I felt really depressed and unfulfilled during my college days, and to get myself out of the funk I played video games/PC games, all day. I started to feel even worse, because I was sitting in my room for hours on end playing games that in the end, left me with no real substance. I

I decided I wanted to do something more, it had to be something with a real, touchable outcome. I was tired of feeling accomplished over pixels.

I surfed the internet and found dozens of adorable stuffed animals people had created using crochet- I knew that's what I wanted to try. I bought myself yarn, hooks, and a book of adorable zoo animals with instructions.

I taught myself how to crochet and then started doing all kinds of arts; bead, clay work, papercraft, and paint.