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Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics in Journal's workplace sphere.

Mindful Practices
Often, we rush too much, and we need to find ways to be able to accomplish everything that we need to but also to destress. My life has always been quite busy as I’ve been involved in a number of community events, working a full-time job, pursuing my passion of writing, and working around my family’s farm.
By Rebecca Taylor4 years ago in Journal
The art of crap knitting
Every evening during the cooler months, I change into my pyjamas and wrap a home-made shawl – the one in the picture above – around my shoulders.
By Jane Cornes-Maclean4 years ago in Journal
Slingshot
The tangent of the angle used times the center to center distance between, divided by two. That was my first time making porn. Get your mind out of that skeevy place. I’m talking about the kind of porn that brings the left-brained, or maybe those with OCD, to a place of peace: lines flow parallel, radiuses match, and the spacing is equal. It doesn’t just happen by magic. There is an art—a beautiful ballet of ridged lines that give way to supple curves.
By Andrew Rutter4 years ago in Journal
Use of Math In Everyday life
The variety of this inquiry crosses the passageways of the numerical classes. Understudies can't help thinking about how to utilize measurements, all things considered. Numerous understudies and grown-ups have never thought about utilizing math in regular day-to-day existence.
By Sita Dahal4 years ago in Journal
Keith Haring
"Drawing is still fundamentally equivalent to it has been since ancient occasions," Keith Haring said. "It unites man and the world. It lives through enchantment." That rule applies to his own life. Notwithstanding his short profession, Keith Haring's heritage perseveres.
By Jenna Miller4 years ago in Journal
What Are Low-Content Books?
I came across several videos on Youtube and TikTok showing how to make money using a combination of Canva and Amazon's KDP service. Since Amazon took over from Createspace, it has been easy to create paperback books using KDP. Well before that, Lulu Press has been printing paperbacks from Indie authors for many years now. There's a lot of options now, but the Canva and KDP combination seems to be the easiest and free one to do. Canva now has an option where you can import PDF files so you can import template files from Amazon and edit everything straight there.
By Chloe Gilholy4 years ago in Journal
Through the Eye of a Needle
When the world fell sick and silent just months after my divorce, I picked up a needle. Knitting was almost as foreign to me as injecting myself into oblivion, but so was being single at 45 and facing a pandemic alone.
By Joy Johnston4 years ago in Journal
Knitting a path to recovery
When I was young I learned how to knit and crochet. I earned some badges for Girl Guides and made some hideous dishcloths that my mother might have used once before "accidentally" losing them in the wash. Then as time passed I tried making other things. I finger knit scarves, and crocheted bathmats. I once made my best friend a mitten. I was so proud of that thing until she put it on her foot and pretended to be a monkey. I apparently had the gauge off. But I never tried to make the second one of the set. In fact, I put my knitting away completely for a few years.
By J. Langer4 years ago in Journal
Mr Squiggle and the Inner Pyramid
I decided I was to be a writer when I was four, the surest decision I have ever made. Four was a big year for me. The onset of kindergarten (yes, it felt like a disease) stands out most of all.
By Bradley McCann4 years ago in Journal
Stitch with Mik
When I was little I use to take a needle and thread and stitch things together to make blankets, pillows, and little toys, these didn't always come out great because I was young and didn't really know what I was doing but I remember how much fun taking that needle and thread and just sitting there for a whole day pulling the thread in and out was. At that time I didn't know what embroidering was and years later I still didn't, I found embroidering during this pandemic when everyone was stuck at home finding hobbies to do to keep them sane, I found embroidery.
By Mikaela Gillett4 years ago in Journal
Threading the Needle
Ahhh, where to even start on this story. Growing up – I seemed to be the only one in the family who had zero interest in learning how to sew or knit. Based on the occasional crafts you had to make in school, it also seemed that I had zero talents on that front, so maybe it was for the best. At the age of 20, I was about to move to Ireland for six months, and my mother thought that teaching me how to knit socks would be a perfect bonding experience before I took off… after three attempts, where she had twice pulled it apart and exclaimed that she had never seen any socks that ugly, I decided my career as a knitter was far behind me. And it still is!
By Catharina E Santasilia4 years ago in Journal
The Art of the Written Word
There are two things I absolutely love about the idea of art. The first being it embodies the principle of speaking profoundly and in volume. Art can say what men cannot in regular speech. The second thing I love about art is that it takes on many forms. Art is not confined to the canvas or the stone block; music, literature, dance are just a few examples of the omnipresence of art. I personally choose the written word as my medium, using Microsoft Word as my canvas, my mind as the palette, and my hands as the brush. The process in of itself is an adventure. Specifically, fleshing out and breathing life into a parallel reality---all composed in a word document!
By Donovan Graham4 years ago in Journal