#PaintGem

[dominiquewritesthings]

What do you prefer, art or real life? Personally, I prefer the art, because as much as I love June (my dracaena plant), I love the texture and sparkles of the gem art.

If you want to make gem art like me, check out paintgem.com and use code DOMINIQUEWRITESTHINGS for 10% off of your purchase.

[pacificislander2024]

Tulip

A relaxing thing to do before the sun goes down.

[glashtyn]

I didn’t need a new hobby! 🫣😂 But I now see the appeal. This is an incredibly relaxing way to spend an afternoon. #diamondpainting #paintgems #hobbies #crafting #relaxing https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1IB0hu2Ag/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[storm-surge-art]

Cute diamond painting I completed 😊 from the PaintGem company!

[museinspo]

NOT the same anon, but ... shockingly someone else with OCD who likes to diamond paint, AND someone who also has trich tendancies (i rub my eyebrows until they simply aren't t here anymore) -- if you found diamond painting too long to complete, take a look into paintgem. they're tiny diamond art paintings, themed to a kit, and they take a LOT less time to do. a couple hours to complete a whole painting.

i've also found making paper stars really, really helps keep my hands busy!

Oh, they look so cute! Thank you so much for the suggestion, I really appreciate it. I wish you all the love for your own journey with ocd and trich <3

[cornerstone-of-my-heart]

"this is your sign to romanticize your life with high functioning anxiety"

Lmao okay ad for PaintGem art please tell me how romanticize panic attacks and crippling fear that would be great 🙄

[nightstar208]

Its here now so we are streaming it tonight! Starting at 3:00 PM CST #paintgem @paintgemart #twitchaffiliate Twitch.tv/nightstar208 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBoKbO4HJ5B/?igshid=1179f2e4wkfvg

[plumeriaheart]

things i absolutely don’t need: starry night from paintgem things i really want: starry night from paintgem

[everyday-effing-therapy]

17/04/2020

Hi, 

I’m back with another post. Quite recently, I published something in the middle of the night. I ended up not deleting it, although it’s probably not easy to understand what I wrote at all, since you don’t know the context.

So, as you can see, there are worse and better days. Today was alright, although I didn’t sleep well. It was a short sleep and besides, I also had nightmares.

My school year is slowly but surely approaching its end. It’s quite fascinating, like we just know we won’t see each other again in the school scenario.

I already miss them and we haven’t even said farewell yet.

I feel like my chances of getting into the uni I want are quite high, although I don’t want to jinx it. I’m just really hoping that everything will be alright and in September I will be happily living some countries away.

I told my parents today that I probably won’t eat breakfast with them tomorrow, cause I am tired and will not happily wake up early. My dad jokingly told me that family breakfasts on weekends are family tradition. I thought about it and decided to get up.

If everything goes well, hell, even if it doesn’t, the likelihood that I will not be living with my parents in September are quite high. I just have two more months with them and then we’re on our own. 

It’s weird, how you’ve lived with somebody your entire life and suddenly it changes. And yes, it probably shouldn’t feel so sudden, cause you knew it will happen, but you just kinda didn’t think about it. 

So, that’s where my thoughts go nowadays.

I like the online classes, I like how nice the teachers are to us now, in all of the bad things that are happening right now this will be the good one I’ll remember. 

Every single day I read a topic from a huge biology book. It keeps me sane. It makes me feel like I’m doing something productive. I also practice my French reading abilities. I read texts out loud and then answer questions to them. I keep track of everyting I’ve done and everything I still have to do. I like plans. They make me feel safer. More proud when I see just how many things I actually did.

I also exercise everyday. We came back to exercising with my mom, but apart from that I also do split challenge that takes up about 30 minutes every day and also a short, 6 minutes series of slimming and strengthening exercises. 

I am glad that I decided to do so, because I didn’t feel like my body actually got stronger and now I do. Also, I gained a tiny bit of weight, and although I still am much slimmer than I used to be, I do want to lose a few pounds, so I don’t want to give up just yet. 

I try to eat less of unhealthy things, I probably will do the four day juice cleanse in some time and I drink more herbal teas. My dad used to bring a lot of good quality ones from his work and they just sat around in the kitchen, not really used. So now, I drink them, cause after all, that’s probably the best thing for me to drink.

