Crafting In The Name Of...

The last few months before this recent breakthrough were filled with dark times that spun me around more than all the alcohol I was consuming. Depression has this way of taking and taking, but there's nothing to take so it gets agitated with you and all you want to do is sleep. There's all this noise around you that stills the clock, and you just want the time to pass quickly but it's stuck in slow motion like your head is.

I struggled my way out of it. I got myself out of bed to go take a jog around the neighborhood. I turned on positive affirmations and said them to myself over and over again. I meditated until I fell asleep and then I meditated some more. My boyfriend cuddled me until I had nothing on my mind other than my love for him in that moment. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing man to help me through those times and be with me through these great ones also.

I've started making paper roses due to a Facebook video I saw on my timeline one day, because, surprise, when you're in bed all day that's all you look at. You can make these little paper roses just sitting at a desk, and I have found limitless opportunities for creative expression in this one form of paper flowers. It is very tedious work, so if you have no patience I suppose I'd have to tell you not to bother. I, however, do not mind tedious work like embellishing the petals of a flower one by one for fun.

Embellished Handmade Paper Rose

I still have yet to even finish the one above. I am still debating on painting the remaining petals white or embellishing the living heck out of the rest of it. Glitter bomb! This gives new life to my days looking forward to what my mind can create other than worrying way too much about the fact that I wasn't writing which was making me not be able to write.

I love writing, but lately I've been trying so hard to make it a job that it became a nuisance to even turn the computer on. Writing should come naturally to me and I shouldn't even be trying to write when I don't have that naturally coming out of my fingertips like I do right now. These little paper flowers have been the spark of motivation I have needed.

They aren't going to cure your depression and if they did I'm sure everyone would be doing this right now. I guess my point is that you should try to find something you can do to create something. Creating is bringing life to your self and your emotions. You can create anything and if you have the right perspective to say, "Hey, I made this. I feel a little bit of an accomplishment." Like I said, it won't cure all of your woes, but it is something to think about doing the next time you're in a slump.

Skull Halloween Rose

I decided to go back to my dark side and create one out of a skull layout I found online and it came out just amazing. I love how this would look as a bow for my hair. Oh, I must attach this to a barrette somehow. This one has to be my favorite, and maybe because I love spooky, goth things, but this one is just amazing to me. It was also fairly simple seeing as how I didn't have to attach embellishments or micro-beads to it. I may add some black feathers or something to make it just a tad more fabulous. It's so ghoulish and I can't wait to decorate with this.

This is one thing I can see helping me in the future with getting my mind off of the depression, and whenever I find something that comes in handy for myself, I share it with others in hopes that maybe you will give it a shot and it might help for even a second.

We are all in this together and any tips to get through things even when you aren't in a depression right that second, but think of something, it may save someone. I thought this article might be dumb, and maybe it is, but it also might help someone out. I hope someone gives it a try, and most of all, that you are all having an amazing day.