The Road to Lifestyle

Today I have decided the meaning of life is to experience joy and to aid others in experiencing joy as well.   We can choose to be happy today, we have only to make the decision...  We have to do a certain amount of allowing... acceptance of who we are, what we want out of life etc. Today, as I thought of all things I had to do, I felt the anxiety that stems from work yet to be done, begin to surge.  But then I thought to myself, "Would I rather have nothing to do?"   Of course not!   That would bring on a whole other area of discussion!  We mustn't live as victims... we must live as victors!

"Prolonged association with negative people makes us think negatively, close contact with petty individuals develops petty habits in us. On the bright side, companionship with people with big ideas raises the level of our thinking; close contact with ambitious people gives us ambition."  - The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.

 

I've been creating!  :) Now, my first one ever was the red ball above.  It took me almost four hours to complete! I called it "The Beast." But, I'm happy to say that the blue and white balls only took me an hour and a half each. And that's because "A" I was getting better and "B" my husband helped cut the strands of paper to the length I needed and he crumpled them for me. The tutorial I read stated you need to make the strips about 24 inches long and you can crumple the paper to soften it.  I DEFINITELY recommend crumpling.  It gives the flowers a nice texture and makes them easier to wrap. The balls were made with 6" styrofoam balls (once the rosettes are applied they become 1 to 2 inches thicker), crepe paper (150 ft x 1.75 in), and glue sticks (hot glue gun). For the red and blue balls above I used one and a half rolls of crepe paper. The rosettes on the white ball were made thicker and tighter ...

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."  - George Washington Carver

Be So Happy That When Others Look At You they Become Happy Too.