Easter was really fine, although smaller than usual. We didn’t prepare much food and managed to eat it all in two days. I like food we usually eat during Easter so I wanted us to prepare at least something and I am glad we actually did. 

I ordered some clothes online, out of boredom and panicked realisation that I actually don’t have many clothes in which I feel comfortable while going out. 

Also, my paintgem canvas came in mail. I waited for it a lot, so I am glad that it finally came. For those of you that don’t know what I am talking about, it’s a glued canvas that comes with a pen and a lot of gems. On a canvas you have little squares that tell you where you are supposed to put each gem and you just do it. It’s a very relaxing exercising, which might take up more than 10 hours, depending on the size of the painting. 

So far, I really liked it and in a second I am going to do some more. Not a lot, probably, because I have that headache that comes and goes and I just can feel it coming. Besides, I am tired, from the lack of sleep, nightmares, exercising, online classes that I had plenty of today.

We even had a literature class and our teacher really didn’t want to do it online, but she tried today. It quite didn’t work and we had to finish earlier, because I couldn’t make out anything that she was saying.

So, it’s weekend again. Sometimes it feels so strange. Like I don’t really know what’s going on. And what I know is that exactly last year I was in Gold’s house on a party and he told me to sign his wall. 

I guess it’s still there. 

Have fun and stay safe,

C

[343pm]

Saturday, July 31, 2021 — paintgemming 🖌️💎 (don't mind my sundaze shirt xo)

[pacificislander2024]

Iris

[pacificislander2024]

Tiger Mimic Queen

[343pm]

Monday, July 19, 2021 — paintgemming and Love Island recapping 🖌️💛🏝️

[everyday-effing-therapy]

08/08/2020

(A snippet of a post I have never finished - and never posted) - Updated edits written in bold.

Oh dear Lord, 

Hello hello, it’s the nameday of the month and I can surely say that I’m done. 

I’m done. I’m done with everything that I have to go through right now, and although I am well aware of the fact that it could be much, much worse, I also do not have the mental health to be dealing with all that stuff right now.

To tell you the truth, I feel like shit. 

I can’t find a place to live in, I have hundreds of things to do, the introduction days on my uni (that I will not attend) are trying to scam me for 50 euros, the coronavirus cases are getting bigger than they’ve ever been in my country, I live on caffeine, stress, tears and headaches. 

I literally want to cry so badly right now. The stress is eating me from inside out. I know that there are people who have literally gone bald or got grey hair overnight and although I don’t think that it will be the case, cause that usually happened to people during war, I can still safely assume that my current stress levels will take a toll on my body and it’s something that scares me shitless. 

Last night I felt a bit better, as I usually do feel less stress at night. I am aware that nobody will respond to any of my emails, nobody is going to need my attention and I can’t do anything.

Therefore, I am saved at night. 

So, last night I did a large bit of my paintgem painting, watched some the Sims gameplays and overall, had fun.

Which cannot be said about my mood since this morning. The last time I have felt so badly was probably two years ago and I also remember that I felt far better at nights than during days. 

I hate feeling that way, I absolutely hate that constant tiredness that I’m experiencing, as my stress is literally making me die. 

In other news, I had my birthday last week. It was a nice event, with my parents, grandmas and my friends over. We drank a lot, my parents were really sociable, they told us different stories and on the whole, I felt really warm and giddy the entire evening.

I didn’t get any presents, but I guess that’s alright since my dad is offering to pay all the university costs. No matter where I’ll end up studying, it will still cost a small fortune, so I am really thankful for the opportunity either way. 

With that being said, I really do not want to be staying in my home country for more than it’s necessary, so I am definitely going to try to get enrolled next year, if this year doesn’t work out. 

Except that it will. It will work out, I am sure of that and I am putting that out into the universe. (And it did. It did work out.)

So, there were lots of amazingly nice people who wrote me memorable birthday wishes, some of which I truly did not accept. With that being said though, (I’ll never find out what I wanted to say here)

[343pm]

Monday, July 5, 2021 — paintgemming 🖌️💎🍹

[343pm]

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — All Hands ft. PaintGeming 💻🖌️