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Crafts Hacks for makers; a digital vision board with clever tips, ideas, techniques and materials for DIY creations.
The Joy Of RagRugs
I love to create! I inherited a love of keeping my hands busy from a mother and grandmother who both loved to create. I love seeing the project evolve and transform before my eyes, whether is it painting, Woodburning, polymer clay, or weaving. Creating something new is my form of therapy.
By Vicki Goodman5 years ago in Lifehack
Create | Art | Healing
It was summer and I was sixteen. Not much of a sweet sixteen, more of a mature-beyond-her-years-sixteen and I was very aware of the troubles of humankind. From my early teens I had visited the library and I remember being super excited to finally be allowed into the 'adult' section, where I found books about meditation, ancient Indian and South American traditions and topics like Buddhism and the Eye of Horus. In a strange way much of the knowledge in these books seemed 'known' to me and they gave me a context for the life I was living.
By Vivian Paans5 years ago in Lifehack
Sew. Make. Joy.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi I think of joy as a sort of matured sense of satisfaction- like the subtle flavor of a well-aged wine, joy is a deeper happiness that lingers. Sometimes, I feel that maybe true joy can only be felt in some after-thought, an appreciation that deepens with reflection, a moment that overwhelmed us with an exalted sense of goodness, sometimes to a point where words couldn’t really capture the sensation.
By Suzanne Rende5 years ago in Lifehack
BEADING FOREVER
Making handmade fashion jewelry could be an enjoyable and also successful hobby. However, absolutely nothing quite as compares to the contentment in order to affection that can come from making your personal customized grains. But, exactly just how do you make your own grains?
By Dandelionclub5 years ago in Lifehack
Scrap-Less Crafting for a Waste-Less World
Crafting is my happy place. It’s both a creative outlet and a source of income, and the ability to combine the two is a joy and a fount of motivation. The materials provide the inspiration. It’s a very happy place.
By Maria Shimizu Christensen5 years ago in Lifehack
CREATING HAPPINESS BY USING WHAT I’VE GOT
I have a confession to make… For a phone video stand, I have been propping my phone video camera up onto the slot of a cup base with a handle for a couple years now… because I am somewhat old fashioned; using what I have on hand already… you know, I am one of those Baby Boomers that was taught how to make-do-with-what-you have, and not going out to buy stuff all the time, because after a war – you’d best know how to make do.
By Shakeenah K Fentis5 years ago in Lifehack
Wrapper’s Delight!. Top Story - June 2021.
When Maria Von Trapp (through the beautiful prism of Julie Andrews) sang about brown paper packages tied up with string in ‘The Sound of Music’, I knew she was my people. I get an obscene amount of pleasure from wrapping - gifts, parcels, cards, I don’t care - if it sits still long enough, I will wrap it.
By Kate Holderness5 years ago in Lifehack
Color Therapy
COVID19 has found many of us with tanking mental health. The uncertainties, the isolation, the complete disintegration of "normal." What happens next? I have been on a mental health journey from a very dark place which includes flashbacks and complex PTSD to a place of stability and hope. This is a journey of Self-love and Divine Love. It is a journey full of creating either life or sadness. My past can be left in the past, and my today can be full of beauty. What does beauty mean to you? Not the beauty of a human smile, but life beauty? Peace, fulfillment, contentment - how do they appear in your life?
By Jamie Lynn Wilson5 years ago in Lifehack
The Joy of Dreaming
When I weave a design into the center of a wreath with hemp cord, I feel connected to both myself and others. I feel like I'm dreaming with and for a loved one when I design a wreath. Moreover, I feel like I'm bringing forth all the goodness that I see in myself and someone else into a visible, tangible form. It brings me immense joy to work on a wreath, behold the finished product, and then see my loved ones' reactions when I gift a wreath to them.
By Megan Saunders5 years ago in Lifehack
Life challenges and imperfect pieces
I love to paint, and some mediums are more forgiving to the beginner artist than others. I am still finding my way of expressing my world through colours. Watercolour is one of the most challenging mediums for me as it requires a solid basis, which I haven't got just yet, started only in my late forties. But I am obsessed with it, especially the brilliant colours.
By Irina Gladushchenko5 years ago in Lifehack
