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Inner Peace
Whenever I have been asked what creative activity I turn to when searching for inner peace, I have always had trouble answering. In all truth, anything that is creative is peaceful too, and it depends on my mood and the situation at hand. I find peace in painting mini-village pieces, drawing traditional and digital art, writing poems, working on my stories, taking photographs, and creating a needlepoint canvas design.
By Elizabeth Townsend5 years ago in Lifehack
LET'S GET CREATIVE!
Good Morning ladies and gentlemen. In today's class we are going to crochet tunsian graphcan pattern. The first thing to know about crocheting is that patterns are designed for different levels of expertise. There are beginner patterns which is like the granny square used to make blankets or ponchos and there intermediate level and expert levels. This pattern can be determined as either intermediate or expert (difficult). Like the corner-to-corner crochet pattern and the Graphgan. The corner-to-corner crochet is a lesson for a different day and personally I find it a little more challenging.
By Khadijah Ameena Hamidah5 years ago in Lifehack
Molding Happiness
Creative has never been a word that I would have used when describing myself. I was a secretary for many years, my most creative endeavor was designing spec sheets for a weapons manufacturer back in the early '90s. But after some surgeries left me with a pain in the ass condition called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) I became homebound and bored. Last year at the beginning of the COVID stuff, I was putting up a blow-up pool for my grandson. Tripped and fell and broke my humerus. One of the therapy tools they give you while you are in a sling, is a rubber ball to squeeze in the hand of the fractured arm, to keep the muscles moving. You know the old saying, if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it. My grandson had some air-dry and polymer clay that we had gotten for arts and crafts. I grabbed a small ball of clay and started playing with it. It was great, the smooth texture, reminded me of playdough as a kid, after 5 minutes the stiffness from arthritis in my hands had left. Damn this is awesome, I thought.
By Belinda Setzer5 years ago in Lifehack
Why My Hot Glue Gun Is My Best Friend
With all the crazy in my life, I don't have much time for crafts anymore. Unless it is a school-related project or one of those rare times I get the chance to do something creative with my daughter. However, this little glue gun is in constant use in my house.
By J.B. Miller5 years ago in Lifehack
Christmas Decoration and Christmas Lighting
Introducing Paper Christmas Decorations and Lighting Every year, millions of dollars are spent on Christmas decorations and being a unique manufacturer and wholesale supplier of Paper Christmas decorations, capturing this lucrative market share becomes indispensable. Inmark is the leading design studio and manufacturer bring to the world, exclusive yet essential paper lighting and hand craft decorations. We have established ourselves in the Christmas decoration wholesale deals with such designer variety that will create an appeal amongst global customers. Lighting up the perimeter of your house is important in such festivities and can be done in diverse ways. Paper decorations can be simple yet delightful craft projects in the festive season. These decorations can be adapted to any style. Whether the décor is elegant, minimalist, colourful, or exuberant, the manmade paper Christmas decoration and lighting fits in beautifully.
By Inmark Exports Private Limited5 years ago in Lifehack
The Power of Zen
If you are anything like me, you keep going and going until you drop. You have a checklist/do-list a mile long and it seems like you always put more things on it than you can remove. At the end of the day that glass (or bottle) of wine just isn't cutting it anymore and you need something to relax you, something that will allow you to simply take a step back and breathe.
By L. M. Williams5 years ago in Lifehack
Having An Origami
Not to be mistaken with the Indian Kama Sutra, art of being folded into a pretzel with your partner, this Ancient Japanese art of Origami will leave you with the same outcome and a feeling of release and tension . You’ll just keep coming back for more.
