TY - BOOK AU - Iyer, Nandita TI - This handmade life: 7 skills to enhance and transform your everyday life SN - 9780143454588 U1 - 640.19 IYE-N PY - 2022/// CY - India PB - Ebury Press KW - Handicraft Psychological aspects KW - Home economics Psychological aspects KW - Activities KW - Transformative hobbies N1 - This Handmade Life is all about finding a passion and becoming really good at it. Divided into seven sections-baking, fermenting, self-care, kitchen gardening, soap-making, spices and stitching-this book tells us it is all right to slow down and take up simple projects that bring us unadulterated joy. Written in Iyer's signature lyrical and friendly style, the book is about hands-on activities that can be meditative and healing for the body, mind and soul. Taking the reader through myriad personal and transformative hobbies, Iyer has managed to serve up a book that is motivational and inspirational at a time when both are in short order ER -