BurstingBubbles&#x27;s 2021 Wellbeing Blog

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Original post by DrawTheLine

Woohoo! Excited to see how you get on :woo:

I can highly recommend calligraphy or lettering as a good calming hobby!

Thank you! Ooh yes. I'm concerned that my patience for it wouldn't be good (e.g. if I made a mistake and it 'ruined' the whole thing!), but perhaps that's why I should take it up as a hobby :mmm:

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DrawTheLine

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Original post by BurstingBubbles

Thank you! Ooh yes. I'm concerned that my patience for it wouldn't be good (e.g. if I made a mistake and it 'ruined' the whole thing!), but perhaps that's why I should take it up as a hobby :mmm:

Been there :rofl:

I've thrown away so many pieces because I've made a mistake on the finishing touches :colonhash:

so frustrating, but then it feels so nice when you produce something lovely :h:

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OP

Original post by DrawTheLine

Been there :rofl:

I've thrown away so many pieces because I've made a mistake on the finishing touches :colonhash:

so frustrating, but then it feels so nice when you produce something lovely :h:

Glad it won't just be me then :mmm:

Do I need to get some fancy pens? :giggle:

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DrawTheLine

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Original post by BurstingBubbles

Glad it won't just be me then :mmm:

Do I need to get some fancy pens? :giggle:

Oh yes, the pens are the best part :awesome:

I recommend these or these

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Persephone and I are posting to subscribe! :penguinhug:

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becausethenight

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Very excited to see how you get on :smile:

I'd reccommend knitting or crochet as a relaxing arty hobby - plus you can get lovely glittery and colourful wool so even simple things are awesome :yep:

I'm going to make an arts and crafts/hobbies project sharing thread (shameless promotion) and it'd be lovely to see anything you make there!

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OP

Original post by DrawTheLine

Oh yes, the pens are the best part :awesome:

I recommend these or these

Thank you, I'll take a look :biggrin:

Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Persephone and I are posting to subscribe! :penguinhug:

Yay thanks :biggrin:

Original post by becausethenight

Very excited to see how you get on :smile:

I'd reccommend knitting or crochet as a relaxing arty hobby - plus you can get lovely glittery and colourful wool so even simple things are awesome :yep:

I'm going to make an arts and crafts/hobbies project sharing thread (shameless promotion) and it'd be lovely to see anything you make there!

Fab thank you!! :smile:

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OP

Been feeling particularly down the last few days. I'm hoping to have a relatively relaxed weekend, hopefully that will help. Need to actually leave the house for a walk and some fresh air. Barely doing that atm :redface:

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Hope you were able to relax. :five:

re: needing to leave the house :colondollar:

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Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Hope you were able to relax. :five:

re: needing to leave the house :colondollar:

I made sure to get out of the house for a walk on Saturday and on Sunday which was nice :smile:

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OP

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So far I've been gradually reducing screen time. It's tricky because I do find it quite relaxing most of the time so I'm not keen to cut it down loads or too suddenly. But for example my activity time has gone down on Instagram each day :smile:

I've not done any formal meditation yet but I have been doing more mindful activities such as turning off the TV and just looking out into the garden for a little bit and trying to have the TV off when eating. We've had music on a bit more instead of the TV at times too.

I've not started any drawing or reading yet but I did take my SLR camera out when walking yesterday and enjoyed taking some photos. I find photography very calming. Managed to get a picture of our local Kingfisher :smile:

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Well done! All sounding very promising. Keep up the good work! :rave:

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OP

Update (nearly 2 weeks in) :

1. Screen time:

I've been working probably the most on this, as my screen time was getting embarrassingly high, especially on a weekend! I've managed to nearly half my screen time this last week compared to the week before (according to my phone's report and looking at my activity on Instagram etc.). I'm really proud of that :biggrin:

2. Meditation:

Lacking in this area, something to work on! I have done a couple of meditation sessions which have been really nice - but I definitely want to get into the routine of doing even 5 minutes of meditation a day if I can.

3. Hobbies:

Again, lacking in this too. I have done some more cooking and walking. I mean technically we did build snowmen yesterday which is a type of craft... right? :ninja:

but I did find it really therapeutic! We are also having more film nights and actually paying attention to the TV rather than just having repeats of shows on whilst on our phone/laptop - so I guess that's more mindful :tongue:

My aims for this week are:

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Continue to keep my screen time down - at least match if not reduce compared to last week!

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Up my meditation to 3 times a week instead of 2. Slowly work up to remembering to do it most days

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Whip out some of my mindful colouring books to have a therapeutic colour

what did you cook? :gah:

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OP

Original post by laurawatt

what did you cook? :gah:

A Sunday roast yesterday, nothing special, but I enjoyed it :smile:

Want to get back into cooking more from scratch though :biggrin:

Original post by BurstingBubbles

A Sunday roast yesterday, nothing special, but I enjoyed it :smile:

Want to get back into cooking more from scratch though :biggrin:

Sounds delish though :biggrin:

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