According to Stiglets, nurturing ourselves and tapping into our creativity allows us to become happier, more joyful, whole people. “I encourage you to slow down, “she says. “Take some time to notice the world around you. Look within and help your mind focus and calm so that you can come from a place of quiet rather than chaos. When your mind is peaceful, your life is richer.”

In an interview with the Etsy blog, Stiglets recalled how she first experimented with embroidery when she was a teenager, by stitching little designs onto her backpack and jeans. “I put it away for a while, then came back to it years later when my kids were very young, and I pretty much never stopped!” she says. Completely self-taught, her craft was learned by trial and error, allowing herself room to make mistakes.

The kits she sells include everything you need to get started wit embroidery yourself. The pattern is pre-printed on the fabric, and the floss, needle, and hoop are included too. She also adds a Getting Started Guide, which walks you through setting up your hoop and prepping your embroidery floss. Her How-to Guide includes diagrams for a handful of her favorite basic stitches. “I give notes for each design, including which stitches I used where, so folks can replicate my example photos if they want to—or they can do their own thing,” explains Stiglets.

Get going!

The post Now Is the Perfect Time to Take On Embroidery appeared first on PlayJunkie.

With a background in textile and industrial design, Choedamphai enjoys experimenting with different materials, colors, and textures, combining different techniques such as watercolor, paper folding, and collage. “I’ve been making things since I was a child because my mom was always encouraging us,” she relayed in an interview with the Etsy blog. “Even if she was just baking, she might give us a little bit of dough so we could make our own version of bread. Now, I can’t not be making things, so of course, I have lots of supplies in my studio, and after a while, I started selling them along with my own designs.”

According to Choedamphai, it all started in April 2012, when she made a dinosaur pop-up card for her 3-year-old nephew who absolutely loved it. She went on to launch her business in July 2012, while still living in Oxford, UK, working from her bedroom and garden shed. Having moved back to her home town in Thailand, she decided to expand this business and added a range of carefully selected craft supplies and handmade hair accessories.

“I’ve always been drawn to textures and love running my hands over them,” says Choedamphai. “Generally, I won’t use a material if I don’t like how it feels, and I’m very picky.” According to Choedamphai, the handmade paper in Thailand, made from mulberry tree bark, has a rich texture to it – the sort of perfect imperfections she’s drawn to when choosing her materials.

Below you find some of the products she offers in her shop:

The post Looking for Ways to Fill Up the Time? Why Not Try Crafting appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Ashley’s journey started in college – or, anyway, at the end of her college days. She was starting her junior year in art school when she decided it just wasn’t for her. She wasn’t sure a career as a graphic design was for here, and spending any more time working towards a degree she wasn’t sure she even wanted, made her feel lost. So against her parents’ wishes, she took a break she never came back from.

At first, she was lost. She tried to make a living as a freelance graphic designer but realized it really wasn’t for her. She moved around, leaving Virginia for Texas, and worked all sorts of odd jobs she didn’t really like. Eventually, she decided she needed to finally do something, and started Sugar and Cloth, a DIY and crafting blog.

Finally, she found her muse. The blog was just what she needed to get her creative juices flowing, and she just worked on project after project. Other DIY lovers slowly discovered her, until she was finally able to turn her blog into a full-time job.  

Today, she shares her art projects as well as glimpses from her family life with her 270 thousand followers. She gets to meet and work with amazing creative minds and enjoys every moment of her life. It’s pretty safe to say that leaving college wasn’t such a bad idea after all!

The post Ashley Rose Found Her Calling in DIY and Crafting appeared first on PlayJunkie.

In college, she studied photography and became a professional photographer. She eventually decided to try something new and applied to a graduate program in marriage and family therapy,  which led to an internship in a rehabilitation facility. There she learned the true power of art: she helped her patients express themselves with colors and lines. She learned how therapeutic art really was, so she decided to share her discovery with the world, through her IG account, The DIYDay.

On her account, Renee shares crafting videos and tutorials, and pictures of her own creations. She knows the process can be as fun and relaxing as the final outcome, which is why she often shares pictures of her process as well as the results.

