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Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics in Journal's workplace sphere.

When Your Talent Finds You
It happened to me...once. Only once in my life. I had said to Mum, “Well, if I don’t learn tatting from you now, one day it’ll be too late.” She wholeheartedly agreed.
By Tara Crowley5 years ago in Journal
Spiritual Liberation Through Creation
Everyone in life faces some type of stress and pressure whether it be from their job, their family, the world, or even their selves. These stresses and difficult times can be shared by many or by few and bring people together, but the true beauty that can be found in it all lies within how we persevere through it. The struggles and stress are not always fun and, in most cases, can be emotionally and physically draining but when we use our stress and struggles and express it in other outlets, the outcome can be beautiful.
By Gina M. Beattie 5 years ago in Journal
Art is My Sword
My life has shaken the very line where reality teases the mind into questioning how to push through emotions and releasing the burden of holding pain. Some days I question everything and feel so little value in my being here and other days I relish in the amazement of life and all the little moments of happiness. I grew up in Northeast Wisconsin. My family was a tough hard-working driven group of dedicated dreamers. My world began in nature and only continues to be because of my connection to nature and art.
By Summer Seehawer5 years ago in Journal
Loud and Quiet at the Same Time
Shelving library books, and blending color into forms with acrylics can’t productively exist at the same time, but for me, they feed each other and allow me to recover from what each one conjures into being. They take turns passing the baton back and forth, in order to keep me in peaceful, buoyant motion as I travel through the sometimes insipid interim world to get from one to the other. I spend my days as a librarian and my nights as a painter. At night, I mix acrylics together in wild combinations to see what they might have to say as they emerge from paint layers and water. In the morning, I am lassoed away from the haze of the previous night’s creative venture, and away from my tangled bedsheets, into a library where its order is the life source of its function. The erratic waves of letting my mind fly through color is resolved as I walk into a world of structure. I find it funny that I was one of the messiest kids in the world, and I decided to become a professional organizer.
By Bel Beeson5 years ago in Journal
Mindful Practices
Often, we rush too much, and we need to find ways to be able to accomplish everything that we need to but also to destress. My life has always been quite busy as I’ve been involved in a number of community events, working a full-time job, pursuing my passion of writing, and working around my family’s farm.
By Rebecca Taylor5 years ago in Journal
The art of crap knitting
Every evening during the cooler months, I change into my pyjamas and wrap a home-made shawl – the one in the picture above – around my shoulders.
By Jane Cornes-Maclean5 years ago in Journal
Slingshot
The tangent of the angle used times the center to center distance between, divided by two. That was my first time making porn. Get your mind out of that skeevy place. I’m talking about the kind of porn that brings the left-brained, or maybe those with OCD, to a place of peace: lines flow parallel, radiuses match, and the spacing is equal. It doesn’t just happen by magic. There is an art—a beautiful ballet of ridged lines that give way to supple curves.
By Andrew Rutter5 years ago in Journal
Use of Math In Everyday life
The variety of this inquiry crosses the passageways of the numerical classes. Understudies can't help thinking about how to utilize measurements, all things considered. Numerous understudies and grown-ups have never thought about utilizing math in regular day-to-day existence.
By Sita Dahal5 years ago in Journal
Keith Haring
"Drawing is still fundamentally equivalent to it has been since ancient occasions," Keith Haring said. "It unites man and the world. It lives through enchantment." That rule applies to his own life. Notwithstanding his short profession, Keith Haring's heritage perseveres.
By Jenna Miller5 years ago in Journal
What Are Low-Content Books?
I came across several videos on Youtube and TikTok showing how to make money using a combination of Canva and Amazon's KDP service. Since Amazon took over from Createspace, it has been easy to create paperback books using KDP. Well before that, Lulu Press has been printing paperbacks from Indie authors for many years now. There's a lot of options now, but the Canva and KDP combination seems to be the easiest and free one to do. Canva now has an option where you can import PDF files so you can import template files from Amazon and edit everything straight there.
By Chloe Gilholy5 years ago in Journal
Through the Eye of a Needle
When the world fell sick and silent just months after my divorce, I picked up a needle. Knitting was almost as foreign to me as injecting myself into oblivion, but so was being single at 45 and facing a pandemic alone.
By Joy Johnston5 years ago in Journal
Knitting a path to recovery
When I was young I learned how to knit and crochet. I earned some badges for Girl Guides and made some hideous dishcloths that my mother might have used once before "accidentally" losing them in the wash. Then as time passed I tried making other things. I finger knit scarves, and crocheted bathmats. I once made my best friend a mitten. I was so proud of that thing until she put it on her foot and pretended to be a monkey. I apparently had the gauge off. But I never tried to make the second one of the set. In fact, I put my knitting away completely for a few years.
By J. Langer5 years ago in Journal