Craft Corner

[Shaz51]

hello my @outlander 

[CheerBear]

Hi everyone

@Bella1978 It's really nice to see you here. Your coasters are beautiful! Mosaicing would be so much fun. I find crafting so therapeutic also (mostly - when it's not massively frustrating me!). Hope you enjoy getting back into it 🙂

Looking forward to seeing hankie progress and colour choices @Former-Member. I'm sure they're beautiful. I'm a big fan of carrying around little comfort reminders for when anxiety strikes.

I'm on a self-imposed crafting ban until I get some house cleaning done. It's amazing how much more house work I can do when I'm not sitting with my hooks 😉

Waving hi to @Shaz51 and @outlander and all who pass by. Hope the day has had ok/good in it for all.

[Former-Member]

OOH @CheerBear that is so good to hear! I can imagine. It's the seeming little things that can make us so happy hey. Your little one prancing with imaginative delight with their rainbow unicorned feet, and you watching them with the biggest smile on your face - I can see it and imagine the heartwarming feeling it is for you to provide such delight with your own hands. 

This, to me, is part of the very essence of hand crafting. Making something with your own hands that gives pleasure, joy, and heartwarmth to someone for whom you care. It works for charity things too, because you can care for and about someone without having to 'know' them on a personal level. 

Teaching a craft has similar heartwarming feelings for me too. 

[Shaz51]

waving back to my awesome friend @CheerBear 

[Former-Member]

Hey @CheerBear crafting ban, oh noes! 

But, yeah, I read about the letter of inspection, yuk. Want to know a trick I used to use with multiple people in the house? Gonna tell you anyway! 

1 box labelled, even contacted and decorated, for each persons' things (your own too) to be tossed placed into when they were out of place in any room. At the end of the day/ week/ chosen time period, those things were put back into neatness however you choose to have it, in their rooms.

A reward for doing without being told to do was also arranged - all timings and activities were made out in a sheet on the fridge which taught them some level of autonomy.

When one saw another get their reward when they themselves had not earned it, an explanation helped them understand for next time and things slowly but surely changed. I discovered I had a very mercenary child who would even tidy for the others if they got their reward. 

I also kept a pot planter in the lounge room for a quick tidy up, toys from floor could be literally thrown into the pot and voila, tidy room. I did live in the house from hell though and tidy it had to be before he came home - I never let anyone oil the squeeky gate, thus we had about 3 minutes warning. Fun times  

@Bunniekins so sorry you're not feeling the best. Rest, it's okay to rest,Pea. I spend time drooling over some crafty goodness sometimes to give myself a bit of a lift sometimes that isn't enough though I do understand. 

@Bunniekins @Shaz51 @outlander the jigsaw has not progressed very far, still sorting pieces, but it has progressed. I don't want it to go too fast yet though there will be times when I spend hours sitting at it I'm sure. I really like to have multiple stations of available pass times set up for moving from one to the other and for the first time, I'm manageing to allow myself to do that. 

I have a few SunsOut and Ravensburger jigsaws, I can redo jigsaws, it's one thing I can redo and still gain some pleasure from. 

Craft Good Wishes to anyone who passes by. 

[Shaz51]

the jigsaw has not progressed very far, -- same her my @Former-Member 

no puzzle for today , but maybe tomorrow my friend xx

[Former-Member]

Nice to see you here @Shaz51, I just find things I want to learn to do Shaz, then try to do it. I do get creative when it comes to finding solutions to problems I have. Unable to find a spice holder for sachets big enough or suitable in any way to my home, I made one to hang on the inside of the pantry door. 

I was exposed to inventiveness when I was quite small, the husband of the lady who looked after me when ma couldn't had been a Japanese prisoner of war and I'm told I followed him around like a shadow. He made all manner of things out of practically nothing, and I think I learned the ways of such things by watching him and listening to him talk, although never of those experiences. 

I'm sure you are creative too, sweetheart, you just have other things to be creative about! 

[Bunniekins]

@Former-Member Hi SunShower hoping you are doing well today. I am feeling a bit better than I have been which is great, now motivation is the key which will come when the weather cools (I don't have airconditioning). I love doing jigsaw puzzles now unfortunately I don't have the room but in the past growing up we always had a jigsaw out on one of the tables for people to put a piece into as they passed by. They are a nice winter pleasure I think.

[Shaz51]

you are right my @Former-Member

in my life I have done lots of creative things , hope to get back to it one day xoxo

[OhanaSystem]

so pretty, @Former-Member! thank you for the tag so i could see