I overwhelm myself this weekend (must be a stressful week at work)...I buy so many things at the craft store and at barnes and noble that I can't possibly do them all...I will have to return the origami jewelry kit and the balloon making kit and maybe even the cat training kit.
I did buy glycerin in the solid form, which I use to make soap that turned out kinda neat, but not neat enough that I would buy it if I saw it in a store. They were pretty, in the shapes of muffins, and cinamonny, yet they do have proplene glycol in them (bad!) and are drying (I couldn't find any with more natural ingredients). I need to learn more about soapmaking before I find something I truly would want to use my own bod.
I also buy a knitting loom...all my attempts at knitting have been unsuccessful in the past. I would start something, but then screw up and couldn't figure out how to get back on the horse. But this loom looks really easy. So I buy one and start making a hat. I buy some really pretty yarn in a beautiful green, the color of my cat's eye's kinda green. I start that and it is truly easy. I figure this out on my own.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
blogging
I am starting to feel so energized by the work of other crafters out there.
I wish crafting blogs were around when I was in high school. I was just as obsessed with crafts back then, but had no friends who were into them, and so I sort of suppressed my craft passion. I mainly crafted on my own or with my mom or aunt. I made lots of embroidery towels and pillowcases back then and gave them as gifts, but it was always hard to find pretty and cool patterns. Sometimes I created my own.
I wasn't artistic in the sense that I couldn't draw, can't draw. But I always had the urge to create, to make beautiful things with color and fabrics and thread and paints too, but not in the sense of someone like Renoir who can paint a beautiful scene.
Now I realize there are so many people out there to connect with online. So many beautiful blogs! I'm inspired to make mine beautiful as well!
I wish crafting blogs were around when I was in high school. I was just as obsessed with crafts back then, but had no friends who were into them, and so I sort of suppressed my craft passion. I mainly crafted on my own or with my mom or aunt. I made lots of embroidery towels and pillowcases back then and gave them as gifts, but it was always hard to find pretty and cool patterns. Sometimes I created my own.
I wasn't artistic in the sense that I couldn't draw, can't draw. But I always had the urge to create, to make beautiful things with color and fabrics and thread and paints too, but not in the sense of someone like Renoir who can paint a beautiful scene.
Now I realize there are so many people out there to connect with online. So many beautiful blogs! I'm inspired to make mine beautiful as well!
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