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DIY Galaxy Stress Ball

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DIY GALAXY SQUISHY STRESS BALL & Glitter Galaxy Slime Ball!

Watch the video below to learn how to make these funky Galaxy style Stress Balls.

Forget about the squishy fun of these as that’s a given but do Stress balls actually help with stress?

The stress ball invites you to squeeze and release. The benefit of squeezing the DIY stress ball is that it releases some kind of built up (negative) energy which it turns helps to relieve your stress.

Squeezing a stress ball is not a long-term solution for stress and or anxiety, it can help at that moment and it can help prevent the stress from building up into bigger medical problems, such as a headache or a migraine. The physical squeezing motion of the ball acts as a muscle memory reminder to relax all muscles that are tight.

 

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How to Store Embroidery Needles

I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]