{"id":7686,"date":"2022-05-06T04:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalsofmomma.com\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2022-05-06T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:54:13","slug":"how-to-make-time-to-do-what-gives-me-happiness-nandita-pai-shares-about-her-creative-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalsofmomma.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/how-to-make-time-to-do-what-gives-me-happiness-nandita-pai-shares-about-her-creative-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make time to do what gives me happiness – Nandita Pai shares about her creative Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hello! I am Nandita \u263a\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>

I have always been a person with varied interests and one who makes time to pursue each of these.<\/span><\/p>

From a very early age, I discovered that writing came easily to me. I started writing poems at 10 and soon it became my means to express many emotions which I found difficult to speak about. I had a way with words that gave me solace in testing times and joy during celebratory or just everyday moments. I have each of my 200 plus poems handwritten for my record while a select few I post on my blog <\/span>nanditapai.blogspot.com<\/span><\/em><\/a>. About a dozen of my writings have also gotten published in the Women’s Era magazine as well.<\/i><\/span><\/p>

It was soon after my marriage that I discovered my love for cooking and eggless baking. Bread baking in particular. Amidst home and office schedules I used to spend my free time experimenting with recipes and this hobby soon made its way into a food blog <\/span>nansyumyums.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/em>. I absolutely loved maintaining it and connecting with fellow bloggers. It was during a clay modelling workshop that I attended, when the thought of conducting my own baking workshop struck me. I have always loved teaching. During my college days, I have fond memories of tutoring my neighbourhood kids while I myself have never attended tuition classes myself \ud83d\ude05 I felt a different kind of joy when I was able to teach another person something that I know.<\/span><\/p>

So it didn’t take me too long to pursue the little thought and I went ahead and hosted my first baking workshop for kids in 2015. The experience was extremely satisfying that I did another 9 workshops in the next couple of years, for kids as well as adults. I do not consider myself an expert baker, but whatever little knowledge I had, I was happy to impart with beginners.<\/span><\/p>

Once my little boy was born my primary interest shifted to planning activities and creating fun DIYs for him. In 2017, I began documenting our everyday play in yet another blog page sonshinemumma.blogspot.com<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>

It wasn’t until 2020 when I explored the Instagram world and created my handle @sonshinemumma<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>

Another passion that I discovered during my pregnancy was sewing. I wanted to keep myself creatively busy and so just bought myself a sewing machine and taught myself to sew by looking up Pinterest tutorials. I got experimenting by sewing tiny baby things, mittens, hoodie blankets, PJs etc.<\/span><\/p>

When my little one turned 1, I used a few of his first year clothes and created a Memory Quilt. The reception for that was amazing that I found myself starting my own little sewing venture <\/span>@sewminimoments<\/span><\/a> in 2017.<\/span><\/p>

After almost a decade in the IT industry, it felt like I had found my true calling. Creative field is where my heart belongs. Over the past almost 5 years, I have sewed around 125 memory quilts and 230 quilts in total.<\/span><\/p>

Last September a friend Bhavana and I pursued our love for early learning and started a venture @<\/a><\/span>theplayalongproject<\/span> where we curate sustainable play learning resources primarily made of wood.<\/span><\/p>

I follow where my passions take me. I don’t sit around wishing and waiting for things to happen to me. If I want something and spot a slightest gleam of hope and opportunity, I pursue it with all my heart \u2665\ufe0f I have grown up seeing my mother multitask, manage her household duties while pursuing her interests with 200% dedication and my father always making the best of the situations hurled at him and not wasting a second when an opportunity is sighted. I am extremely grateful to have inherited these qualities from them.<\/span><\/p>

I sometimes get asked how I find time to pursue my various interests and that I am lucky to be able to. Well lucky yes, but there is also a whole lot of hard work, planning, struggles and of course blessings that goes behind pursuing what you want.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Most importantly, I don’t FIND time, I MAKE time to do what gives me happiness \u263a\ufe0f<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the Author :<\/b><\/u><\/p>

Working in Software industry for nearly a decade in various roles and\u00a0traveling to client locations, \u00a0Nandita started connecting with her calling towards creativity.<\/span><\/p>

Below are various blogs – social media handles where Nandita’s work is present<\/p>

Instagram :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

Kids \u00a0Play & \u00a0Activities : @sonshinemumma<\/a><\/p>

Learning Kits : @playalongproject<\/a><\/p>

Sewing Mini Moments : @sewminimoments<\/a><\/p>

Blogs :<\/b><\/span><\/p>

Food Blog :\u00a0nansyumyums.blogspot.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>

Writing Poems :\u00a0http:\/\/nanditapai.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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