By Amanda M Bugg5 years ago in Lifehack
Threading the Needle
My memories of sewing go back forty-five years at gas speed .... It was time to move to street in Chennai .... It was time to move to Chennai as my mother got a teaching job at Thana lakshmi Middle School where my father worked .... Until then My pinch legs wandering in the soil of the time when I set foot on the unpaved Madras tar roads without getting caught .... It was time to call my grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, aunty and measure me with my relationships. .. A sewing machine in the main room of the house, except for some cooking utensils that my mother brought with me .... Usha sewing machine that my father bought after listening to my mother's request .... It is not for sewing for my mother's entertainment ... To fix the financial deficit of the house .... Then the teaching work, the sewing work throughout the evening ... the tuition children around the mother on the side ... the mother's legs and arms to run on the sewing machine, the vision is to look at the students .... until the night Dad returns home, the sound of the sewing machine will continue to sound ... Attracting customers to mom's sewing job is addictive .... My mother would automatically teach me to sew underwear, short skirts, sleeveless tops, and lace sewn gowns .... because I was a little fat .... Started .... In a few days, Taylor became the property of the people in the neighborhood ..... During Diwali and Pongal, they would stay up all night sewing .... That would cover the small expenses of the family ..... .... paralyzed at home for some time in motionless silence .... Then Usha Company released a new sewing machine .... After sewing ... the upper part of the machine can be tilted inside and placed inside a box-like structure and covered with a wooden board horizontally on it, it can also be used as a desk .... They waited for hours and bought it .... everyone at home was so happy to see it .... What to do with the old machine .... Parents do not have the habit of selling anything .... So it was donated by a distant relative who was abandoned by her husband and raised her only daughter struggling alone ... The new sewing machine was initially in operation for a long time ... As the days went by the pulse subsided, and that too was paralyzed in the corner of the newly built “elixir” house ... turned into a place to put folded clothes and notebooks ...... sewing was one of the occasional fresh hobbies of my childhood .... so dusty , The machine parts were repaired and I came back to life with that sewing machine ... I sewed easy clothes like skirt, sunsuit first .... Mom's old silk sarees transformed into skirts for me ...Later I trained with a tailoring teacher Mrs. Vairamati who worked at Thanalakshmi School and sewed blouses for myself ..... I'm halfway through everything .... sewing is no exception .... Adien lost interest, so the sewing machine went back to deep sleep .... Mom's student Lilavati, who just lost her father, mother who works as a nurse at Stanley Hospital ... often with her daughter to pity her heart He would come to my mother .... whenever he came he would gaze at this sewing machine .... it felt like it was meant for mom .... the next day the sewing machine was handed over to the nurse sister ... dad didn't ask anything about it .... I agree with that a bit No ... I had a fight with my mother ... My mother replied that being idle would be useful to anyone .... Occasionally there is a split in the husband's shirt pants and son's tracksuits, sewing by hand ... running to the tailor's shop for small jobs .... that sewing machine comes to mind ... the desire to buy one prevails .... but, that too some Days will be paralyzed in the corner, what is this unwanted desire of yours? ”I will immediately change my mind that this is true ... just as street food stores today protect the livelihoods of many women, as well as this sewing industry that once gave a hand to many helpless women .... Designer blouses, formerly worn by upper-class women and actresses, adorn the laity of today, so today the tailoring industry has grown into a lucrative business .... “Half man clothing half” is not just a proverb .... it is also a fact that I have seen in practice .. .It's my policy that even if you die, you'll still shine. A sewing machine in the main room of the house, except for some cooking utensils that my mother brought with me .... Usha sewing machine that my father bought after listening to my mother's request .... It is not for sewing for my mother's entertainment ... To fix the financial deficit of the house .... Then the teaching work, the sewing work throughout the evening ... the tuition children around the mother on the side ... the mother's legs and arms to run on the sewing machine, the vision is to look at the students .... until the night Dad returns home, the sound of the sewing machine will continue to sound ... Attracting