Absolute Yes to all your questions and do invite peeps over for coffee and movie watching.

I'd suggest starting a small art group if you can make time for a couple of hours or so each week? eg. collage, drawing, painting?

Or how about learning together how to make your own notebooks?

https://www.instructables.com/id/Mak...own-notebooks/

On You Tube are some excellent videos on DIY notebooks. Some of them don't look complicated.

I hope these can help.