The CWH Daily News 📰 4th Anniversary of PNP edition 🎉

14 February, 2026 | Vol. 238, No. 6

CELEBRATING 4 YEARS OF "PRACTICE OF PERFECT!" 🎹

Creative Work Hour was founded on Canada Day, that is, 1 July of 2021. This live daily online creative studio has been a godsend for many content creators, software & game developers, and knowledge workers. But we learned in the first six months of running these sessions that there was a desire to go deeper into creativity.

On 14 February, 2022, @bitterirony and I launched Practice Not Perfect, the more artistic little sister of CWH. What we wanted to accomplish was to allow the same creatives from the flagship sessions to context switch and do something else, maybe something for themselves. So on Valentine's Day four years ago, we began #pnp...for the love ❤️ of visual and performing arts.

The crew changes from day to day, as we hold the space open daily at 4pm UTC, but I'll introduce you to those who got a slice of birthday cake today! 🎂

The upper left tile is @ hillarythecadwitch and her feline friend, Jimi, named after Jimi Hendrix. He's the most frequent feline on camera and never missed a #caturday, which we've been celebrating from the start, before we knew there was a Hive #caturday community. Regularly, we have no less than a half-dozen cats in the sessions on any given day 🐈.

In the upper middle is @drmelanie who's both an NYC doctor and an accomplished artist, a Master's grad of Cal Arts. Her work is seen broadsiding buildings in the East Village of New York.

In the upper right is me, @alessandrawhite, on Bb soprano clarinet. I got called yesterday to play a concert in Bingley, West Yorkshire, tomorrow. I'll report back on how that pans out.

In the lower left is @bitterirony on classical guitar. He's been a student of the great David Brandon since grad school days. Since co-founding Practice Not Perfect he's also been studying with Jared Brandon for Electric Guitar. At present @bitterirony is co-writing a stage musical with Nashville songwriter, Tom Worth.

In the lower right is @gretchenshepherd, a photographer, artist, and YouTuber. Her tile is set up in ECamm with three cameras to show us the work she is doing on her photographs, as she rubs on umber pigments to create an ethereal effect.

We would enjoy having you join us for whatever you are working on, especially if no one besides us know about it! We've found some of the best artistic breakthroughs happen in the quiet safety of our online practice room and art studio, Practice Not Perfect.

You'll find the deets below in the "Consider Yourself Invited" section.

Who Are CWH and What We Do

Creative Work Hour is a community, a creative incubator, and a daily HIVE-staking project. We have hosted more than 3000 events since founded by @alessandrawhite on 1 July, 2021. Every single day we host no fewer than three events.

The first, #cuppajoe is a casual hang out, a coffee break. The second, Creative Work Hour #cwh is our flagship event that powers up daily. The third, Practice Not Perfect #pnp is our bonus event designed for muted music practice and for creative work to continue.

Here's some of the crew from today's CWH.

CWH Trifecta of Daily Events

Cuppa Joe ☕️

15 Min Coffee Break

@bitterirony Host
@bobbyb58
@drmelanie
@shadowspub
@alessandrawhite Founder

Creative Work Hour ✨

60 Min Co-Working Session

♦️@bitterirony Host
♦️@bobbyb58
@drmelanie
@gretchenshepherd
@ hillarythecadwitch
♦️@shadowspub
♦️@alessandrawhite Founder

Practice Not Perfect 🎹

60 Min Co-Working / Music Practice

@bitterirony Host
@drmelanie
@gretchenshepherd
@ hillarythecadwitch
@alessandrawhite

For every active Hive user marked with ♦️ (as determined by Hive Buzz participates during @creativeworkhour, we pledge to power up 1 HIVE to raise stakes for the community-owned, fee-less, blockchain that's built for immutable autonomy. ⛓️

📻 KCWH aka BBCWH Radio 1 — Our Rock-n-Roll Segue 🎸

One of the essential elements of #cwh is the Rock ’n’ Roll break that occurs as segue between the live events Creative Work Hour and Practice Not Perfect.

The featured track is chosen by the CWH Host of the day inspired by a topic of conversation during Cuppa Joe or from the Check Ins/Outs that frame each of the 60 minute live sessions.

Today’s Rock-n-Roll Break music was inspired by the convo we had during Cuppa Joe about the Winter Olympics in Milan. It turns out that @drmelanie's mother was a professional ice skater who performed on at least 3 continents across the ice of scores of countries. No wonder she gave such useful commentary at our community Olympic Watch Party last Sunday.⛸️

Being the kooky bunch we are, laughing and cutting up as we do, we went from high class ice skating to consumer skating rinks to roller rinks. It didn't take us long before we devolved to roller skates with shoe cleats that require a key! How could @bitterirony resist but to reward us brilliant conversationalists with just the perfect music at the break? Here, we share it with you. 🛼

Consider Yourself Invited!

Without a doubt, we're a fun crew 🚀 on a creative mission to bring your ideas to life!

We'd love it if you'd join us with whatever you got cookin'! 👩🏽‍🍳

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Learn more at Creative Work Hour✨

Register just once for free entry to our suite of 3 LIVE events per day 💝—here—💝

• Cuppa Joe: 9:45am EST | 14:45 UTC
• Creative Work Hour: 10:00am EST | 15:00 UTC
• Practice Not Perfect: 11:00am EST | 16:00 UTC

"We'll See Ya When We See Ya!"

—Alessandra White, Founder

Credits & Delegation

• Graphic design by Alessandra White, IDSA, designed the old-fashioned way, on a Greene & Stone drawing board with architectural illustration tools, digitally rendered in Figma. No AI tools were used in the creation of this post.
• Power up images are screen captures from @hivekeychain on iOS, to whom we gratefully delegate.
• Images of LIVE @creativeworkhour sessions are by consent of participants, screen captured using CleanShot from Zoom Pro.
• Travel is deep in our DNA, as CWH was founded "on the road" and has been hosted from 12 countries & counting. With our delegation we thank the team at @worldmappin for their dedication to tracking Hivians the world over. 🗺️
• Deep gratitude to @bluefinstudios for surprising us with our first ever incoming delegation. Your steadfast encouragement means the world! 🌍

©2026 Creative Work Hour, LLC, a nonprofit organisation.
Original content created by @alessandrawhite with ❤️.
Published by @creativeworkhour on Hive.