Creativity can often feel elusive, but there are practical steps you can take to nurture and revive it. Whether you’re a professional artist or someone looking to inject a little more innovation into your daily life, refreshing your creative energy is within reach. It’s about making space for the mind to explore and play. Today, let’s explore various strategies designed to help you recharge your creativity and reignite your imagination.
Read moreHow to Avoid Eye Strain While Doing Detail Work
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When it comes to sewing quality pieces, the devil is in the detail. Embroidering skirt hems with flowers, adding sequins to sweetheart necklines, and finely stitching a hat can all enhance the appearance of your final product. However, detail work does require you to be exceptionally thorough, and all that near work can strain your eyes.
Read more5 Ways to Help Your Senior Friends and Neighbors
Maybe you’ve gotten to know a senior neighbor who doesn’t seem to have any family living nearby, or perhaps your senior acquaintances from church have mentioned feeling lonely and isolated because they live far away from their loved ones. Today, The Sewing Room shares a few ways to lend a hand to seniors who are isolated, from assisting them with decluttering and stress management to helping with financial decisions.
Read moreThe Frannie Adventure Doll - Designing a Rag Doll
Over the last few months I’ve been hard at work developing a pattern for a Rag Doll. “Why a Rag Doll?” you might ask. Well the truth is that I’ve always loved dolls. I loved my barbies, I loved my china dolls, and I loved hand made rag dolls as well. When I was 8 years old, My Grandma Fran gave me her Bisque Baby Doll that she got when she was 8. I still have that doll. It’s a little worse for wear and needs some attention but I still have it.
I also loved making dolls and made quite a few as a child. It always gave me pleasure and I was infinitely fascinated by the process.
Read moreFashion Your Way to a Better Body Image - 5 ways to do it without Dieting
Body Image - That's a tough one for a lot of us. It's not something talked about openly, very often, but a lot of the people I work with seem to be challenged by it, and daily. I've struggled with my own body image over the years as have most of my friends. As a teenager, looking through fashion magazines constantly (wanting to be cool, fashionable and popular), I compared myself to the models on those pages, dressed beautifully & styled to the nines. The comparisons killed me. You see, I've always been my own worst critic. Self criticism and loathing get to the heart of the matter. That internal critic (along with a little external reinforcement - peer pressure, magazines etc.) led me to an eating disorder, hospitalization and a life unmanageable, all by the tender age of 15...
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