Joy: Glitter

In high school I had a "Happy List" that was on a sheet of dark pink lined Lisa Frank paper that I kept in my wallet. I knew at a pretty young age that I wasn't as happy as other people and some days were a struggle to get out of my sadness so I would pull out my happy list and look over or add to it.

Glitter was the first thing on that list. I can't remember a whole lot of the other things but man do I love glitter to this day, particularly glittery sparkly things. I can avoid to loose stuff people use in craft projects (sometimes) but not when it comes to beads, yarn and some clothing/accessories.

Glitter yarn is much more common these days but when I was younger, I'd scoop up everything I ran into to add to my stash. Many of my Theo Moorman inlay weavings have some sort of glittery yarn in them. I also like to add it to tapestry when I play with that weaving style.

Beads are a glitter-given. I needed more faceted extra-sparkly seed beads in my life at the end of last year and I made a fairly large bead purchase from Fire Mountain Gems and Northland Visions in November and December. I don't need any more beads but adding to the sparkle-stash is necessary to get excited about new projects sometimes.

My new Dark Pink Glittery Converse!! I'd been pining over these Custom Converse for a while and when we decided we were going to the We Are the Union NYE show (which never happened, thanks COVID), we decided to put outfits together to dress up for the show and these shoes were ideal. I'm not that big into pink but this particular shade was nice and robust, like I like in my colors. I ended up not putting the time in to making a skirt so I pulled out the silver sequin pencil skirt from my collection. I like to go with all things glittery on New Years. 

I could go on and on about the joys of glitter, but these weekly Joy posts I want to keep short.  Finding joy is so easy lately, it's everywhere if you're open to it.