customers to mom's sewing job is addictive .... My mother would automatically teach me to sew underwear, short skirts, sleeveless tops, and lace sewn gowns .... because I was a little fat .... Started .... In a few days, Taylor became the property of the people in the neighborhood ..... During Diwali and Pongal, they would stay up all night sewing .... That would cover the small expenses of the family ..... .... paralyzed at home for some time in motionless silence .... Then Usha Company released a new sewing machine .... After sewing ... the upper part of the machine can be tilted inside and placed inside a box-like structure and covered with a wooden board horizontally on it, it can also be used as a desk .... They waited for hours and bought it .... everyone at home was so happy to see it .... What to do with the old machine .... Parents do not have the habit of selling anything .... So it was donated by a distant relative who was abandoned by her husband and raised her only daughter struggling alone ... The new sewing machine was initially in operation for a long time ... As the days went by the pulse subsided, and that too was paralyzed in the corner of the newly built “elixir” house ... turned into a place to put folded clothes and notebooks ...... sewing was one of the occasional fresh hobbies of my childhood .... so dusty , The machine parts were repaired and I came back to life with that sewing machine ... I sewed easy clothes like skirt, sunsuit first .... Mom's old silk sarees transformed into skirts for me ...Later I trained with a tailoring teacher Mrs. Vairamati who worked at Thanalakshmi School and sewed blouses for myself ..... I'm halfway through everything .... sewing is no exception .... Adien lost interest, so the sewing machine went back to deep sleep .... Mom's student Lilavati, who just lost her father, mother who works as a nurse at Stanley Hospital ... often with her daughter to pity her heart He would come to my mother .... whenever he came he would gaze at this sewing machine .... it felt like it was meant for mom .... the next day the sewing machine was handed over to the nurse sister ... dad didn't ask anything about it .... I agree with that a bit No ... I had a fight with my mother ... My mother replied that being idle would be useful to anyone .... Occasionally there is a split in the husband's shirt pants and son's tracksuits, sewing by hand ... running to the tailor's shop for small jobs .... that sewing machine comes to mind ... the desire to buy one prevails .... but, that too some Days will be paralyzed in the corner, what is this unwanted desire of yours? ”I will immediately change my mind that this is true ... just as street food stores today protect the livelihoods of many women, as well as this sewing industry that once gave a hand to many helpless women .... Designer blouses, formerly worn by upper-class women and actresses, adorn the laity of today, so today the tailoring industry has grown into a lucrative business .... “Half man clothing half” is not just a proverb .... it is also a fact that I have seen in practice .. .It's my policy that even if you die, you'll still shine. A sewing machine in the main room of the house, except for some cooking utensils that my mother brought with me .... Usha sewing machine that my father bought after listening to my mother's request .... It is not for sewing for my mother's entertainment ... To fix the financial deficit of the house .... Then the teaching work, the sewing work throughout the evening ... the tuition children around the mother on the side ... the mother's legs and arms to run on the sewing machine, the vision is to look at the students .... until the night Dad returns home, the sound of the sewing machine will continue to sound ... Attracting customers to mom's sewing job is addictive .... My mother would automatically teach me to sew underwear, short skirts, sleeveless tops, and lace sewn gowns .... because I was a little fat .... Started .... In a few days, Taylor became the property of the people in the neighborhood ..... During Diwali and Pongal, they would stay up all night sewing .... That would cover the small expenses of the family ..... .... paralyzed at home for some time in motionless silence .... Then Usha Company released a new sewing machine .... After sewing ... the upper part of the machine can be tilted inside and placed inside a box-like structure and covered with a wooden board horizontally on it, it can also be used as a desk .... They waited for hours and bought it .... everyone at home was so happy to see it .... What to do with the old machine .... Parents do not have the habit of selling anything .... So it was donated by a distant relative who was abandoned by her husband and raised her only daughter struggling alone ... The new sewing machine was initially in operation for a long time ... As the days went by the pulse subsided, and that too was paralyzed in the corner of the