As far back as I can remember I've been interested in crafts, some more than others. My mother was almost always knitting or crocheting some project; sweaters for us kids, baby clothes for new cousins, or just something to decorate the house. So it's no surprise that I also enjoy these activities.
One of the earliest crafts I learned was sewing. I actually learned to sew on a sewing machine when I was only 4 years old. I made doll clothes. It has been quite a few years now since I've spent any time sewing and I'd really like to get back into it. It's so much cheaper in the long run to make your own clothes than it is to buy them.
I also started embroidering at a very young age but it wasn't until I saw my first counted cross stitch pattern that I fell in love with it. The orderliness of perfectly even stitches appealed to me immensely. I have tons of partially finished kits and patterns galore. Large, complex, heavily shaded projects draw my interest more than small and simple, but unfortunately my attention is easily interrupted by each new, enticing pattern I find. I am currently working on a cross stitch project and am making a valiant effort to complete it before beginning another.
Plastic canvas captured my interest for several years awhile back. While very similar to needlepoint, which I tried but didn't especially enjoy, the 3-dimensional nature of plastic canvas intrigued me. I have patterns and materials to keep me busy for years. Now if I could just find the time.
I hated the art class I had in Jr High. And I dropped out of another art class in college. I'm certain that my biggest problem with it was having to create something on demand, on schedule, according to someone else's specifications. Sort of like a job. And when my hobbies turn into a job I rebel and just won't do them no matter what. Every time I've ever committed to making something for someone else, with or without monetary compensation, I have never finished that particular project. Oh, I can and have made things for other people, as long as I don't tell them I'm making it for them. Even telling someone else that the project I'm working on is for so and so is sometimes enough to bollix it up.
But speaking of art, I do like to draw, as long as I have something to follow, as in copy. Apparently I have no imagination whatsoever, I can't even draw simple shapes from scratch (I absolutely hate Pictionary for that reason).
Yes, web design is a craft. And since 1997 I have been addicted to the Internet and creating web pages. My web pages. Like I mentioned above, committing to making something for someone else, and then actually doing it, just isn't possible with me. I've toodled around with making my own graphics and I've created several sites that either don't exist anymore or I haven't publicized them so nobody visits them but me. But I still have copies of almost all the pages so I've decided to put them up here for posterity. Maybe someday I'll do something with them. If nothing else, you can see how my talents have improved over the years, or not.
As I've been creating this site I've also been doing a lot of surfing, looking for related sites and such. I've found many more links than I'll list here but you can find them too, just go to google. There are so many more sites now than there were in my earlier days on the web so I've been quite overwhelmed. One of the really cool benefits of all this surfing is that I found some new crafts and reaquainted myself with some old ones. I'll probably be telling you more about them in the future.
Enjoy your look around here, and keep coming back to see what I'm doing each week.