DIY is fun and healthy for the mind. It provides you with a sense of accomplishment, teaches you new hobbies, and also introduce you to concepts and facts you wouldn’t have even thought of. This is the lifestyle that my fellow parrot, Phateemah, lives, and that’s why she’s my focus today on the creative showcase.
Phateemah is a boss at many things, and one of them is DIY. That also means she’s an artist in her own right because DIY is literally art: it requires meticulousness of some sort. I mean, if your hand is always fidgety, how can you cut a piece of cloth to use as a stool cover without messing it up?
But Phateemah says that to get into DIY, no experience in art is needed. “Zilch. None. Anyone can absolutely do it,” Phateemah says. I disagree, for the record, because I think she’s just being modest. However, I agree that it’s not as complicated as trying to sculpt a human being from scratch, and that anyhow a DIY project turns out could be an aesthetic on its own.
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DIY with Teemah
Phateemah tells me of how she began DIY, “Growing up, I used to do a lot of DIYs, from nail shiners to talc powders, to lip balms and decorative items. I’m [also] a hoarder. Whenever my mum wanted to throw away stuff, I’d tell her that I wanted to use them. Naturally, I had to find a way to repurpose everything. I refused to allow them to throw away.
“That began my DIY journey.”
It’s that easy to start your DIY journey, according to Phateemah. Phateemah has gone ahead to make cool stands, vases, pen holders, and centrepieces since then. She’s also made some money from selling these artful expressions of hers. Anybody who enjoys such a fulfilling hobby like this would want to chronicle it, and for this reason, Phateemah has dedicated a whole Instagram page named DIY with Teemah, to this wholesome hobby.
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