happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
DREAM BIG!
Paper, felt, and dream is where it all began... and I couldn’t have accomplished it without my Fiskars scissors. I never considered illustrating a children’s book, much less with cut paper and other materials. However, I’ve loved all things artistic and creative since I was a little girl. I accepted the challenge to create a special book with my sister. What started out as just a “passion project” turned into a stepping stone!
By April Foxx5 years ago in Motivation
The Ocean Is My Muse
After an hour of body surfing in the crashing waves, my bathing suit, arms and legs are covered with sand. But I don't care. I never care about that. Spending time in the ocean nourishes me. I squint and look west. It's that special time at the end of the day when the afternoon sun is just beginning to be swallowed up by the sea. The time when the light and all the clouds are shape-shifting into a full spectrum of mandarin orange and rose-gold miracles. The time when all of Key Largo is politely sipping cocktails, watching the sun and searching for answers. I am searching too.
By DOROTHY PALMER5 years ago in Motivation
Destruction and Creation
My art has always been a light in my life. An outlet that rejuvenates me and creates happiness. The darkest times of the chronic depression that have been a part of my entire adult life, I find myself unable to create, or I punish myself by not allowing myself to create; I haven't figured out which. Maybe it just feels like a punishment because I am unable to. This whole thing is a strange cycle that after all of these years I still have yet to fully understand. What starts or stops it, I wish I knew. I equate it to a switch that I'd give anything to be able to flip off once it has been turned on.
By Sunni Farley5 years ago in Motivation
Passion
I have many passions and I will be sharing a few here. As the title and subtitle say, I believe my passions are lifetime loves. Could any of my passions make me money? I think not, but let's take a look at the list here and decide if any of the following is a dream that may make money.
By Denise E Lindquist5 years ago in Motivation
Far From Perfect, But Perfectly Me!
I have been a great many things over a great many years, writer, artist, designer the list goes on and on, but over the past 3 decades while the words and forms may shift with the passage of time, the passion never fades. A few years ago, our family moved to a larger home that afforded me my own studio/office space. While I had to make the space work for both functions, the fact that I even had that was amazing. I went from having my sewing machines set up at the dining room table, computer by the sofa, and printer sharing space on the tv stand to an entire room to myself. I was elated to finally have a proper sewing table, cutting table, and a computer desk. There was space for my ironing board and shelves to hold my fabric mini bolts beautifully. This had me tickled pink for the last several years. But as time passed, I began to feel it was missing something. It was missing me. While it was beautiful and functional and wonderful all around, it had truly little personality. The walls were practically bare aside from the formality of my degree, and short of the fabrics and threads there was not much in the way of color.
By Mandie Spudich5 years ago in Motivation
The COVID Craft Projects
Halfway through the second term of my second year in University, the pandemic began to hit my province. Classes quickly moved to remote online learning, and my job shifted slowly but effectively to fit the new government rules. As I began to save time by not taking the bus to the University, not waiting for classes to start, and multitasking more at home, I began to look for new interesting projects to do. After a little more than a year, my scissors and I found joy in embroidering, knitting hats and socks, and weaving tapestries.
By Tia Hendricks5 years ago in Motivation
Meditation Markers
I love knitting, I picked it up over thirty years ago and it is an enduring love, but this is not about that. A few years ago I decided to lean to knit lace patterns, things with holes, but holes in the right places. It took a bit of practice but I'm okay at it now. But as well as learning to put holes in the right place I also learned another skill, as sometimes these patterns have an edging and you need to mark the start of the border to ensure it all lines up. Or there might be a critical point at which there is shaping and that exact stitch needs to be marked. So I learned the skill of using stitch markers.
By Sarah Elford5 years ago in Motivation
Walking Toward Dreams
The Webster Dictionary depicts Memory as a recollection of the past, and memory on paper is substantially better. We always cherish our memories with the use of photos, videos, letters, drawings, etc. But when you begin to think about it, the aspect of the future you desire is somewhere in your heart, clinging on to the hope of it someday becoming true. This thought occurred to me during my Christmas break, while all my memories during this year came flooding back with a bundle of emotions. We all make numerous resolutions after welcoming the new year, and as a result, we end up forgetting them through the course of the year. That’s when the idea of a Vision board came to me. I had seen it on TV before yet never truly gave it a thought as of recently.
By Vaishnavi 5 years ago in Motivation
Bad B
B-holes. Life is full of them. People that think they are Better. Institutions that see themselves as the Best. Beliefs that unyieldingly declare they are Beyond the suffering of this world. B-holes behave with determined focus to prove a point or set an example, at the expense of the world at large, community at medium, or family at small.
By Julia Rae5 years ago in Motivation
Still Lives in Lockdown
2019 was a hectic year for me. That migt be a little unexpected, but it was the first year of my son’s life, I was breastfeeding and learning to deal with a new and changing body, and both my husband and I weren’t employed. We had enough money from an inheritance my mother left after her passing in 2017 to spend a year or so to get to know our son together, but the year passed quickly and soon we were in a rush to find a job (at least my husband was). He started early, applying in the autumn, confident that he would find something suitable. That confidence waned as the months came and went, and we neared the end of our little nest egg.
By Sam Mosca (she/her)5 years ago in Motivation
