Crafts: Creative, Resourceful, Artistic, Fun, Tasteful, Serene

One of the hobbies I have picked up is doing more crafts. For me, this creative outlet has been very therapeutic. Some of the crafts have included painting, making bracelets, painting tote bags, origami bookmarks, and other things that have randomly caught my eye from the internet.

The main craft that comes to my mind is painting. I love painting, I love coming up with ideas to paint or copying ideas from Pinterest to paint. I love the colors, I love how it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful, and I love the meaning behind the paintings.

This is an activities that bring me a lot of joy and in doing so has been therapeutic in so many ways.

Not only has this been a creative outlet, but also something to do that allows me to be present. Something that I lose track of time when doing. I don't think about what I am going to do next, or what I have done in the past, it is just a few moments where I can be happy and enjoy what I am doing at that time.

Painting for me has been, in a way, therapeutic because it takes all of the words in my head that are jumbled together and creates an image out of them. Often these ideas come from sites such as Pinterest, but they are also images that come to me while meditating or when journaling. Thinking up something and then creating it, while remembering the meaning behind it, to me, has just been a great thing.

I've found that these paintings can also serve as visual reminders about things I have gone through. Things like grief, self-worth, anger, and even thinking about little me trying to sort through my emotions, have all served as valuable visual reminders of how I have grown during my story.