In these stressful, anxious times, joy can be hard to find in your life. Maggie Oman Shannon has the solution in A Year of Crafting Joy.
Designed to instill simple happiness, calm, and a sense of peace into everyday. Organized by each week of the year, the author provides a wide range of crafts, inspired ideas, and practices to cultivate a sense of gladness. Through revealing interviews, personal stories, and forty suggested activities, the author shows how creative processes can become spiritual practices.
In this crafty, cozy book, you will create:
- A Sacred Heart Bowl to remember all that is meaningful in your life
- A window Herb Garden to bring nature inside the home
- Junk Journals for savoring the special moments in your life
- A Family Recipe Cookbook to pass on legacy meals and treats
- Fairy Light Landscapes to light up the darkness with magic
In this guide to peace of mind, you’ll find inspiring ideas for how to do exactly that through a wide range of creative exercises. Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a practice with enormous physical, mental, and spiritual benefits. By immersing ourselves in a craft with intention and mindfulness, we can quiet those voices around us and in us — we can enter sacred stillness.