newly built “elixir” house ... turned into a place to put folded clothes and notebooks ...... sewing was one of the occasional fresh hobbies of my childhood .... so dusty , The machine parts were repaired and I came back to life with that sewing machine ... I sewed easy clothes like skirt, sunsuit first .... Mom's old silk sarees transformed into skirts for me ...Later I trained with a tailoring teacher Mrs. Vairamati who worked at Thanalakshmi School and sewed blouses for myself ..... I'm halfway through everything .... sewing is no exception .... Adien lost interest, so the sewing machine went back to deep sleep .... Mom's student Lilavati, who just lost her father, mother who works as a nurse at Stanley Hospital ... often with her daughter to pity her heart He would come to my mother .... whenever he came he would gaze at this sewing machine .... it felt like it was meant for mom .... the next day the sewing machine was handed over to the nurse sister ... dad didn't ask anything about it .... I agree with that a bit No ... I had a fight with my mother ... My mother replied that being idle would be useful to anyone .... Occasionally there is a split in the husband's shirt pants and son's tracksuits, sewing by hand ... running to the tailor's shop for small jobs .... that sewing machine comes to mind ... the desire to buy one prevails .... but, that too some Days will be paralyzed in the corner, what is this unwanted desire of yours? ”I will immediately change my mind that this is true ... just as street food stores today protect the livelihoods of many women, as well as this sewing industry that once gave a hand to many helpless women .... Designer blouses, formerly worn by upper-class women and actresses, adorn the laity of today, so today the tailoring industry has grown into a lucrative business .... “Half man clothing half” is not just a proverb .... it is also a fact that I have seen in practice .. .It's my policy that even if you die, you'll still shine. A sewing machine in the main room of the house, except for some cooking utensils that my mother brought with me .... Usha sewing machine that my father bought after listening to my mother's request .... It is not for sewing for my mother's entertainment ... To fix the financial deficit of the house .... Then the teaching work, the sewing work throughout the evening ... the tuition children around the mother on the side ... the mother's legs and arms to run on the sewing machine, the vision is to look at the students .... until the night Dad returns home, the sound of the sewing machine will continue to sound ... Attracting customers to mom's sewing job is addictive .... My mother would automatically teach me to sew underwear, short skirts, sleeveless tops, and lace sewn gowns .... because I was a little fat .... Started .... In a few days, Taylor became the property of the people in the neighborhood ..... During Diwali and Pongal, they would stay up all night sewing .... That would cover the small expenses of the family ..... .... paralyzed at home for some time in motionless silence .... Then Usha Company released a new sewing machine .... After sewing ... the upper part of the machine can be tilted inside and placed inside a box-like structure and covered with a wooden board horizontally on it, it can also be used as a desk .... They waited for hours and bought it .... everyone at home was so happy to see it .... What to do with the old machine .... Parents do not have the habit of selling anything .... So it was donated by a distant relative who was abandoned by her husband and raised her only daughter struggling alone ... The new sewing machine was initially in operation for a long time ... As the days went by the pulse subsided, and that too was paralyzed in the corner of the newly built “elixir” house ... turned into a place to put folded clothes and notebooks ...... sewing was one of the occasional fresh hobbies of my childhood .... so dusty , The machine parts were repaired and I came back to life with that sewing machine ... I sewed easy clothes like skirt, sunsuit first .... Mom's old silk sarees transformed into skirts for me ...Later I trained with a tailoring teacher Mrs. Vairamati who worked at Thanalakshmi School and sewed blouses for myself ..... I'm halfway through everything .... sewing is no exception .... Adien lost interest, so the sewing machine went back to deep sleep .... Mom's student Lilavati, who just lost her father, mother who works as a nurse at Stanley Hospital ... often with her daughter to pity her heart He would come to my mother .... whenever he came he would gaze at this sewing machine .... it felt like it was meant for mom .... the next day the sewing machine was handed over to the nurse sister ... dad didn't ask anything about it .... I agree with that a bit No ... I had a fight with my mother ... My mother replied that being idle would be useful to anyone .... Occasionally there is a split in the husband's