Life Away From The Office Chair

Today is International Lefties Day! I'm excited we backwards people get a special day just for us. We deserve it.

Growing up, being left handed has always been a struggle. Normal activities become a challenge. Just imagine growing up doing every thing backwards. I have a brother, and a couple cousins that are left handed too.
Here are just a few things I have struggled with and had to learn backwards at one time or another.
All lefties will agree.

Everyone that tried to teach me to tie my shoe was right handed. Took me forever to learn this task.
School desk were always made for right hands therefor I never had that comfortable arm rest when I had to write all those repeated sentences.
speaking of writing, my hand would drag across the writing making a nice charcoal stain down the side and up to my wrist.
During art and craft time, the teachers would ignore me as in gave up on me because it was no use.
Spiral notebooks, the spiral thing was always an interference while trying to write.
Cursive writing never looked right. This was invented by a right handed person for sure.
No camera has the snap button on the left side. This has been awkward at some point.
Cutting up food freaks everyone else out.
Most crochet instructional videos are right handed so I learn every new stitch backwards.
Have to wear a watch on the right hand just so it doesn't get scratched up.
I have to put my computer mouse on the left side of the key board.
Everyone and I mean everyone will see you do something and say "are you left handed?"

Fortunately, my daughter is also left handed, so yep, I taught her everything just fine. I know that was Gods plan.

Next time you watch TV, count the actors that are left handed. You may be surprised at how many.

I have always been a resourceful person who thinks it is important to come up with ideas that use things we already have. I feel like there is a lot of waste in the world and people take for granted the useful things we throw away every day. This is also why I believe in shopping small businesses. They have a dream and a focus to create useful things people want or need. This is what keeps the world going around and people grateful.

I discovered a small business that uses donated scrap wood to make hand carved bracelets. Morning wood bracelets are family owned and operated right here in the USA since 2017. Their business began by accident when they hand carved a piece of jewelry for a friend and people fell in love with it.

Each bracelet is carved by hand using recycled wooden materials. They do not use any paints or dyes in their art. The natural colors in the wood they use paint the story. Each design is unique and no two pieces are the same. I was excited to receive two Morningwood bracelets in the mail. Every bracelet comes with a handwritten note by the creator that lets you know what kind of wood was used to create your bracelet. This adds a special personal touch.

I received a starfish made from reclaimed Maple.

I also received a little “ILY” hand sign made from a recycled skateboard. The wood on a skateboard is layered with different colors that bring out all the colors for the charm.

Morningwood bracelets remind me of why I love shopping small businesses. They appreciate your business and find ways to give back.

10% of their sales go to charities from helping families in need to disaster relief. How cool is that? Someone gives them scrap materials, they make it, you buy it, they give away portions to help others and you have a cool piece of handmade art to wear.

You should go check them out at Morningwoodbracelets.com. You will be amazed at the delicate craftsmanship put into each piece. If you have Instagram, you can find them at @moringwoodbracelets where you might see videos of the bracelets in the making.

I love wearing my new bracelets and they are a fun conversation piece. I would love to know which design you like best. Check out their website and come back here and comment which one you like most. But let me warn you, the decision will be hard.

Shop: Moringwoodbracelets.com