happiness

Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.

Creating: My Bliss. Top Story - June 2021.
This inspired life I create what I love and love what I create. I'm delighted to receive compliments on being prolific. Who knows whether being prolific is what makes me happy, or if being happy is what makes me prolific? Either way, my maker's life is my bliss.
By Christy Munson5 years ago in Motivation
Waiting
I've never had an easy time letting things go. Things stay in the closet until I either work up the nerve to throw them out or give them away. But sometimes, rarely, things remain long enough that they have a renewed purpose.
By Jessie Johnson5 years ago in Motivation
A Tomato for Your Anxiety
I wiped another bead of sweat off my head, put down a pair of scissors and sank into the plush grass to admire my hard work. After a week of rain and a now warm late spring sun, the abundance of growth is staggering. I had just finished assembling a trellis, for a soon to be wall of tomatoes, when I decided to take some time for reflection. The trellis spans the back of my two newly installed garden beds. I’ve been thinking about garden fresh tomatoes since late fall. Nothing compares to sinking your teeth into produce you grew in your own backyard.
By Jenn Kruczynski5 years ago in Motivation
Sight-impaired Artist Creates Happiness-SACH
Through my art I have the ability to transform images and ideas that I create in a space of pure consciousness, to be fully expressed in our third dimensional plane of existence. In creating artistically my living reality by extension is healthier, happier, fuller, more enriched, more vibrant and abundantly prosperous. Art is my lifeline and I derive great pleasure in tapping into it to support my wellbeing, and to share this amazing resource to support the sustained wellbeing of others.
By Sacheen Smith5 years ago in Motivation
The art of embroidering the world's beauty
In Portugal, the summer school holidays are three months long. Our parents keep working, and they have to get us something to do. My mom, since we had financial difficulties, sometimes asked a cousin of hers to let me be there, and she could teach me sewing. I started to learn simple things like stitching the buttons and making their “house” into the fabric. At that time, I wasn’t so eager to learn that – I wish I had since today I could use those techniques to seam my clothes.
By Sofia Duarte5 years ago in Motivation
Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks are the haunt of the elderly. This was my impression growing up. Cutting and sticking my life down on paper seemed to be an exercise in boredom. Something that an only child with Mum and Grandparents could not abide by.
By Ben Shelley5 years ago in Motivation
Collaging a Life
Collaging a Life – Metaphorically Speaking Happiness is fleeting. In life, you have choices. Happiness is a choice.
By Diane Reindl5 years ago in Motivation
My Fiskars
From the moment I was taken under her wing, my friend, my mentor, my idol, Debbie, insisted I use Fiskars. She said, ‘You sew so much, you volunteer so much, you need a good pair of scissors, you deserve a good pair of scissors. Here, use mine!’
By Robyn Weinbaum5 years ago in Motivation
Paper Collage Saved my Creativity
I loved doing collage as a kid. I could spend hours carefully cutting pictures out of old magazines or catalogues with a pair of scissors, and gluing them into a cheap scrapbook to create surreal images. I continued this hobby into my teens, this time my collaging revolving around boybands and other male pin-ups who were snipped out and added to diaries and notebooks to create covers and breaks between pieces of writing.
By Sophie Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
"Extraordinary Endeavours with Scissors"
An artistic hobby using scissors you say? I'm not a hairdresser nor a fabric fanatic, although in primary school I did cut my hair to stick onto my handmade doll (and got caught by the principal when my friend and I were discarding the wool to the side and choosing real hair instead; not to mention we were secretly and hilariously hiding under the library table at the time), and I did make my own clothes once, but my hobby involves a passion that I've had long before I knew how to use real scissors.
By Nirah Celeste5 years ago in Motivation
An Ode to Mediocre Art
I find joy in all of it. The burst of inspiration that swells in the moments leading up to a new project. The musty perfume lingering on second-hand yarn torn from its cheap plastic bundle. I find the two-dollar tag in the dusty corners of my craft space when I sweep weeks later. I may or may not have finished said project, but I’ve most definitely started another project since then--probably more than one.
By Stephanie5 years ago in Motivation
Wide Eyed
I’m here to tell you the story of how I became a fashion designer. This is a story which I have summarized and share as I continue to gain new perceptions of what lead me here. I am a new fashion designer with wide eyes, and as dreams continue to unfold–in ten, even five years from now, I am sure this story will, again, be different. As it stands today, this is a story of empowerment, curiosity, and play.
By Katie Rose5 years ago in Motivation