shirt pants and son's tracksuits, sewing by hand ... running to the tailor's shop for small jobs .... that sewing machine comes to mind ... the desire to buy one prevails .... but, that too some Days will be paralyzed in the corner, what is this unwanted desire of yours? ”I will immediately change my mind that this is true ... just as street food stores today protect the livelihoods of many women, as well as this sewing industry that once gave a hand to many helpless women .... Designer blouses, formerly worn by upper-class women and actresses, adorn the laity of today, so today the tailoring industry has grown into a lucrative business .... “Half man clothing half” is not just a proverb .... it is also a fact that I have seen in practice .. .It's my policy that even if you die, you'll still shine. A sewing machine in the main room of the house, except for some cooking utensils that my mother brought with me .... Usha sewing machine that my father bought after listening to my mother's request .... It is not for sewing for my mother's entertainment ... To fix the financial deficit of the house .... Then the teaching work, the sewing work throughout the evening ... the tuition children around the mother on the side ... the mother's legs and arms to run on the sewing machine, the vision is to look at the students .... until the night Dad returns home, the sound of the sewing machine will continue to sound ... Attracting customers to mom's sewing job is addictive .... My mother would automatically teach me to sew underwear, short skirts, sleeveless tops, and lace sewn gowns .... because I was a little fat .... Started .... In a few days, Taylor became the property of the people in the neighborhood ..... During Diwali and Pongal, they would stay up all night sewing .... That would cover the small expenses of the family ..... .... paralyzed at home for some time in motionless silence .... Then Usha Company released a new sewing machine .... After sewing ... the upper part of the machine can be tilted inside and placed inside a box-like structure and covered with a wooden board horizontally on it, it can also be used as a desk .... They waited for hours and bought it .... everyone at home was so happy to see it .... What to do with the old machine .... Parents do not have the habit of selling anything .... So it was donated by a distant relative who was abandoned by her husband and raised her only daughter struggling alone ... The new sewing machine was initially in operation for a long time ... As the days went by the pulse subsided, and that too was paralyzed in the corner of the newly built “elixir” house ... turned into a place to put folded clothes and notebooks ...... sewing was one of the occasional fresh hobbies of my childhood .... so dusty , The machine parts were repaired and I came back to life with that sewing machine ... I sewed easy clothes like skirt, sunsuit first .... Mom's old silk sarees transformed into skirts for me ...Later I trained with a tailoring teacher Mrs. Vairamati who worked at Thanalakshmi School and sewed blouses for myself ..... I'm halfway through everything .... sewing is no exception .... Adien lost interest, so the sewing machine went back to deep sleep .... Mom's student Lilavati, who just lost her father, mother who works as a nurse at Stanley Hospital ... often with her daughter to pity her heart He would come to my mother .... whenever he came he would gaze at this sewing machine .... it felt like it was meant for mom .... the next day the sewing machine was handed over to the nurse sister ... dad didn't ask anything about it .... I agree with that a bit No ... I had a fight with my mother ... My mother replied that being idle would be useful to anyone .... Occasionally there is a split in the husband's shirt pants and son's tracksuits, sewing by hand ... running to the tailor's shop for small jobs .... that sewing machine comes to mind ... the desire to buy one prevails .... but, that too some Days will be paralyzed in the corner, what is this unwanted desire of yours? ”I will immediately change my mind that this is true ... just as street food stores today protect the livelihoods of many women, as well as this sewing industry that once gave a hand to many helpless women .... Designer blouses, formerly worn by upper-class women and actresses, adorn the laity of today, so today the tailoring industry has grown into a lucrative business .... “Half man clothing half” is not just a proverb .... it is also a fact that I have seen in practice .. .It's my policy that even if you die, you'll still shine.
By Zarinabanu Zarinabanu5 years ago in Lifehack
Relax with Coffee and Vinyl
One past time I have that I find extremely relaxing and keeps my hands as well as my mind busy is creating vinyl pieces. I love the whole process of thinking of a design and what I could use it for, than cleaning the image up in the Cricut app.
By Tiahna - Education = Change5 years ago in Lifehack
