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Instant Noodle Recycling Art
I am living in Vancouver, Canada as a first generation immigrant woman in my 40s from South Korea. I have never married and I am single, living with two cats in a shared house with three to seven different people in this house (depending on room occupancies of this rental house) All of my past and current roommates are not Korean but mostly Canadian born and raised citizens or immigrants from other countries. When I first moved into this shared house two years ago, I moved my living city from Toronto to Vancouver with two of my cats. In Toronto, the big metropolitan city that most people don't seem to care much of consuming synthetic chemicals and processed food, and I also wasn't very self conscious about my ethnic food consumption in that urban environment. However, after I moved to this house where my roommates at that time were in a quite strictly health conscious and environmentally friendly food consumption lifestyle, I often felt cringed and ashamed of my eating Korean processed food like instant noodle. Whenever I could sense a disdained look or funny comment on my meal choices or grocery shopping items from my roommates, I felt often torn.
By Khema Young-Hwa Cho5 years ago in Lifehack
FUN WITH BARBED WIRE
I love the texture of old rusty iron, the subtle ripples of its surface where air has nibbled it away over decades. I love the red-orange colour which is earthy and natural, a far cry from primary colours and shiny galvanized silver of new metal.
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Lifehack
If Happiness was a Sofa.
Cry Now. Laugh Later. As for everyone, the year 2020 was an experience that I didn’t think I would see in my lifetime. Every time I think about the events of twenty-twenty a flash Back to the future, the movie, always come to mind. “Whatever you do Marty, don’t ever go to 2020!” I laugh now, but I cried just about three-fourths of the year, then. As awful as it was, as my anxiety rose to the highest levels as it could I found solace in creating work for myself, for family members, and for others.
By Ojhoana Flemming 5 years ago in Lifehack
Confessions Of A Scrap Addict...
DAY ONE: Dear Diary, The damage has been done and there is no going back. I took that fatal first step of attending a scrapbooking lesson today. Everything I thought I knew about creating and happiness, has been thrown out the window. I am now a junkie who will need her daily fix of scrapping. Please send help! But I honestly fear I cannot be saved.
By Julianne McKenna5 years ago in Lifehack
I Turned My Art Project into My Passion
Have you ever heard the saying "before Alice got to wonderland, she had to fall."? Well, that was me a year ago. I was in a place where I felt stuck and didn't know what to do with my life anymore until I started working on a crafty project that changed my life, opened my eyes, and helped me tune into my true self.
By T'Nasha Thomas5 years ago in Lifehack
Please, Call Me an Amateur
I’ve long outgrown my desire to grow up. When I was sixteen, I couldn’t wait until I was older when my life would be put together and wrapped in a picket fence. In college, I dreamt of being an intimidating businesswoman, pencil skirt included, who had every answer and could join a room of hotshot office execs like it was just another Tuesday. Then I realized how boring that sounded. It dawned upon me one sunny morning that I would much rather live life like a kid, jumping into muddy puddles, laughing so loud that everyone stares, collecting rocks and bits of trash that only sparkle for my eyes, and not caring what anyone else thinks about me.
By Katie Collins5 years ago in Lifehack
Creating Happiness
Creating happiness 2021.06.09 The steps to happiness though the craft of wrapping gifts. Most of us have wrapped a gift and over the years we get better at this gesture of love that we give to our friends, to our family and our love. For many years I have thought about this act and how we take it for granted. We normally think of it more as a chore or a task on a list to check off. Perhaps a bothersome moment or inconvenience for some. I think over the years I have become very skilled from years of practice. This is for the ones who never think they have artistic talent but do. There are acts we do without ever thinking they could be considered an art form. Wrapping a gift for someone is in fact an art form that we all partake in. I love receiving gifts but not as much as giving them. The whole act brings me happiness.
By Theartistjosko5 years ago in Lifehack
A Golden Compass, Sunshine and a little Magic
The joy of creating takes you into a world of mystic wonder where you have a chance to tell a story. The mind chatter dissipates as you cut leather and find the perfect materials to pair with it to create a unique special something for those you love. My biggest inspiration when creating always comes from those whimsical characters in my life, those real-life people that ooze magic and vibrancy into the world. This project I decided to create for a cousin of mine. Now she is no ordinary human. We would go to festivals with a whole tribe of our family, mostly sisters, and spend our time in giant circus tents dancing in top hats and stripy pants until the sun began to poke through the gum trees. This one particularly sparkly night I saw her dancing in patchwork overalls and her very special top hat covered in animal fur and feathers. She danced with a cheeky grin and a belly full of laughter. In this moment she became a forest wizard, perhaps related to Radagast, dancing completely in her joy, allowing the world to witness her playful expression. One could surmise that I am rather inspired by her trickster personality, a family trait we seem to share. When looking for her birthday present, I found a beautiful golden compass, nestled in one of those huge glass cabinets full of trinkets and misfit items. ‘Yes!’ I thought, a perfect gift for a wizard, something to guide her through adventurous dreams.
By Isabel Corkill5 years ago in Lifehack
Everyone Is Fighting A Battle
I created Cozy to Go! wraps in 2007 for both disposable and reusable glasses as a means of not contributing to the waste created by cardboard protectors. I’ve sold them online, in local shops, and at festivals and markets. The variety of customers who purchase my creations always makes me proud to have produced an item that works for everyone.
By Jeannie Bushnell5 years ago in Lifehack
