Our hands, one of the most special gifts given by God...why???
It is because by using our hands we are capable to create love, art, and things that reflect our feelings toward the person we love, friends and family in general.
I´m a living example of this; when I want to learn or do something, there´s nothing that can stop reaching it.
As you know, I love doing things with my hands, so handycrafts are ones of the things that I really enjoy the most.
Since I was younger, I have been doing a lot of things such as birthday cards, ornaments in christmas time, photoframes with ribbons, etc. But lately I have enjoyed doing plastic butterflies, which I cut from soda bottles, and after that I paint them with different colors; also, I can make butterflies using repujado´s technique which is really amazing, specially when you paint them with an special paint that gives them the appareance of ruin or old furniture...It´s really nice!!!
Another thing that I love doing is pasting over tiles images of different kind of landscapes like antigua guatemala, flowers, fruits, etc. It is an amazing technique that can be a different gift for an special friend or relative or just to decorate your house; what makes this really nice is that you can work with different sizes of tiles, so you can arrange them like a mural in your house and it will look really amazing.
Foamy is a lovely material to work with, because it is such malleable that you can also iron it to get a different shape creating a lot of figures.
It is really useful when you are preparing things for a birthday party or a baby shower.
I can share with you that I´m totally a visual lerner, because I wanted to learn crochet, but to me it was too difficult to understand the pattern from a book...so instead of that, I decided to download some videos about techniques of how to do crochet flowers and scarfs and through practicing, I did it!!
I was so happy because I really wanted to learn crochet, so now I have a lot of different things done by myself.
Also, the loom technique is very nice and easy to practice and you can create a lot of different things with that.
Well my dear friends, remember that as women, we have to be complete, and that includes the ability to cook, being a wife, daughter, sister, friend...and also we can impress with some other skills such as handycrafts. There are only 2 requirements to reach this ability which are :
Patience and that you definitely enjoy working with your hands!!!
Go ahead my dears and you will discover that handycrafts are a good way to avoid stress in our lifes!!!
Love you girls!!! :)
Sara,
ResponderEliminarI agree with you. Developing those abilities bring thousands of benefits in a daily life. One can even run a business by getting the juice out of hidden skills. But learning is a matter of having time and interest. Sometimes people are not so appealed to this kind of activities for they considere them boring. However, it can be pretty fruitful and as the time passses by one can change their lifestyle. What if you run your own decorating business?
Sari! I have seen you in action!!!
ResponderEliminarI admire how much patient you have doing your crafts. It is so useful to learn this abilities, for many things in life, in general. Although you have to have it in your genes, one can learn to do this, but the outcome will not be the same as if somebody who ''KNOWS AND LOVES'' doing it, makes something. I am thinking that if you combine these abilities you might come up with something totally new and revolutionary.
Now one thing that I really, really like about doing handcraft?; is that it helps you relax. We live is such a busy world, we are constantly on the go, go, go and never have time to do something relaxing at home; cause either you are a mom, who needs to take care of the children and husband. Or perhaps you have taken work with you to do it at home. So you never find the time to do something relaxing for yourself, neither have time to go somewhere and relax. For these few reasons and many many more, handcraft are the best I think, and I love the idea of decorating the house, relaxing, and doing an activity with your kids at the same time.
Perhaps one day you could give us a class, Sara. Right teacher?
My dear friend:
ResponderEliminarLet me tell you that I really like the topic that you chose and I could see in your blog and also in your house that you are so careful with all the details, because there is not disorder in your house and you always look really clean, let say, I think it is part of be a good woman!. I greatly admire you.
Well my dear Sara, as you said, women should be completely, let say, because we have to develop all the talents that God has given us in different areas, in my case as a sister, daughter, friend and in a future as a wife.
I like to do handy crafts, and I have the ability and the patient to do it, such us some handy crafts made by foamy or other kind of materials, but of course Sarita, you are more careful in this regard and also more creative.
It’s very nice of you to acknowledge that God is who has given us those kind of abilities, I’m in complete agreement with you.
With love:
Isa
WOW SARA!! YOU´RE RIGHT, WITH OUR HANDS WE CAN CREATE BEAUTIFUL THINGS, BUT IN SOME CASES WE DON´T KNOW ABOUT OUR SKILLS THAT CAN HELP US A LOT.. AS FUTURE TEACHERS, WE SHOULD LEARN OR DEVELOPE MORE SKILLS AND EXPRESS OUR FEELINGS THROUGH OUR HANDS. I THINK IT´S REALLY IMPORTANT TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW! AND STOP BEING THE SAME MONOTONE PERSON, I LIKE YOUR TOPIC BECAUSE IT CAN MOTIVATE US, FOR EXAMPLE ON VACATIONS OR IN OUR FREE TIME WE CAN FEEL RELAXED BY DOING ANY KIND OF ACTIVITIES WITH OUR HANDS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I ADMIRE YOU, FIRST BECAUSE YOU ARE MOTHER, YOU WORK AND STUDY AND YOU HAVE TIME TO DO THOSE BEAUTIFUL THINGS… THAT´S WHY I CONGRATULATE YOU!!
ResponderEliminarMAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS!!!!!
HI SARA!
ResponderEliminarI TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU BECAUSE WITH OUR HANDS WE CAN CREATE ART AND JUST WITH A SIMPLE TOUCH OF OUR HANDS WE CAN CHANGE THE PLACE WHERE WE SPEND THE DAY. AND ALSO IT'S A GOOD WAY TO SHOW OUR LOVE BY GIVEN A SMALL DETAIL MADE BY OURSELF.
AS YOU SAY, WE NEED TIME AND PATIENT TO CREATE THINGS BECAUSE A CRAFT NEEDS DELICACY, SPECIALY IF IT’S MADE BY OUR HANDS. I CAN SEE IN YOUR PICTURES THAT YOU ARE GOOD AT AND IT SEEMS THAT YOU RALLY ENJOY WORK WITH YOUR HANDS AND THAT IS NICE BECAUSE YOU CAN SCAPE FROM STRESS AND FROM THE DAILY RUUTIN.
TAKE CARE!