Craft Your Own Happy: A collection of 25 creative projects to craft your way to mindfulness (Crafts)

My daughter had given a copy of this to a friend, and recommended it to me when I was looking for a birthday gift for a member of the family. Both recipients were very happy with their gifts.

What a lovely book . Full of wonderful crafting ideas that even a novice can achieve.Very clear instructions and beautiful pictures.The author gives an honest and open account of her own mental health and how crafting has helped with her anxiety.This makes it a very refreshing read .And comforting in these Covid times .

Brilliant book, ideal for beginner or intermediate crofters who like the idea of mindfulprojects, with colourful straightforward instructions. Can highly recommend 😀

I love a book that crosses talking about mental health and well-being with practical ways of caring for them. This is more than just a craft book, although the crafts are gorgeous and quirky there is also reasoning behind the makes and how they assist in practicing “Mindfulness”. The introduction gives a brief description of how the projects can help calm an anxious mind. The projects themselves are of varying difficulty levels- I especially enjoyed the look of the cross stitches (even though I have never done one before! Shock horror) , the pressed flower phone case and the Pom Pom foot stool (currently browsing Amazon for a Pom Pom maker). After beginning to make the Yarn Wall Hanging I can say that the directions are simple and easy to follow and I loved the pictures throughout the book.I cannot wait to buy this book for a wonderful friend who I think will love it (and really benefit from it ) too.

I just love the concept of this book. The author encourages you to craft mindfully by choosing crafts to suit your current mood. I seem to be on such a rollercoaster at the moment that this really appeals and chapters give suggestions for those days you just feel like hibernating, when you are trying to tidy and organise, when you need to get outside and more.I am going to adopt the daily ritual embroidery as a reminder to be calm and take time for myself and I want to perfect the origami lucky stars to give jars of affirmations to my family and friends for Christmas.Not only has this book inspired me to do many of the projects contained within it, but it’s made me think of other things in the mindful categories that I can do for myself. Love, love this book and have already followed the author on Facebook. Would make a superb present – Wow.

"Craft Your Own Happy" is full of quirky, simple, and fun projects to help you relax and forget (for a while) how completely crappy life can be. I'm not sure I would actually make any of the projects, but it has given me ideas for my own! The most important thing I've learned from this is that crafting is about the process and not so much the end result. As long as you enjoy yourself and are happy with what you make, then it's no one else's business! Might I suggest a follow-up book called "Just Craft It"?!My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an advance copy to review. This review is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.

Craft Your Own Happy was a super book. Its full of great projects that you can do at home that will definately make you happy.I really enjoyed reading this book and have come away with lots of new creative ideas to get making. The instructions were easy to follow and the photography is excellent as well.

This is a lovely book with a good variety of crafts to interest most crafters.Delivery was completed on 21 December and I have enjoyed browsing the contents although I haven't yet had the chance to make any of the detailed projects.