbrushes 🖌 °Dotting Tool (Cotton Bud) °Cup For Water💧 °Pallete/ Plate °Paper Towel 🧻 ⠀ °Plus a cheeky sip🍷or or bottle #NoJudgement 😝 ON THE NIGHT EXTRAS: 🤩 ♡Sip Of The Week @drink_nice ♡ Trivia Quiz & Arty-Facts 😂 (aka Dad Jokes) ♡Competition Raffle Prizes & Giveaways🎰🎁⠀ ⠀ Sippers Love 💟 Use code Sip10 at checkout for 10% off your next @drink_nice of goodness! 🗓 DATE: TONIGHT 🕖 TIME: 7PM - 9PM 🏡 LOCATION: Home Sweet Home Have you booked your space⁉️ Grab your tickets 🎫 Stay Safe 🔒 Stay Creative 🖌 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #OnlineEntertainment#LockdownFun#CommunityLove#CreativeCouple#VirtualExperiences#VirtualEvents#Positivity#GoodVibeTribe#SipSipHooray#TrySomethingNew#SupportSmallBusiness#MentalHealthAwareness#ArtSippers

Such an amazing opportunity to host the exclusive members who are amongst the world's top senior marketing executives. This global community use this digital platform to come together, share ideas and be inspired.💡 Knowing that The CMO Club prides itself on innovation and creativity, it's not surprising that all of the guests ended up with wall-worthy artworks. 👏 #CorporateWellbeing #Community #ExperientialMarketing #Creativity #ArtSippers

The foundations that the system is built on, are fundamentally flawed. Therefore it cannot cope with the modern challenges to our physical and mental wellbeing.⚖ This needs to be a grassroots movement to establish better practices, build understanding and create awareness in order to improve employees work and life integration. 🌱 “In 2021, companies will need to support wellbeing from the top down. They know that the talent in their teams is essential to recovery, and by taking steps to protect that talent mentally and physically, they will be ensuring a healthy future for all concerned.” Dave Capper No longer is this merely a corporate responsibility. This is EVERYONE'S responsibility. 💟 #CorporateWellbeing#MentalHealthAwareness#EmployeeRevolution#Creativity#ArtSippers

What a difference a year makes! After coming close to pulling the plug on our small business after a challenging 2020. 😑 It's simply magical to now be featured in the @Virginexperiencedays newsletter as one of the most popular picks by customers! 💌😍 Ever so grateful for this moment and big thank you to the Virgin Experience team and our amazing SIPPERS FAM 🤗💟 for supporting our journey so far!! 🚀 For all of the blood sweat and tears... this 'almost' makes it all worth it! 😅 Sending love and virtual hugs 🎨🖌🥂 NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #Grateful#Creativity#OnlineExperiences#ValentinesDay#GalentinesDay#OnlineEntertainment#VirtualExperiences#VirtualEvents#FunTimes#DateNight#CommunityLove#GoodVibeTribe✌☮#CreativeCouple#ArtSippers