Her colorful creations have gained her over 250 thousand followers who enjoy seeing art being made as much as they enjoy the finished products. Today she focuses on spreading the gospel of crafting around the world and giving as many people as possible the gift of creating with their own hands.  

The post This Photographer Has Discovered the True Power of Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“We came up with the idea when we saw all these empty water bottles leftover from my son’s soccer game,” artist Andy Harbeck shared on Bored Panda. “We decided to create a new display using these bottles for our Christmas light show that allows people to stop and take a photo while reminding everyone to be conscious of recycling.”

According to him, the wingspan is 10 ft wide and each bottle was rotocast with a thin white resin to diffuse the light evenly throughout the bottle.

“The light patterns that illuminate each bottle can be controlled in different ways such as projecting across the entire wingspan or only on certain areas like the edges of the wings or internally,” he added.

Check out the video below if you are curious to see the remarkable wing.

The post Family Made Led Angel Wings Using Recycled Plastic Bottles appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Corrie Beth is a lifelong artist with a passion for crafting and DIY. She’s been creating with papier-mâché, paper, wood, fabric, and other materials for years, and her works have been featured in some of the biggest art and design magazines out there.

Recently her focus has been on recreating the most popular houseplants with paper. For her, paper plants combine the joy of crafting with the beauty of nature. Paper plants are affordable, don’t need to be watered, and never die.

Her Instagram account, Corrie Beth Makes, is dedicated to her leafy creations, which are incredibly realistic. She’s even published a book with step-by-step guides to creating your own papery garden! Even crazy plant folks with green thumbs and actual plants will enjoy this fun, creative idea.

The post Can’t Keep a Plant Alive? Try These Paper Plants Instead appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Why not find an interesting hobby with which could fulfill your free time? Like for example doing origami. The Internet is full of interesting, great and easy-to-follow tutorials, and we present to you a YouTube channel called DIY which is dedicated to handcrafts.

“With the help of our channel you can learn how to do various crafts with your own hands.” – they wrote on their channel.

Scroll down and learn how the bird from the game Angry Birds is made.

The post Learn How to Make Angry Bird-inspired Origami appeared first on PlayJunkie.

According to Stiglets, nurturing ourselves and tapping into our creativity allows us to become happier, more joyful, whole people. “I encourage you to slow down, “she says. “Take some time to notice the world around you. Look within and help your mind focus and calm so that you can come from a place of quiet rather than chaos. When your mind is peaceful, your life is richer.”

In an interview with the Etsy blog, Stiglets recalled how she first experimented with embroidery when she was a teenager, by stitching little designs onto her backpack and jeans. “I put it away for a while, then came back to it years later when my kids were very young, and I pretty much never stopped!” she says. Completely self-taught, her craft was learned by trial and error, allowing herself room to make mistakes.

The kits she sells include everything you need to get started wit embroidery yourself. The pattern is pre-printed on the fabric, and the floss, needle, and hoop are included too. She also adds a Getting Started Guide, which walks you through setting up your hoop and prepping your embroidery floss. Her How-to Guide includes diagrams for a handful of her favorite basic stitches. “I give notes for each design, including which stitches I used where, so folks can replicate my example photos if they want to—or they can do their own thing,” explains Stiglets.

Get going!

The post Now Is the Perfect Time to Take On Embroidery appeared first on PlayJunkie.

With a background in textile and industrial design, Choedamphai enjoys experimenting with different materials, colors, and textures, combining different techniques such as watercolor, paper folding, and collage. “I’ve been making things since I was a child because my mom was always encouraging us,” she relayed in an interview with the Etsy blog. “Even if she was just baking, she might give us a little bit of dough so we could make our own version of bread. Now, I can’t not be making things, so of course, I have lots of supplies in my studio, and after a while, I started selling them along with my own designs.”

According to Choedamphai, it all started in April 2012, when she made a dinosaur pop-up card for her 3-year-old nephew who absolutely loved it. She went on to launch her business in July 2012, while still living in Oxford, UK, working from her bedroom and garden shed. Having moved back to her home town in Thailand, she decided to expand this business and added a range of carefully selected craft supplies and handmade hair accessories.

