#creative arts

Alexander McQueen’s “It’s Only a Game” turns 20 years old

⟡ Collage: cut things up, rearrange them, call it art because it is

⟡ Linocut printing: carve a stamp, press it everywhere

⟡ Making your own ink from berries, walnut shells, iron

⟡ Watercolor: the most forgiving medium for imperfect people

⟡ Hand lettering: start ugly, get better, it takes exactly as long as it takes

⟡ Making playlists as an art form

⟡ Crochet: meditative, portable, produces something cute

⟡ Bookbinding: turn anything into a journal you actually made

⟡ Embroidery: more forgiving than it looks, more satisfying than expected

⟡ Soap or candle making: VERY functional and deeply satisfying

⟡ Charcoal drawing: messy in a way that feels free (love it)

⟡ Block printing on fabric: turn old plain things into something yours

⟡ Pottery hand-building without a wheel, its more accessible than you think

⟡ Pressed flower art!!!

⟡ Journaling with mixed media, like glue, paint, pen, tape, anything goes

⟡ Dried flower arranging

⟡ Sketching architecture: trains the eye to see structure everywhere

⟡ Leather tooling: more accessible as a beginner craft than expected

⟡ Natural dyeing: plants and fabric and patience and lot of magic

It very quickly hit me: store- bought stuff SUCKS. Handmade stuff RULES.

The kinds of stitches used, the thickness/ quality of yarn, even the dimensions of the item itself are just so shitty and cheap on mass- produced clothing. Once you know what youre looking at, you can see that its made to be worn and disposed of within a year. But that handmade brown sweater? That sucker weighs 3x what a store bought sweater weighs. Its softer, it has better stretch and even with messier seams, its STRONGER. It can survive a trathalon, a hop over a barbed- wire fence, and a minor nuclear explosion.

Some people only look at it, while others turn the silence of fallen leaves into a soul.

A bird reborn from pieces carried by the wind…

True talent is not creating something from nothing — it’s seeing the beauty that already exists.

🍂 🦅