A Year of Crafting Joy: Creating Beauty, Hope, and Magic Every Week of the Year

In these stressful, anxious times, joy can be hard to find in your life. Maggie Oman Shannon has the solution in A Year of Crafting Joy.Designed to instill simple happiness, calm, and a sense of peace into everyday. Organized by each week of the year, the author provides a wide range of crafts, inspired ideas, and practices to cultivate a sense of gladness. Through revealing interviews, personal stories, and forty suggested activities, the author shows how creative processes can become spiritual practices.In this crafty, cozy book, you will create:A Sacred Heart Bowl to remember all that is meaningful in your lifeA window Herb Garden to bring nature inside the homeJunk Journals for savoring the special moments in your life A Family Recipe Cookbook to pass on legacy meals and treats Fairy Light Landscapes to light up the darkness with magic In this guide to peace of mind, you'll find inspiring ideas for how to do exactly that through a wide range of creative exercises. Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a practice with enormous physical, mental, and spiritual benefits. By immersing ourselves in a craft with intention and mindfulness, we can quiet those voices around us and in us — we can enter sacred stillness. Read more