crafts
Crafts Hacks for makers; a digital vision board with clever tips, ideas, techniques and materials for DIY creations.
A Pair of Scissors and a Glue Stick
Have you ever been drawn to something dusty, old and forgotten? Treasures are all around us, often found in the most unexpected places. It takes courage to challenge assumptions and definitions of what things are.. and imagine what they could be.
By Erika Iris 5 years ago in Lifehack
My Favorite Creation
Choose Your Happiness: By Brandi Carter Backstory: All my life, I’ve battled with severe anxiety and depression. When high school rolled around, the pressures and expectations of being fifteen started to take their toll. I found myself trying to fit in while simultaneously trying to stand out. I guess the perfect word to describe my sophomore year was lost. As a result, I found myself a little more anxious than usual. I joined the track team, and participated in extracurricular activities. However, despite all of my efforts to help myself heal through what I believed to be the perfect “distraction,” I found that none of these things worked. I felt the most at peace baking in the kitchen making a ginormous mess.
By Brandi Carter5 years ago in Lifehack
One Stitch at a Time
Somewhere in the chaos of trauma I lost myself. I knew who I was supposed to be. How I was supposed to offer a refreshing bevereage, a listening ear, an authentic laugh. The one who knew all the rules about how white pants look trashy after Labor Day and how family secrets are best kept in the family.
By Gabrielle Graham5 years ago in Lifehack
Quilting
Quilting is a craft that began thousands of years ago. At the beginning of its history, it was primarily used to create bed coverings, window coverings, garments to be worn under armour and, later on, decorative pieces. These days, most quilters no longer make quilts because they need them to stay warm, but because they enjoy the process of making quilts and sharing their creativity.
By Briarley Walden5 years ago in Lifehack
Dust, Blood, Bone
My hands were meant to craft just as my mothers are and her mother’s were. I have learned to paint, to cut, to write, but beyond my physical capabilities, I was born to create. In my mind, I have always been an artist. It is in my blood. It is in everything I do. The way I talk, I walk, I exist is artistic in every way. Without my art, I would not be who I am today. My art has made me proud, more confident, and stronger as a human. It is my release from pain, my exclamation of excitement, my representation of love. It is how I share pieces of myself with those around me.
By Arielle Irvine5 years ago in Lifehack
Depressed? Try Building a House for Faeries!. Top Story - June 2021.
If I hadn’t gotten appendicitis at the beginning of December, 2020, I'm pretty certain I never would have spent seventy hours building a tiny little faerie house as a gift for my stepmom. That’s right, if my appendix, that vestigial organ of the bowels, hadn’t decided to get infected and inflamed and try to kill me, she would have instead gotten a pillow or a scarf or something I found on Etsy— some thirty-dollar tops purchase (times were tough) —and I would have gone another month (or two, or maybe eighteen) before I again hunkered down with my tools at my little workbench building little things meant for magical, imaginary, tiny people.
By Michael "Mickey" Sasso5 years ago in Lifehack
Inside the Marilyn Window
Hidden behind the public impression of our personalities are the bits and pieces that bring us true joy. Internal emotion is found in the spaces between outward expression. Perception takes many forms....The interpretation of artwork always varies based on the observer, and their preconceived notions of the subject. Therefore it is key to evoke your own opinions, through whatever artistic means, and shout out your unique understanding. Let yourself echo through whatever craft you've immersed yourself in, and let that art confess your feelings, realized in physical form.
By Jessica Weiss5 years ago in Lifehack
I Created Worlds Inside
In an increasingly digital world, I often find myself craving a touch of the tangible. To craft and build; to plant and nourish growth. Physical sensation is, in its simplest form, connection. The ability to see something with my eyes, but also feel the weight, the warmth, of it in my palm. To feel its presence in the world and simultaneously be grounded in my own.
By Mia Middleditch5 years ago in Lifehack
A gift from Nanima
I grew up and lived in my grandma's home by the sea till I was 6 years old. A home always filled with joy and laughter, aunt, uncles, cousins, neighbours and love. Both my parents worked and live in the city with my elder siblings, hence the reason me of living apart during my younger years, and also at that time, they felt safer having loved ones look after me instead of strangers in their absence. When it was time for me to start primary school, after kindergarten, I had to move to my parents house. I remember I felt excited about the new life ahead and getting to spend time with my siblings but at the same time, feeling an immense sadness that has never left me unfortunately. That house was another kind of growing up experience, bittersweet, good memories of teenage years and friendship, lifechanging moments, also, the place where my 6 years old self who had just come from a happy home experienced for the first time what domestic violence was, and the scars it left were so deep, they will stay for a lifetime.
By Shobna Seewoonarain Gendah5 years ago in Lifehack
