Happiness is Everywhere

Don't you love that feeling when you sit down and you know you have time to create something amazing?! I put my blinds up in my craft room so I can see the beautiful garden outside where this little blue bird house is hanging from the palm tree in the front yard. It's a new day... a great day to create!

I plug in my sewing machine, adjust my foot pedal, change the thread and bobbin to match the color of my fabric and I start cutting all the pieces of the different fabrics I need for my project.

I take my time to prepare my fabric and I make sure I'm being precise while measuring and cutting. It's a very important step that will help to match everything accurately later on and make the following steps easier too, for a neater outcome. I enjoy each step and focus on the moment. I reach for my scissors with the big orange handles and the spring at one end that helps you cut the fabric with so much ease. It glides and follows the straight line I just drew with my tailor's chalk. I grab my other panel of fabric and I see a little bit of fraying at the end, so I reach for my smaller precision scissors, the one with that pointy sharp tip, and cut those little pieces of thread away. I have several tools all around me, sometimes we say that buying all these, is an entirely different hobby. I think we can all relate to that.

I love using all my Fiskars cutting tools in all my crafts because I know they are easier and more friendly to use. The creative people at Fiskars already thought of everything that would make the experience of cutting a better one for the person that's using them, and it's something we know we can count on. It makes the whole experience more enjoyable and easy to do. Happiness is disguised in all these little moments and actions we do and enjoy. 

Creativity is part of who I am. I wake up everyday and I already have so many ideas of what to make that day... I'm a designer for the stationery and scrapbooking industry, so my desk is actually full of crayons, watercolors, pattern papers, scissors, and more!  I'm lucky  to actually do what I love for work and I find happiness everyday while I create, while I sort my drawings and designs, when I make a pattern and I see the end result, when I cut around my design to put together the final project.  I have my own space where I create and just by being immersed in it this amazing feeling goes through my whole body and reassures me that I am where I belong.  As a hobby I started designing my own line of fabrics and then I started sewing to see them come to life in different projects. I love sewing so much, because at the end of your project you have something that you can use, you can wear, or even share and give as a gift!

I like to say that creativity runs in our genes and we are a little bit of who our loved ones are or were. My grandma was a great seamstress. She would sew all my birthday dresses when I was growing up  and she would even sew the matching bow, of course. I remember she would spend hours in her sewing room and she would teach me how to sew clothes for my dolls. Those are memories I will cherish forever. I would ring the doorbell and run inside her house, because the front door was never locked, and tell my grandma "the happiness of the house has arrived!" I would hug her really tight and we would laugh together. I spent countless hours at my grandma's and we would always have some fun activity to do and share, but going to her sewing room was the most fun. There was fabric everywhere, and she would always be working on some project. Of course she would put that aside and she would ask " What do you want to make today? " I would spend some time choosing all the different fabrics that would coordinate and make an amazing outfit for my dolls. And then we would work together on the patterns and fitting. Those afternoons and moments spent with my grandma are such happy memories that impacted on who I am today as a grownup. Sometimes I think back and I say to myself I wish we knew back then how important those "special moments" were. Special now, so normal back then...

Creativity will always encompass a little moment of happiness or a lot of those little moments together throughout the whole process. While I sew and put together my project I always think of my Grandma, I sometimes say to my self how lucky I was to have such a happy childhood. I enjoy creating from the moment I sit down and grab my tools, or even since the moment I start thinking about the project and the different ways I can go about creating it. 

Enjoy the little things, the "normal" moments you share with the ones you love, the finished projects and the messy ones too... enjoy and celebrate life that there is always something to be grateful for.