I’ve been dealing with depression a lot since I quit drinking. I’ve found that exercise does help, but for me it has to be exercise that I actually enjoy. I’ve been going for walks. I like exploring different parts of my neighborhood and now that I’ve been doing it a while I can cover 4 or 5 miles in a day! Being in better shape gives me more energy and I actually feel like getting up and doing something instead of just vegging out in front of the TV for hours

I’ve also found that just cleaning my space has been really helpful. I let my house turn into a disgusting mess when my depression was at it’s worst, and the act of tidying it all up helped improve my mood a lot. Having actual space to work and everything where its supposed to be has made me much more productive artistically too. Seeing a mess every day was just making me more depressed.

Finding a new hobby that you have to learn about and get better at can really help with getting the creative process going too.

I hope this is helpful. I know the same things don’t always work for everyone, but I’m in a much better place than I was 2 years ago now

What is this? It’s from a video game?

I don’t know if we’re still doing the beans thing or not, but I’ll upvote the baked beans gaming dice because they are awesome lol

I’m like 95% sure it’s probably something I’m doing wrong lol

I was not aware there were designated cross stitch holidays like this lol! Sadly I will be out of town this weekend, but I will try to take part in the next one!

I’m still very new to this hobby, so I’m still just doing one project at a time, but I do already have like 3 more projects lined up and I’ve considered starting one of them already

I remember my password but it won’t let me log in anywhere else besides this app on this one device for some reason

Why don’t they train them to fly there sober? That seems like the responsible thing to do…

Sounds like a good deal to me!

I was banned from the Anti-Work subreddit for questioning why someone in a picket line was dressed like the wish .com version of Che Guevara. He looked ridiculous, nobody else was dressed up, and they were picketing a fucking Starbucks.

I thought it was just a funny observation but the mods banned me after it got upvoted to top comment on the post lol

I just recently watched your blackwork tutorial! The pattern from the video is next on my to-do list, so I might try it with some of the multicolor floss now!

I think I have a little bit of felt left over from another project so I will try that!

That’s good to know! The pattern I’m making is way less detailed and delicate looking than this one so now I feel much better about it!

I saw some of those blended colors when I was at the craft store the other day and wondered what they were used for lol!

I finished about 25% of it before I started realizing this might be a problem so I feel too invested in it to quit now lol

My only worry with getting a bigger hoop is that it might get difficult to maneuver around. I thought this 9" hoop would work but the pattern ended up being almost 15" when using 14 count Aida. I think I’ll take your advice and test it on a small part of the pattern I can easily repair if it gets messed up. Thankfully this is just regular stitches so no beads or knots or anything!

Thanks for your quick response!

It looks amazing! I feel like all the different shades in the hair would have driven me nuts lol

I just put a big rubber band around my ID, my debit card, my laundry card and a little cash!

Not true! I stopped carrying a wallet almost 2 years ago!

There are filter apps you can put on your phone to help identify them since they’re usually calling voip. I know the FCC is trying to ban spoofing and you can report spoofing on their website