SCPL Reads: Crafting Happiness

By St. Catharines Public Library - May 11, 2026

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Crafting is more than a hobby - it's a form of self-expression, a cathartic outlet, and tool for healing. A quiet crafting session alone or a boisterous crafting afternoon with friends can make us feel more connected to ourselves and our community. The process of crafts, not necessarily the products, reminds us just how creative, resourceful, and capable we are. Discover your creativity through a variety of mediums with these crafty books from the library.

Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things

Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin

Process, not product, is the soul of a craft practice. Davidson and Tahsin illuminate how craft practice re-introduces balance into our lives and our habits by cultivating creativity, carving space for ourselves, promoting focus, creating a safe space for failure, and ultimately, how to make peace with imperfection.

Borrow Craftfulness

The Making It Guide to Crafting

Liz Welker

A compendium of crafting inspiration and instruction from the creators of ABC's competition series Making It―featuring twenty-five projects.

Borrow The Making It Guide to Crafting

Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

Sutton Foster

The Broadway and television actress discusses how cross-stitching, crocheting, painting and other craft projects kept her sane while dealing with an agoraphobic mother, a painful public divorce, and struggles with fertility.

Borrow Hooked

First Art Kit: 25 Creative Papercraft Remedies for What Ails You

Boo Paterson

First Art Kit: 25 Creative Papercraft Remedies for What Ails You provides art therapy projects including coloring, papercutting, origami, collage, paper sculpture, pop-ups, and the 3D art of assemblage to help you creatively thrive when you are not at peace.

Borrow First Art Kit

Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

Diana Weymar

Featuring essays, exclusive profiles of well-known creatives, and projects that readers can create by themselves or with their communities, Crafting a Better World is a means to stay engaged, make stuff, and hold ourselves together as we navigate this uncertain personal and political landscape.

Borrow Crafting a Better World

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