Diy And Empower Yourself By Tapping Into Your Creativity

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DIY and Empower Yourself by Tapping into Your Creativity
Do you consider yourself a creative person? Do you actually use your creativity or do you opt for purchasing items that are made by someone else? I have always considered myself a creative person – in fact, we all are! But if you are like me, then what in most cases keeps me from actually using my creativity is fear of failure. It’s only lately, I started to realize that I am actually capable of doing many things, almost anything.  And let me tell you, this is a very empowering thought!
Since I was a child, I liked drawing. I also drew and painted when I was an adult. It brought great pleasure to me but with the busy schedule of a full-time working mom of one, then two and then…show more content…
My mom always have sewn. When my brother and I were kids, she would sew us clothes. I had the best dresses any little girl could dream of. Sewing was my mom’s hobby… until Perestroika came. Perestroika in the former Soviet Union brought a lot of chaos into people’s lives with its downed factories, unemployment and crazy inflation. Many people lost their jobs and had no means to make money, including my Mom. And this is where, I am proud to say, my Mom, by tapping into her creativity, was able to find a solution in this quite desperate situation – she transformed her sewing hobby into a business. And did it prosper! The timing for it was just right – there were no women’s clothe on the market because all Soviet factories had closed, and there were no goods yet being imported from other countries (i.e. Turkey, China, European countries, etc.). My mom created several dress patterns which were quite successful. Women loved these dresses! Perestroika, with all its difficulties brought a lot of opportunities to some people, but still most were left to struggle. We were among the lucky ones!
Now many years forward – my Mom and I are in our house in the US (yes, we got lucky again! But that is another story)… and we are in front of our big black leather sofa that desperately needed throw pillows. After a brief discussion of how we can come up with bazillion throw pillows on a tight budget, my mom and I were off to the store to buy fabrics for our DIY pillows. The end result was
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