I am lucky to have a friend close to me, that is as creative and crazy (when it comes to making things) like me.
When I visit her a couple of days ago I got so many lovely earrings with me back home that I now can have a new pair every day! And just a week before that, she gave me some yarn that she have no use of right now.
Me. Very. Happy.
She makes so many lovely things, and don’t be afraid to ask her for something customdesigned items. Like me, she loves the challenge! ^_^
We all get stuck in a dark place sometimes!
A place where our souls feels cold and heavy, where even the most joyful experience in your life have a hard time to bring a smile to your lips.
Everyone experience this sometimes. Some gets exposed to it for shorter or longer times. Some learn to live with the darkness. Some can't fight it.
Myself, my soul is feeling very cold right now. That's all right, I have been here before. It will pass when my soul have been processing everything I feel is unfair. Everything that I thought I would have, but will not be. And who do not hate the feeling of crushed dreams and hope.
Sorry for a dark post, but sometimes it's just nice to express myself, and I'm really sick of always trying to be so damn positive.
Of course it will be more lovable posts soon.
I have been having some very inspiring and wonderful days, maybe even weeks after my lovely friend ElouEarth dragged me into a little adventure. I'm having so much energy and good feelings right now that I don't know what to do, except knit and create!
Yesterday started even my sweet friend Amanda sewing her own summer top!
Handcraft is very important for me.
It's my passion, my life, my time spent into a finished work.
Sometimes I wish that people could have the equal knowledge and passion, in handicraft, so that they could appreciate it like I do.
I always believe that everyone is creative, we all channel it in different ways.
Also, I strongly believe that every one can learn a handicraft. You just need to find out what works for you.
Even my best friend, who is unbelievable creative (but very short fuse for when it comes to the patience of handicraft, knitting!) knows how to knit and she has come to the conclusion that to knit
Lovvika gloves
is in her area of patience. Not too difficult and not too much time consuming. Now, after some years, she knows how to knit those gloves by heart. ^_^
So, everyone can!
Challenge yourself by learning a handicraft.
And never forget to be creative.
Love
I am always in my jungle of yarn, working on all my projects. (Right now: 4 work in progress, and maybe 1* amount of dormant!)
I think I need to get some structure in this... or, just fix that later.
My biggest project in this moment (and also for all my years as a craftsman) is a crochet bedspread.
I have seen them before and always thought "DAMN! Too big, too much... not in my lifetime!"
But then, of course, it came a request from a friend. And in that time it was very low on inspiration for me, so I really needed that push!
SO NOW! After a lot of work, and some trouble to find the yarn, I'm done with the lengths I needed to do.
Hopefully there are not to much left. ^_^
I got one assignment from work last week.
To make a sweet little purse and write instruction to it.
It was so that I overheard my boss when she was talking to another coworker about making a purse to show as inspiration to customers . But that she sadly didn't have any good instructions for it, and then...
Unbelievable how happy I'm with my new work!
Working in a yarn shop is so fun. ^_^
Finally I'm closer to my passion of handicraft and design. Even though it's very, very hard not to buy home all the yarn in the store. SO MUCH THINGS TO DO!
And it's not a full time work (only 50%) so I have time to work on my own projects too.
The trip to Warsaw was above expectations!
My friend and I was so surprised over what we made on the short two days we had there.
We had time for;
*Sightseeing
*Shopping
*Spa
*Party
*Meeting new friends
...and all in that order.
A new year!!!
Wop wop! ^_^
I know many people thinks that it's nothing special, a new year... it's just another day, night and just the Earth circulate around the star.
Just another breath taken from life.
Not for me.
I have never been big on "remaking" yourself. Making healthier and better person of yourself. But the year 2014 was the year when I started pushing myself, believing in myself.
I didn't changed anything big with myself, I just made myself more happy, by doing what made me happy.
Like this awesome video:
Sandshoot by Meno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYOB83FkY8
I hope 2015 will be similar. That I still have the energy to push myself forward.
Explore... evolve.
Everyone have a small or big, maybe more then one, dream that have been crushed.
Perhaps they did not make it or maybe it just was not possible because of the circumstances.
Or maybe it was like for me... Often when I have a dream, idee or a wish, they are not coming true because of my own laziness. I am simply lazy, scared and not believing in myself.
But I'm trying to change that.
I'm trying to stop pushing it forward or saying that I can't make it.
So now everything is starting to fall in to place.
I have a new dream, idea, or you can say, goal! And it have been putting me right back on the road for happiness.
Moving back to Sweden was hard on me... not that I wasn't happy, it was just that I thought I only could find dreams, future happiness and plans in Vienna. But now I see that I just needed to put my goals a little further on. And also, I think I needed the time I had till now for make up my mind.
So now I will start (in January) on a course, to see if maybe Economy is something I would like to keep on working with.
KNITTING!
Probably the best thing to make of your time. For me, that will say.
The feeling of the yarn, all the different materials in them and their structure. The colors of them all and all the shapes they can become...
Oh, I think I'm a romantic when it comes to my way of explaining the joy in handicrafts.
I had the opportunity to invite my dear lovely friend, and photographer, to my hometown Riala in Sweden.
It was a wonderful weekend and of course we got much done. We had a photo session, and also when we were working on that, another friend of mine made a little surprise.
But that will you not see until it's finished. ^_^
