happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
The Joy in the Process
Life can race by too fast sometimes. There's always the rush to finish the next task, accomplish the next goal, or succeed in the next endeavor. I have found that my motivation can only carry me so far before it drops, and the next looming task turns into a predator to my anxiety-prone mind, instead of an exciting challenge to overcome.
By TheaMarie Burns5 years ago in Motivation
These are my tools. This is my superpower.
Generally, I don't like to talk about my crafting projects with strangers, even fellow crafters. I like being a part of the community as much as anyone. It's a warm, welcoming, wonderful place, but I don't crave attention for my work. I want the focus to be on the good that the things I make can do for others. I'm making an exception here because the prize being offered as part of Vocal's Craft Your Happiness contest would enable me to serve my community in a much larger and more impactful way.
By Lauren Lang5 years ago in Motivation
Piece by piece
Three years ago I was pregnant , two years ago I had my first tiny, perfect child. Nursed that sweet boy for a whole year to become pregnant with my second baby immediately after stopping. Almost a year later and I am still nursing this beautiful girl. I couldn’t ask for anything more than these two little blessings. But somewhere along the way, like most mothers, I lost myself and who I was before children. This happens, this is normal and sometimes it’s even necessary.
By Sarah bechard5 years ago in Motivation
Smile Train
All Aboard. Collages are usually patterns which are never quite finished. Despite spending hours cutting and sticking to pages, hording piles of media to sift through and keeping pockets of pictures of miniature objects, the few that I complete I like to be just that. Complete. I come back to pictures I started years ago with fresh eyes, sometimes even with a new attitude to the project: this would work better as a painting, or the colour scheme should be bolder, retouched digitally. Using these collages as art works have notes attached and stories to tell. Pop Art has its roots in the poster medium, and the work I’d like to celebrate today I would categorise as so. A happy, joyful ride along, bright and for a good cause.
By Rue5 years ago in Motivation
How Sewing Saved My Life
March 16th, 2020. My life was a mess. My business had gone up in flames. I'd lost my home, my job, a lot of money and had moved in with my boyfriend and his parents in Cornwall. I was 25, having to make some great people redundant and dealing with lawyers, liquidators and the reality of unemployment. But worst of all was the heart-pounding, stomach-churning knowledge that I had failed on an epic scale.
By Jenny Evans5 years ago in Motivation
What is Happiness?
Right now in my life, I think I really needed this. Several weeks ago I began writing this prompt, and I was going to use this to talk about all of my current misfortunes; how lately I've been feeling trapped due to my financial and living situation. All I could think to write about at the time, was how I have depression, severe anxiety, and $22,000+ of student debt looming over my future, and how I was wondering what "happiness" was anymore. But after doing some introspection, I took this month to find myself again, even if it is just a few pieces of the puzzle. I don't think that I can confidently say that I have "found my happiness" again, but I can say that I feel a little better than I did at the beginning of writing this prompt. I had lost my happiness, my passion, and my purpose in life, but maybe that's why I was meant to find this challenge and take myself on a journey to find myself again; to do as the prompt states, "Create My Happiness". Maybe I am supposed to find my passion for my craft again in this moment. I am a fashion designer and an artist, currently living in the black hole that is my really small, Indiana town. I would like to take this opportunity to tell my story of an artist going through a slump and struggling to find my happiness again. Now don't worry, I won't drone on and on about my woes for too long. But I would like to explain my situation before I tell you about the things that once gave me so much joy, and how I am on the journey of finding my joy once again.
By Kaylee Anderson5 years ago in Motivation
Selkie Sillhouettes
Prior to the 2020 covid virus arrival to NYC, I was teaching disabled seniors how to make a colorful "gelatin" prints - immersed in color and narratives, and learning a lot myself in this new medium. I was unprepared for a world pandemic or using the mediou for my own work.
By Diane Matyas5 years ago in Motivation
the gloWithin
Since I was about twelve, my vision was to support others in finding greater peace, love and joy in their lives. I had NO idea what to do with this at such a young age, especially when I was expected to follow a more traditional career, or so I thought. Unravelling what this actually looks like has been an incredible journey and brought me so much personal joy (and challenges) in creating and bringing this vision to life. I have worked in finance, HR, operations management, created my own community space/ yoga studio as a space for others to share their passions, and made an amazing pivot in the last year after closing the studio due to covid.
By Katie . ERYT RCYT Craniosacral5 years ago in Motivation
