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It was a really joyful experience to think ages that I got my paints out and
that I was making people happy during started to craft the bear costumes and
this awful time. props from whatever I had in the house
because I didn’t feel that I could justify
It never occurred to me to put the posts a trip to Spotlight as essential if I were
into a book and I certainly didn’t use a stopped by the police! Being a crafter,
camera or try to take quality sewer and generally creative person
photographs which were all taken with all my life I had accumulated a lot more
an iPhone11 very quickly. If I’d thought materials than I had ever imagined. It
ahead, I might have made a better also led me to clean those craft

effort with the lighting and set ups each cupboards out and find all kinds of
day so let’s say the photos and the treasures I’d forgotten I had.
posts are in their original organic state!
So many people suggested that I make I’ve been swamped with thank you
the book that I went ahead. Sourcing a messages online. People told me how
program that was economically much they’d looked forward to the
viable wasn’t easy and I certainly post each day and how much it helped
learned from that experience but I am them get through this tough time of
really happy with the result and the isolation. It offered a little joy amidst a

feedback that’s coming from the first world that was suffering so badly. So,
purchasers. from my safe little ISO bubble it felt
In the book next to each bear I’ve good to be able to continue one of my
written an explanation of how the bear life’s missions which is to be kind and
came about and reproduced the make people feel good.
Facebook message for that post as well
as the number of likes and comments Many of the comments were so
each one received. It’s interesting to heart-warming.
see which were the most popular.

Reading back chronologically through
the seven weeks is a reminder to me of

the weird time it was for everyone so I
included some of the events that were
affected as well.
What started as a challenge between
cousins across the world became so
much more than that. (My cousin was
so busy home schooling her girls that
she only lasted about a week in the

challenge.)

For me, with my normal employment
temporarily on hold it gave me a
positive focus and reignited my
creative side. It was the first time in