DIY Easy Mini Crochet Butterfly Tutorial and Pattern from Todolwen here. One of my more popular posts was a beautiful book page origami butterfly tutorial also by Todolwen here.
Tracks
DIY Arm Knit Chunky Scarf Tutorial from Simply Maggie here. I have never done arm knitting but she has a really good YouTube video. Here are two more of her scarves done in Bernat Roving Yarn here.
Roundup of Favorite Valentines Day DIYs Part One. For over 20 pages of hearts and ideas for Valentines Day go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/hearts
- Sweet Heart Sugar Cubes Tutorial from Craft Passion here.
- Valentine’s Day Fortune Cookies Tutorial From Paper Therapy here.
- DIY Inspiration Forget Me Knot from SHinH catalog online at Flickr here.
- Heart Shaped (or PAC-Man shaped?) Cupcakes without an Expensive Specialty Pan Tutorial from Six Sisters’ Stuff here.
- 2 Ingredient Strawberry Fudge Tutorial and recipe at Cookies & Cups here.
- Wire Heart Ring Tutorial from Maize Hutton here.
- Ransom Letter “I LOVE YOU” Wall Art Tutorial from Deb Schwedhelm here.
- Crayon Heart from Cindy Beasle on Pinterest here.
- Heartbeat Necklace Tutorial from I Spy DIY here. Make sure you get a rhythm that isn’t deadly (someone commented that this one is).
DIY Blood Orange Bath Salts and Free Printable from How Do I Make Soap here. Easy recipe with links to all ingredients (change color for season) and I really like the label.
Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me:
Original post by sehnsuchttraum
- You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25
- You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.
- You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you to start with if they demand it.
- You don’t have to stay with someone who isn’t meeting your emotional or sexual needs because they need you, or you’ve been with them for awhile, or you need to be in a relationship. You need you. Your time is your own and it is finite.
- It’s ok to work at a job you enjoy that doesn’t make you miserable even if it’s not a career and it won’t “lead to anything.”
- Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.
- It’s ok not to like or get along with the vast majority of people you encounter, so long as you afford them the same respect, courtesy and dignity that they afford you.
- Expensive is not always better.
- Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.
- People are both much better and much worse than you’d suspect, but usually not all at once.
- Stop thinking of your future self as a different person and it will be easier to prevent money and health problems.
- Let people help you, lean on them when you need to, and be available to help, but don’t swing too far in either direction. Try to carry your half of the life basket as evenly as you can.
- Set boundaries, and do not be afraid to kick people out of your life who disregard them. You will not end up alone and unloved. People who love you will be ok with your boundaries.
- Your power does not come from money or beauty, but from seeing life steadily and wholly, from a curious and thoughtful mind, and from your ability to say no when you want to, and yes when you want to, and I don’t know when you don’t know.
- There will be bad times, maybe lots of bad times, but not only bad times.
- Love will not heal the wounds in your soul, but love can give you the impetus to begin the work of healing yourself.
- Life might be a long series of starting over, and that’s alright.
- You’re really cool, you’re really beautiful, you’re really special. Really. Not to everyone, but to a lot of someones sometimes.
Truebluemeandyou: I’d also add that bad times show you who your real friends are - the ones that stick around - and that is a good thing.
Love :)
DIY Angel Wings Tee Shirt Restyle Tutorial with Template from cut out + keep here.
DIY Temporary Clip On Bows for Boots Tutorial from Kittenhood here.
DIY Twelve More Ways to Tie a Scarf here from scarves.net here. For more ideas on DIYing scarves, scarf storage and altering scarves go here: http://truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/scarf
DIY Snail Lunch. Banana and peanut butter sandwich with jelly on top. From Jill Dubien for Canadian Family here.
Truebluemeandyou: From my kids’ blog because some days you just need silly food.
Fun :)
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DY Neon Summer Sun Dress. Using neon spray paint makes this a easy DIY. Tutorial from Wobisobi here.
I felt this was very suiting for this week for obvious reasons. However I’ve felt similar anxiety at different moments in life as well. It only took me 8 weeks to realize that I took two classes this term to help me organize, prioritize, and manage stress. The funny, really not that funny, thing is they caused me the most stress….figures. How is it that everything we do in life to help ourselves make life easier, makes life harder? Habits, bad habits, good habits, and then we find someone to blame. I have mentally prepared myself for complete exhaustion this week, in hopes that I can walk away feeling less like a poor kid that is coming off of sedation.
Being in college, you wondering if what you are doing and the direction you have chosen is right. Even in life wondering if everything you ever set as a goal was suitable for you as an individual or just something you went along with. So in a way I agree with this quote, but at the same time I feel the need to briefly argue it. Sure you want to find the right path in life, but would you not want to at least give everything else a shot first? Even if I felt stupid for trying, I would be the fish trying to climb the tree before I learned to swim.
This is a photo I took in Lake County Oregon. I was out driving, clearing my head or at least trying to, looking for something but at the same time nothing exact. I took over 100 pictures that day, some good, some eh. The funny thing about capturing moments, is that it’s not always in the photo itself. It’s how you remember what was going on when it was taken, what you were feeling or thinking. I remember trying to capture the peace and and small beauty from that day, but as I look at it (and the many others) all I feel is pain and emptiness. It is just what I remember from that time in my life, nothing to do with what is going on in the photo. But now, because I said that, how will you look at it?
