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Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics in Journal's workplace sphere.
Wood Florist- From Hobby to Home Business
As a brand new bride-to-be in 2016, I began exploring all of my wedding vendor options. My criteria list was short: budget friendly, customizable package options, and high value to reasonable cost ratio. Kind of a tall order in the wedding industry.
By Michelle Bullock Ammerman5 years ago in Journal
The Frog on Roller Skates
It started with a sketch of a frog on roller skates. It is now an online shop full of handmade products, a podcast series, community-based events, and a long-term dream. It has taken me a while to find my pathway, dabbling in many crafts like music and prop making, but nothing has particularly stuck until I re-discovered rollerskating, or more specifically, park and ramp skating. I say re-rediscovered as I have been skating since I could walk. My dad was adamant that I would learn how to skate just like he did, and we went to the local rink every week together.
By Daiz Westbury5 years ago in Journal
Develop to Destroy; Rinse, Repeat, Rise
In 2018 I tried to commit suicide. I was sent to the psych ward after having a mental breakdown at my dream job working as an on set electrician on big time movies and tv. It was my dream job and I was working with my dream crew yet somehow I was not happy. As creative as the job may seem is more about making someone else’s creative vision come to life. As much as I learned there I was not feeling creatively fulfilled and after 14-16 hours a day five days a week and sometimes outside in the midst of a brutal Chicago winter, it started weighing heavily on me.
By Mawie Talion5 years ago in Journal
paper, scissors, happy
I've always loved how creative stage design, even with a minimum of materials, can build a magical world. My current craft is inspired by this art form, sculpting painted paper to make small dreamscapes that transport me to my happiest of places.
By P. D. Murray5 years ago in Journal
Painting With Scissors
I have a pair of gold scissors saved. I toyed with the idea of pairing them with the slightly macabre pop art-esque yellow-haired baby dolls head… but I think both of those are rare finds so I’m saving them. So far I’ve stuck mostly to deers.
By Debbie Parnell5 years ago in Journal
For Instant Happiness: Just Add Watercolour
I've been an artist for as long as I can remember, making creations from simple drawings to complex line art to mosaics and everything between, but I never found my niche. I've always been a jack of all trades but a master of none until one day it all finally came together...
By Jessica humphries 5 years ago in Journal
Cutting through the darkness
As far back as I can remember, As far back as I can remember, I've always had a drive to artistically create, but it didn't always involve scissors. In preschool, despite good marks across the board, the one area that I needed to work was my cutting skills. I've always been very determined to work hard in order to overcome any obstacles - I like to think that my love of macrame was born very early on from my desire to create and my determination to improve my skills with scissors. It was also this determination, along with the help and encouragement from my family and friends, that inspired me to create my own small macramé craft business: Prairie 724 Knots. Cutting through the cotton cords, creating wall art, plant hangers and earrings using macramé knots and scissors to shape each project pulled me through such an incredibly challenging year.
By Shannon Brodie5 years ago in Journal
Scissors and a Ruler
My mother’s hands, with just a pair of scissors and wooden ruler, cut squares of pink, blue, yellow, green, some from the scraps of my childhood—from the sundresses and jumpers she’d made me. Three-inch squares of florals and solids, stripes and ginghams in hundreds of colors. She never told me. She just cut and sewed half square triangles for years, a bit at a time.
By Lia Huntington5 years ago in Journal
The Journaling is the Journey
Journaling began for me, or so I thought, as a way to record memories while travelling. To record the ‘highlights’, sure. Cutting out and sticking in tickets and photos of us standing next to landmarks, as if our photo wasn’t just one drop in an ocean of instances where countless others stood and grinned in the exact same spot.
By Kia Creates5 years ago in Journal
From Factory to Fashion
Growing up, as a Irish girl, in a small city called Newry, I never quite connected with the girls or boys that enjoyed playing with dolls, or kicking a ball. It was all too loud, too busy. I would usually be found sitting at my dad's factory workbench, while my brother was playing football outdoors.
By Katie McGUIGAN5 years ago in Journal
