El Poder Creador de tus Manos (Esp / Eng)

Amigos recuerdo que las Monjas nos decían que debíamos prepararnos para la vida, que todo lo aprendiéramos nos iba a servir para trabajar y sustentarnos como seres humanos y como ciudadanos donde quiera que nos encontraramos.

Hoy en día es una realidad que la figura del empleo no es tan segura como lo fue para dos generaciones atrás, algo así como hace cuarenta o treinta años, las personas vivían bien con un salario mínimo fijo, eso representaba estabilidad en un hogar, y si en la casa habían dos salarios, pues sus vidas eran más cómodas, incluso se hablaba de la Clase Media Alta y la Clase Media, que eran familias de buen vivir con ingresos suficientes para cubrir sus necesidades y gustos. Hoy en día ya no se habla de vivir de un salario y menos de vivir con un ingreso mínimo, pues no es suficiente para el sustento de una persona, menos para el de una familia.

Por ello es vital descubrir las habilidades y dones que poseemos, identificar cuál nos agrada más, educarnos en ello, convertirnos en el mejor en hacerlo y disfrutar desempeñarnos en eso, obteniendo dinero por hacerlo.

Dicen que quién gana dinero por hacer lo que le apasiona, nunca en su vida trabaja, porque en realidad lo que hace es divertirse y encima le pagan por hacerlo.

Deseo que tú, que te tomaste unos minutos para visitar mi blog y leer este post descubras eso que sabes hacer y te apasiona hacerlo, te eduques en ello y lo conviertas en una fuente de ingreso en tu vida. Y por sobre todo, asegúrate de ser feliz.

Siempre con amor,

Hello beautiful souls of Hive! I am glad to greet you.

Friends in the Discord meetings have heard that I invite you to discover the strengths, abilities and skills that we possess and I do it from the life experience that I have accumulated so far, because from a very young age, thanks to the education that the nuns of Madre Enriqueta gave, I knew my manual skills, with multiple trades that they imply and for me that has been very useful all my life.

The fact of using my hands is so important to me that I remember that one day when I was very young I found myself observing both hands in detail and thinking I should take care of them, they are very important, they help me do everything I imagine.

Can you imagine it? a little girl valuing the importance of having both functional hands, well yes, that was me, the one who found a solution to everything, the one who reasoned like an adult in the face of the challenges that mom discovered she was facing, the one who did everything to behave well and not cause problems or worry to my mother, because she already had enough.

And you will say, what is @abeba up to? LOL. Well it turns out that one of those abilities and skills is sewing, yes I sew from a pant, through any garment, home lingerie, even an awning I have come to make. As I told you, my hands help me do whatever comes to my mind (and here's a wink).

And not to mention the repairs or remodeling that a garment or something that has fabric may require, and that is exactly what I am here to tell you about... a few days ago a friend of mine asked me to make some linings for her chairs of dining room.

It turns out that even though it is a new dining room set, the upholstery was damaged with daily use and that week one of his sons came to visit, he lives in Germany with his wife and two children, the couple are professional musicians, both belonging to the System of Orchestras of Venezuela and it had been a while since he had come to the country due to the commitments that the work he carries out implies. So, she wanted to give her chairs a better presentation.

Unfortunately, she told me two days before the arrival of her son, and since I already had other commitments, I gave them to him after he had arrived. I tell you the process.

The lady had already chosen two cuts of fabric that she had saved, she showed them to me, I calculated if it would be enough to cover the four chairs and when I measured I verified that there would be leftover fabric, so I proposed to use a single cut and save the other, for another sewing you want to do. When we brought the fabric home, we also brought one of the chairs to take the exact measurements and be able to rectify them if necessary.

I confess that it had been a long time since I had been in the business of making chair covers, so I took a moment to figure out how to draw the patterns, which is the first thing we should do in all sewing, unless we draw on the fabric and draw the direct piece (which in this case did not apply), once the patterns were designed, I extended the fabric and began to cut, four cuts of each piece that included the design of the lining.

Then I took my machine and began to assemble the linings, taking care of the details of both seams, because I decided to do a double seam, which includes sewing on the right side, then turning and sewing the wrong side, without leaving threads or lint that betray the technique.

It was exciting to have the first one already assembled, put it on the chair and see that it had turned out perfect (in Venezuela we say "al pelo"), thus confirming that the design was ideal for the work I was doing, I continued with the sewing until I finished the last lining.

To fix the lining to the base of the chair I used a silk nylon thread that I had in the drawer of the machine cabinet, which has been with me since 2002 when I had the pleasure of buying it and I tell you that it is like new, it is super faithful and practical for everything that occurs to me.

Made the covers for the four chairs, I told the lady to come get them and as she was celebrating the arrival of her son that night, we left it for the next day when he coincidentally found me at the stop on the way to the Urbanization, I The queue gave way, we went looking for the linings, his chair and we took them to his house, we dressed the other three chairs and voila! the magic of transformation was done.

At that time not all the members of the family were in the house, only the husband of the Mrs. and her two youngest granddaughters who celebrated when they saw the change of chairs, later that night her children arrived and were amazed to see what beautiful the dining room looked, they asked their mother how she had done it and one of her daughters told them that she had asked me to make the linings a few days before.

Friends, I remember that the Nuns told us that we should prepare ourselves for life, that everything we learned would not serve to work and support us as human beings and as citizens wherever we were.

Today it is a reality that the figure of employment is not as secure as it was two generations ago, something like forty or thirty years ago, people lived well with a fixed minimum wage, that represented stability in a home, and if in the house there were two salaries, then their lives were more comfortable, there was even talk of the Upper Middle Class and the Middle Class, which were families of good living with enough income to cover their needs and tastes. Today there is no longer talk of living on a salary and less of living on a minimum income, since it is not enough to support a person, much less that of a family.

That is why it is vital to discover the skills and gifts that we possess, identify which one we like the most, educate ourselves in it, become the best at doing it and enjoy doing it, getting money for doing it.

They say that whoever earns money for doing what they are passionate about never works in their life, because in reality what they do is have fun and on top of that they pay them to do it.

I hope that you, who took a few minutes to visit my blog and read this post, discover what you know how to do and are passionate about doing, educate yourself on it and turn it into a source of income in your life. And above all, make sure you are happy.

Always with love,