About me

Crafting since the dawn of time. 

Yes, I am old; I come from a time when such things as Michaels, JoAnn's, let alone Amazon, did not exist. 

I had to create things from cardboard, string, and masking tape. There were no such things as YouTube where you could find out how to do anything. It was created and failed on your own. Took me years to figure out Gingerbread houses were not made from real Gingerbread! But I digress. 

Crafting has always been a way for me to entertain myself as an only child of neglectful parents. As a preteen, I created my own paper doll clothes. It frustrated me that they didn't have backs, so I made them so that they wrapped around. Fail! Then, I built an appropriately sized dollhouse for my Penny Bright doll. She was a 6-inch tall doll. I felt that she needed an apartment. So I made one for her out of a cardboard box. My dad promptly threw it away. Long story and you thought you had problems!

At 14, I learned to knit from my aunt, and then I taught myself embroidery and crocheting from a magazine. Yes, we read to figure things out, believe it or not. At school, I learned how to sew and make my own clothes. They don't teach that anymore.

When I was old enough to go to classes, I found many people the same as me. Amazingly, they too gather all the things needed to do a hobby, and then once mastered, they find a new hobby. I thought I was the only one who did that. MY PEOPLE.

Now I am here with a YouTube channel, a blog, and, god knows, a house full of materials I could open my own craft business. 

I have a family of craftspeople, too. Apparently, my dad is where I got this from, and I have passed this obsession on to my children. You are welcome, kids, and we all make different things, and I am very proud of all of them.