How’d you guys meet? We met at a training day at work 👨🏿‍💼👩🏼‍💼 First Date: Natural History Museum/Science Museum🏫 How long have you been together: Nortey made it official after sipping LOTS of port🍷 after our walk around the Christmas market in Edinburgh Dec 2013 this was one year after we first met (He says he can’t remember doing it… so we’re basically not official🤔) Married: Nope (Still waiting for Nortey to ask me!! nudge, nudge... hint, hint)💍 Age difference: 3 Years 🕝 Who was interested first: 10000% Pitcher…. We met in a training session for a job and I could sense Pitcher staring at me in the distance… (She wanted the chocolate treats!🍫) To be fair we actually didn't speak with each other that day…. I was just in a massive rush to head to another meeting. (She still calls me RUDE for not saying hello till this day😅) Who is taller: Nortey 6ft 1 vs 5ft 7 ↕️ Who said I love you first: I think it might have been Nortey!! (after a few cheeky sips on his birthday!) 🍾🍾🍾 Most impatient: Ooooh Pitcher but Nortey is a close second (Pitcher tries to finish mine and other people’s sentences ALL the time ...she is that impatient) 🙄 Loudest: Nortey… You can hear him coming!! (Get your mind out of the gutter) 👀😅 Most stubborn: Nortey… not even close 😑 Falls asleep first: Nortey whenever we watch a film he passes out before it ends #DogTired #TheGreenMile💚 Cooks better: Oooooh we are both pretty handy in the kitchen... Well, that’s if we have the time or the correct ingredients to actually make something that’s edible.😅💟 Better morning person: Neither of us!!! (Bed is like heaven)😍🤗 Better driver: 10000000% Nortey (Warning please NEVER get in a car with Pitcher… she drives like a woman possessed!!)🚗🛑 Most competitive: Both of us are really competitive… From board games to Blackjack or Words with Friends neither of us wants to let the other win if we can help it. Friendly competition is healthy right!! 🏅😉 Funniest: Is that really even a question - Nortey hands down (He wrote this obviously!) 🤣 Where do you eat out most as a couple? Anywhere with variety… and a good dessert selection (Sticky toffee pudding/Chocolate fudge cake)🎂 Who is more social? Nortey… Such a social butterfly 🦋 Where was your first kiss? Newcastle… Good times... Way ay Man! 😉 Who initiated your first kiss? Nortey (Blame it on the al al al alcohol) 🍾🍾🍾 #PatternEmerging👀 Do you get flowers often? Not enough! Cough cough (Sort it out Nortey) Oi I have hayfever that’s why💐😅 Plans date night? Both of us… We are both really bad at scheduling time-off to sort out date nights. But we have started date day walks every Saturday now which is nice.🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏼‍♀️💟 #Nature Who picks where you go to dinner? Nortey - because Pitcher is the most INDECISIVE human ever! (No seriously this is not a joke!) 😩😐 Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong? Pitcher… but Nortey has become a lot better at this one lately - Think it's our competitive spirit coming out again. 🏆 Who wears the pants in the relationship? Nortey… but let’s not tell him it’s actually me 🙃 Who has more tattoos? We both have none actually, but Nortey really wants to get some ink. Funnily last year we made a pact to get matching tattoos when we make our first million #YingYang ☮️ Who sings better? We actually are both pretty decent in the shower - Nortey was a little choir boy and used to have a voice of an angel before his voice broke (that’s what he tells me anyway)🎤🎶 Hogs the remote? Nortey - because Pitcher has no idea how to use it. She literally spends 5mins working out where the Netflix icon is located.🎮 Spends the most money? Nortey… but we are both minimalist hippies at heart so we don't really spend that much on stuff apart from art materials, books (that don't get read) food, chocolate and CAAAAKE (we love a good sponge!) 🎂🎂🎂 Did you go to the same school? Nope… that would have been a bit too intense. 😬 Where is the furthest you two have travelled together? New Zealand - Pitcher’s sister lives out there! #Auckland 🏔️ Stay Safe 🔒Stay Creative 🖌️ NorteyPitcher 👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #ValentinesDayChallenge #CreativeCouple #ArtSippers

Did you know this week, 1st - 7th February 2021 is known as Children’s Mental Health Week? And this year's theme is 'Express Yourself'!! 💡 Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share your thoughts, feelings and ideas through creativity. 🎨🖌 This could be through ART, music, writing, poetry, dance, drama, photography, film or any creative activities that make you FEEL good.😊 Remember that expressing yourself is NOT about being the 'best'...it's merely an opportunity to showcase who YOU truly are and having the courage to allow others to understand how you see the world. 🌍 This Sunday was supposed to be our 4th and final FREE lockdown event for ART SIPPERS Kidz, but we have decided to mark this big occasion with a surprise for our Little Sippers (Spoiler Alert!) with one extra FREE virtual event next week! 🎉 With around 1 in 3 children in every primary school class suffering from mental health problems, and many more struggling with challenges from bullying to bereavement - We feel this topic should no longer be seen as a taboo within our society! ⛔ It's time for us adults to start having uncomfortable conversations by speaking up and speaking out 🗣 And by properly educating the next generation there is the hope of fostering a more encouraging and accepting environment for the future.🚀 #MentalHealthMatters ⚖ If you or child have an issue or if you would like more advice on the matter - here is a list of official support lines: Childline 0800 1111 YoungMinds 0800 018 2138 Samaritans 116 123 Mind 0300 123 3393 Calm 0800 58 58 58 NorteyPitcher👨🏿‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek#InspiringCreativity💡 Creativity #Wellbeing#CreativeCouple#SupportSmallBusiness#ArtSippersKidz