“I’ve always been drawn to textures and love running my hands over them,” says Choedamphai. “Generally, I won’t use a material if I don’t like how it feels, and I’m very picky.” According to Choedamphai, the handmade paper in Thailand, made from mulberry tree bark, has a rich texture to it – the sort of perfect imperfections she’s drawn to when choosing her materials.

Below you find some of the products she offers in her shop:

The post Looking for Ways to Fill Up the Time? Why Not Try Crafting appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Ashley’s journey started in college – or, anyway, at the end of her college days. She was starting her junior year in art school when she decided it just wasn’t for her. She wasn’t sure a career as a graphic design was for here, and spending any more time working towards a degree she wasn’t sure she even wanted, made her feel lost. So against her parents’ wishes, she took a break she never came back from.

At first, she was lost. She tried to make a living as a freelance graphic designer but realized it really wasn’t for her. She moved around, leaving Virginia for Texas, and worked all sorts of odd jobs she didn’t really like. Eventually, she decided she needed to finally do something, and started Sugar and Cloth, a DIY and crafting blog.

Finally, she found her muse. The blog was just what she needed to get her creative juices flowing, and she just worked on project after project. Other DIY lovers slowly discovered her, until she was finally able to turn her blog into a full-time job.  

Today, she shares her art projects as well as glimpses from her family life with her 270 thousand followers. She gets to meet and work with amazing creative minds and enjoys every moment of her life. It’s pretty safe to say that leaving college wasn’t such a bad idea after all!

The post Ashley Rose Found Her Calling in DIY and Crafting appeared first on PlayJunkie.

In college, she studied photography and became a professional photographer. She eventually decided to try something new and applied to a graduate program in marriage and family therapy,  which led to an internship in a rehabilitation facility. There she learned the true power of art: she helped her patients express themselves with colors and lines. She learned how therapeutic art really was, so she decided to share her discovery with the world, through her IG account, The DIYDay.

On her account, Renee shares crafting videos and tutorials, and pictures of her own creations. She knows the process can be as fun and relaxing as the final outcome, which is why she often shares pictures of her process as well as the results.

Her colorful creations have gained her over 250 thousand followers who enjoy seeing art being made as much as they enjoy the finished products. Today she focuses on spreading the gospel of crafting around the world and giving as many people as possible the gift of creating with their own hands.  

The post This Photographer Has Discovered the True Power of Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“We came up with the idea when we saw all these empty water bottles leftover from my son’s soccer game,” artist Andy Harbeck shared on Bored Panda. “We decided to create a new display using these bottles for our Christmas light show that allows people to stop and take a photo while reminding everyone to be conscious of recycling.”

According to him, the wingspan is 10 ft wide and each bottle was rotocast with a thin white resin to diffuse the light evenly throughout the bottle.

“The light patterns that illuminate each bottle can be controlled in different ways such as projecting across the entire wingspan or only on certain areas like the edges of the wings or internally,” he added.

Check out the video below if you are curious to see the remarkable wing.

The post Family Made Led Angel Wings Using Recycled Plastic Bottles appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Corrie Beth is a lifelong artist with a passion for crafting and DIY. She’s been creating with papier-mâché, paper, wood, fabric, and other materials for years, and her works have been featured in some of the biggest art and design magazines out there.

Recently her focus has been on recreating the most popular houseplants with paper. For her, paper plants combine the joy of crafting with the beauty of nature. Paper plants are affordable, don’t need to be watered, and never die.

Her Instagram account, Corrie Beth Makes, is dedicated to her leafy creations, which are incredibly realistic. She’s even published a book with step-by-step guides to creating your own papery garden! Even crazy plant folks with green thumbs and actual plants will enjoy this fun, creative idea.

The post Can’t Keep a Plant Alive? Try These Paper Plants Instead appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Why not find an interesting hobby with which could fulfill your free time? Like for example doing origami. The Internet is full of interesting, great and easy-to-follow tutorials, and we present to you a YouTube channel called DIY which is dedicated to handcrafts.

“With the help of our channel you can learn how to do various crafts with your own hands.” – they wrote on their channel.

Scroll down and learn how the bird from the game Angry Birds is made.

The post Learn How to Make Angry Bird-inspired Origami appeared first on PlayJunkie.