Are you into arts and crafts? If not there are many reasons that will make you want to get into arts and crafts. Not only is it fun, but it has benefits that can help you build up different qualities that can completely change your life. Not to say anyone's life is bad, but certain if not you'll enhance the quality of your life through arts and crafts. Arts and crafts helps you to think outside the box and broaden your skills.

I love my arts and crafts hobbies. They allow me to unwind after hectic parenting days and they give me permission to take some time out for me. My personal favourite hobbies are:

• sewing: I love making all sorts of gorgeous outfits for my daughter. Whilst I have a normal sewing machine, it is my embroidery sewing machine that makes me smile and makes my heart tick a little bit faster.
• scrapbooking: I can't go a day without touching my die cut machine to whip up something large or small. I love recording our family moments and stories through this crafty hobby.

Here are some of the benefits I have personal seen when I make sure that i have enough time for my crafty hobbies:

Enhanced energy with better moods

Arts and crafts allow you to tap into your inner creativity. It stimulates the mind making you want to focus more on the task at hand. Once you creative mind starts to process a goal of finishing a project, it will then give you a burst of energy to creatively, create artistically. A person with heightened energy will have a clear and positive mood. Creative energy for the arts and crafts that are made will also help you to maintain focus for any lengthy amount of time.

Learning persistence and dedication

Learning persistence and dedication can go along way. A strive to be creative and learning to master the craft will help you to build an abundance of patiences. It takes patience to do most things in life, but arts and crafts will help to build persistence and dedication as that's what it takes to master them. In learning persistence and dedication through arts and crafts, they will translate into other areas of your life.

Enhancing your confidence

The more you create with arts and crafts you become more confident in the work that you do. You will notice yourself become more confident in any project you do as your work becomes better. also as your creativity enhances you will become more confident in anything you do artistically. When doing arts and crafts the mind becomes sharper in thought and more focused to get the work done. With a sharper mind and focus this helps to build confidence as well, which makes any project easily doable.

Continuous growth and learning

In life you never stop learning or growing as a person. Through arts and crafts you have the continuous creative drive to create in new innovative ways. You will always look for new methods to learn to create different things that will set you apart artistically. It will also help you to grow upon your skills as an arts and crafts person. This will make you more embracing of learning and growing in any environment, not just limited to arts and crafts. You will never be a person that stands still, willing to grow and learn and create more and provide new ideas.

Appreciating what you do in life

When you are creating something new it takes effort, time and perseverance. Through these three it makes you more appreciative of what your are creatively making. No matter if it arts or crafts, saying you've done a project from start to finish will make you more appreciative of it. The amount of effort placed into creativity differs for everyone, but that won't make you place any lesser value on what you've done.

No matter what your approach to arts and crafts maybe, it is certain to help you grow as a person. From beginner to the well established artists and crafters the journey to learn and continuously better yourself becomes inevitable. With new methods and different approaches to arts and crafts it will make any person dedicated, focused, creative, appreciative, energetic and most definitely confident in what they do. And don't forget that arts and crafts is beneficial to your kids as well!