Are you like me, you want to make gorgeous things for your home, house and friends, but you never seem to be able to find the time? Most crafters face this dissatisfaction at one time or another. With our hectic schedules and busy lives this is a base complaint. So how to solve it?
One idea would be to get up a half hour early each day. I've found this to work well with ongoing projects that need to be completed over time like knitting a sweater, rather than craft projects that could be completed in one sitting. Not all of us are morning people, but even the most diehard night owl can make this strategy work if results are soon realized.
Dollhouse Families
Take along projects are also a good idea if you can find a few stolen minutes throughout your day. Waiting for your child to get out of dance class or riding on the bus while your commute are good times to knit, crochet, cross stitch or faultless some other type of hand work. Quilts that allow you to hand quilt on a block at a time, or piece by hand like Grandmother's Flower orchad or Cathedral Windows work well here.
Making crafting a house action can free up time for crafts. If your children know that as soon as evening meal is cleaned up the whole house is going to assemble a dollhouse or make finger puppets they suddenly become very motivated to help with the dishes!
Trade some crafting time with friends. Offer to watch your friend's children while she scrapbooks for an afternoon, and then she can watch your children the next day. Then you can get together and collate completed projects. That's much more fun than just getting together to lament the lack of time you have for your favorite hobby.
Ignore housework!! Well, maybe not a good strategy, or one that you would want to use often, but this can sometimes be rewarding. And sometimes, drastic measures are called for. If all you feel like you do is work and you never have a opening to do what you unmistakably enjoy you are going to burn out and not be any fun to be colse to at all, no matter how clean your house is!
Find the time or make the time to be creative. The rewards are worth it.
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