Gettin' Crafty

I have always been the crafty kind. I have dabbled in many arts and crafts and love reading crafty blogs--wishing I had the time and money to be doing a "project" every weekend. Several years ago a friend of mine and I started up a little boutique during the holidays. We gathered all our crafty friends and sold our stuff for a couple of days. We transformed my friend's house into a nifty, cool, little store and all our friends would come and shop and buy our things. It wasn't your typical cheesey boutique. It was cool, and fun and grew to be a very large event. The money I made covered all our Christmas presents and then some. Then I moved away and it got to be too hard to keep coordinating it all, so we gave one last farewell boutique and people were sad to say goodbye.

Fast forward a couple of years and here I am getting ready to do it all again with another friend, in a new town. I am making these little magnets, 300 of them to be exact. I am selling them with little silver tins so people can pick their own color combos and put them in their own tins. 

My husband thinks I've gone crazy with all that I am doing. But it is just another outlet for my creative spirit--you gotta feed it!

I love making these little goodies for the same reason I love photography. They are little pieces of art and the gratification is instant. I have realized over the last few years that I am a artsy spirit stuffed inside a product-over-process personality. This explains why I have failed at scrap booking: it never ends. I need an end. I need to see my creative vision realized, like now. It is why I found my photographic spirit soar when digital photography became available. I could instantly see the fruit of my creativity and learn from my mistakes in the same moment. (Can you tell I am a hands-on learner?)

In the next two weeks I will also be sewing my brains out. I am making some baby blankets. Of course I get drawn into coordinating all the cute fabric that I find online, but now I have to sit down and sew it all up. I am dreading it--and now you know why. The process is too long. I need to hire someone to do my dirty work. Oh to be a top designer with all my little workers floating around working my visions into reality. That would be so cool. Someday...