Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Catharsis via Hot Glue Gun Crafts - DIY Waterfall Projects



Hopefully, this is my last DIY for Hot Glue Waterfalls for a while... maybe forever--kinda been there done that-- got 4  handmade waterfall DIY projects in my house that I don't know what to do with.What is interesting about this brief Hot Glue Waterfall DIY era in my life is that I recently removed all of the pictures of waterfalls in my home located in my Feng Shui Career area.

Now that I think about it, I don't think it was auspicious for me to have waterfalls in my water/ career area. I think waterfalls are wild, untamed, and passionate. I don't know if this was the best  Feng Shui symbolism for consistency and focus or completing a book series. 


One thing I can testify as my personal truth about Feng Shui is that it has been very accurate in my life reflecting back to me where I am--emotionally, spiritually, financially... not where I want to be. Only when I evolve am I able to see why something needs to be changed. I have learned that I am never able to see what needs to change until, I have already made the change within myself.



I didn’t plan to create or take down waterfalls with any conscious agenda. However, I noticed that I had several questions that echoed through my mind while making these hot glue gun crafts symbolizing water: “Why am I here? Where do I belong? Am I where I am supposed to be at this juncture in my life? Or Did I miss my opportunity to be all that I came to planet earth to be?



 


In this DIY Handmade Waterfall Project, learn how to make a hot glue gun water fall using this easy hot glue craft tutorial. I let my imagination run wild and turned the hot glue waterfall into a water fall of flowing hot tea surrounded by sugar cookies, donuts, and slices of cake. I used a tea set from the toy store in this tutorial. I hope you enjoy making this hot tea water fall as much as I did. Thank you for watching







While making the hot glue gun waterfalls, I think I have come to the conclusion that belonging implies a static state of existence. However, life is not about where you belong—life is about flow. Life is about change. Life is about movement. Every atom of the universe is shifting to a place that never existed, and will never exist again.




Nothing stays the same because we would have to be the same person who experienced it the first time. Therefore, as we grow spiritually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically; we morph into beings that never existed before equipped to ride the tide of the moment.




Riding the tide of the moment means, that I must understand that I don’t control the conditions of the future-- or even the past for that matter-- what is done cannot be undone; just like I can’t dictate, control, or shape a waterfall. It moves in one direction, never to be the same through all eternity.

















I think waterfalls are mesmerizingly beautiful and mighty like all majestic life forms. They are meant to be admired from afar as reminders to humans to understand that the way we hold on to life is by learning how to let go and embrace the magic of the moment. I am where I am supposed to be.





Sunday, December 17, 2017

Beauty Secrets LifeHacks – Life Lesson – Celebrate What Makes You Unique




My name is Cassandra, I am a cloth doll maker, and my dolls talk to me—Yeah!!!  While I am sewing my dolls, they tell me their stories.  Dorothy shares her beauty secrets and Life hacks. Her core message is -- Celebrate what makes you unique.



Accentuate what is unique about you. Don’t try to look like or copy the styles of others. The richest and most vibrant expression of you is your original personality and physical pattern.
 

Your true personal power lies in what makes you unique. The more you run away from your true self—the weaker you become as a human being. Your soul power is connected to your authentic beauty and your authentic beauty is your unique expression of your divine truth.

Other people’s opinions, praises, and compliments can become emotional, spiritual, and psychological prison walls that keep you within the confinements of their expectations for you on how you should dress, act, think, and look.

For example, you may wear your hair in a certain hair style that receives many compliments.  Many people would be more inclined to keep this hairstyle because others have approved it.  When the person is ready to try a new hairstyle, they may be reluctant to do so because they will worry about what others may think.

 
Public approval can be a trap that tethers the human soul to the status quo and prevent the human soul from growing and evolving into the full unique expression of their gifts, talents, and abilities.


 You give people instructions on how to treat you—by the way you treat yourself. Sometimes when people say that you are “mean,” “difficult,”  “picky,” and “hard to get along with,”—this is not always an insult. 


Sometimes people don’t like the fact that you insist on being treated fairly and with respect. People typically like it when a person sacrifices their own time, needs, opinions, and resources to make others feel more comfortable.  



Many humans don’t like the fact that you feel entitled to order your food just the way you like it. Fast food restaurants prepare the hamburger before you arrive. 



Fast food restaurants have decided how the average person likes their burger—and if you deviate from this plan—you have become a nuisance to society. You have interrupted the status quo, prolonged the wait for everyone else, slowed down productivity and profit--- because you don’t want ketchup on your hamburger.

 

The fast food workers and the people waiting in line are all thinking the exact same thing—“Who do you think you are – holding up the line—somebody special? Somebody unique? Somebody authentic? Someone that matters? 

Yes, you are special, unique, authentic-- and you matter. You have a right to enjoy your stay on planet earth by accepting and celebrating what makes you unique physically, mentally, and spiritually.


Thursday, December 14, 2017

Hot Glue Waterfalls DIY Removed Writer's Block



The one thing that I am learning about life is that whatever safe and healthy interest you have—you should let them play themselves out.  For some strange reason, I have been obsessed with Hot Glue Waterfalls tutorials on YouTube.

I don’t know why they interest me so much. I mean I can’t swim. I am a doll artist and writer- when I am not teaching psychology. I like to dabble in crafts and  Do-It-yourself DIYs, but making waterfalls using hot glue—I don’t  understand why the heck this interested me so much.






So as I am watching these hot glue gun craft waterfall tutorials, I begin to fantasize about the water turning into chocolate fudge or gold or bubble gum. What’s weird is that I had writer’s block for almost 6 months on the last two chapters of the Jungle Beauty Goddesses’ book  series 3, “Dirty Ball.”  While painting a mountain, I saw the next scene play out in my imagination and I wasn’t thinking about writing or the Jungle Beauty Goddesses in the least bit.

I was thinking about making cotton candy, lollipop, and rock candy trees to add to my bubble gum waterfall. I was thinking about strawberries and bananas gliding down the hot chocolate fudge waterfall surrounded by chocolate covered pretzels and chocolate chip cookies.



I have one more hot glue waterfall tutorial to make and then this waterfall insanity will be out of my system. When I look at these waterfalls, I think I will always remember them as the artistic catalysts that released my writer’s block.


Maybe if you have writer’s block or you are looking for a way to tap into your creativity try making one of these hot glue waterfall DIYs.









Listed below are the DIY Hot Glue Crafts Waterfall tutorials on my Authentik Beauty Handmade Doll Crafts Youtube channel.