Journal Jar Prompt Number 007

I'm back with another post. Today I want to talk about my 3rd simple pleasure in life. I'm really having a great time posting about this stuff because I feel like I can just let what I'm thinking go on the page, and that makes me feel good. Also, I feel like I am capturing a moment in time, but instead of a visual of the memory, what I'm capturing is a feeling that I have at that particular time, a couple minutes worth of thoughts caught in a net, captured in mid - air.

Simple Pleasure #3: I love to craft. I find any type of craft enjoyable, and I'm willing to try anything. Some of the crafts I've already tried and am currently working on include: card making, scrapbooking, quilting, sewing, quilling (a work of art made from rolled strips of paper), crocheting, knitting, art journaling, making ATCs (artist trading cards) or inchies (1"x1" works of art), cross stitch, jewelry making, and many, many more! I normally go in spurts; for example, right now I've been working on cards and ATCs a ton, while I used to be scrapbooking all the time. Since the right season for quilting is starting to come around (fall and winter), I'm starting to get this weird urge to quilt and to cross stitch, as well as to knit and crochet. This muggy, humid, hot weather, is not right for those types of crafts, so a lot of times I work on paper crafts during the summer. Jewelry making I really work on year round because I love to do it, and it literally never gets old to me.

Journal Jar Prompt Number 006

Now here we go with another post - the second one in a series of what will be 14. In the previous post I talked a little about how one of my simple pleasures in life is nature itself... the flowers and the animals, the sky and the ground. I'm back to talk about one of my other simple pleasures and here we go with simple pleasure #2.

Simple Pleasure #2: Photography. I love to take pictures. Whether they be of nature, people, places or even small things that other people may never have noticed before, I love capturing that little moment in time - it feels to me that I'm showcasing something that otherwise might have easily been forgotten. Special memories of something someone once said, a crazy outfit that someone decided defiantly matched, a moment that officially changed your life for the better! A photo is, simply put, a part of a lifetime of memories; a single second in this long time period that we call life. With the age of digital photography here, it makes it cheap, simple, and easy to snap that perfect shot - and if you mess up, quite frankly, it doesn't matter!! Who really cares what you do to get that shot? If you have to sneak up on that sleeping kid or the little boy climbing a tree, it's 100% worth the work to get the shot... plus, being so quick and all, there is instant gratification, which I love!