How Iron Craft Helps Me Have More Faith in Myself.
One of my goals for this year is to have more faith in myself, feel a bit more confident, build on my self-esteem. I set goals and make genuine efforts to achieve them. Some are big and many are little things that can be done easily if I set my mind to it. A sense of accomplishment is what helps me feel more confident. So while I am feeling a bit overloaded with all my projects, including my Board work, I do feel expending all this energy is good for me. I'm trying to stay airborne!
The Iron Craft challenge this week is ethnic crafting. As usual, I got frustrated thinking I should explore something Swedish or Norwegian, both parts of my husband's and my daughter's ethnic background. At the same time I was thinking that although Gujarati culture is part of my background, I was removed from it for a lot of my life, and therefore, it might classify as "something dedicated to, or inspired by, a country other than your own."
The funny thing is that I did all this ruminating while working on a dream catcher for my daughter's bedroom. Dream catcher! Silly me - I had an ethnic project right there in my hands while I was struggling to think of a project. I guess this is one of the dangers of staying airborne - always thinking there is something else I should be doing.
This project has taken on many forms since last summer. We gathered materials throughout 2012: the branch, the thread, the feather and the bead. It was done, then taken apart many times as I could not figure out how to weave the web just right. Finally I turned to the Internet and found a tutorial. It was much easier than I thought it was going to be and I was done weaving the thread in minutes, never even thinking to take a photo.
But there were feathers that needed to be attached which took me a while longer. I wanted to incorporate all the various crow and sea-gull feathers. There's even a little yellow finch feather that inspired the yellow thread. Hanging each one separately wasn't working for me so I bunched them all together and attached to the side.
Through this project I learned how to weave a dreamcatcher and I imagine making more as more treasures are found. And, I learned to have more faith in myself - faith that I will find a way to accomplish my goals and knowing that to accomplish these goals I may just need to open my eyes and see what's right in front of me.
The Iron Craft challenge this week is ethnic crafting. As usual, I got frustrated thinking I should explore something Swedish or Norwegian, both parts of my husband's and my daughter's ethnic background. At the same time I was thinking that although Gujarati culture is part of my background, I was removed from it for a lot of my life, and therefore, it might classify as "something dedicated to, or inspired by, a country other than your own."
The funny thing is that I did all this ruminating while working on a dream catcher for my daughter's bedroom. Dream catcher! Silly me - I had an ethnic project right there in my hands while I was struggling to think of a project. I guess this is one of the dangers of staying airborne - always thinking there is something else I should be doing.
This project has taken on many forms since last summer. We gathered materials throughout 2012: the branch, the thread, the feather and the bead. It was done, then taken apart many times as I could not figure out how to weave the web just right. Finally I turned to the Internet and found a tutorial. It was much easier than I thought it was going to be and I was done weaving the thread in minutes, never even thinking to take a photo.
But there were feathers that needed to be attached which took me a while longer. I wanted to incorporate all the various crow and sea-gull feathers. There's even a little yellow finch feather that inspired the yellow thread. Hanging each one separately wasn't working for me so I bunched them all together and attached to the side.
Through this project I learned how to weave a dreamcatcher and I imagine making more as more treasures are found. And, I learned to have more faith in myself - faith that I will find a way to accomplish my goals and knowing that to accomplish these goals I may just need to open my eyes and see what's right in front of me.
Yeah, sometimes you just have to make something instead of waiting for the perfect idea. I find Im often surprised at what I end up with.
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