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Winter 2015

Arts

grapevine embroidered with beads

When we have a minute to spare and we are tired of the routine and want to relax, we try to do what we like. Some people collect stamps, some carve wood, some paint, and in these moments we want to escape from everyday life and to do something that like to do for ourselves and the soul. When I need to feed my soul, I enjoy beading.

Whenever I have a quiet moment and I get tired and want to relax, I turn on quiet music or a film and I nestle in a chair and embroider beads. It is very tedious work; each bead should be put on the thread and sewed in a specific location, so that at the end you get a picture. To create such a picture can take up to six months, but the result is always uplifting.

I cannot express the feeling I have when I finish another picture. I made it with my own hands, and that from which I had a lot of fun creating it. The work brings joy and inner peace.

I think that each of us has a hobby. This is a favorite activity that we do, and that when we do it we don’t notice how time flies, and in the end we get the result for which have been waiting so long.