You just have to own a lot of expensive, stupid craft crap.
That’s your thought for the day.
L
So I have a bunch of expensive craft stuff, so this means I don’t have to feel obligated to do anything with it?
I beg to differ.
I, too, have a lot of “expensive, stupid craft crap”. If i’m not creative, it remains “stupid craft crap.” If I am creative, it becomes the next Monet.
Hey! Stay outta my craft room, you SexyWriter you!
I have PLANS for all that cool stuff.
you know… eventually…
Sorry, my head is too full of crap to absorb your thought of the day.
Hmmm…So I guess that means you have a bead box and I have all of this wonderful jewelry…
No, no. This means that I am the only person in the greater Boston area who owns a paper punch that makes tiny cut outs of silverware. So I made a card for my sister with a tiny fork on the front and the inscription “Fork It” on the inside.
Sure, it takes some creativity to use your craft junk. But some things are just too easy.
L
I’m afraid.
Once I become a mother, will I suddenly acquire all this craft junk to go with scrapbooking and a bazillion pictures and never have time to actually make the scrapbook?
[sub]I tried it once with the Guides and I have a funky page I made. I’m sooo tempted to go out and get supplies and make a Baby’s first year book and I haven’t even had caterpie yet.[/sub]
You don’t have to be a mother…you can just be nuts. Here is my advice for you:
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Don’t worry about whether you’ll actually USE the craft junk…just buy a bunch of it. If you want to learn to knit, buy 30 skeins of yarn. Scrapbooking? Fourteen paper punches and 32 rubber stamps.
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Ignore everything else while you indulge in your new hobby. Work, housework, eating, sleeping…all those things can wait. You have GOT to make that fork card RIGHT NOW. Making stuff counts as being “busy” and thus is a good excuse for ignoring that pesky phone call or demand from someone. Practice saying this:
“I can’t do it now! Can’t you see I’m busy with this project?”
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Find out where ALL of the craft and hobby stores are in your area. Make enough trips to them that the clerks and store owners know your name.
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If you still have storage space, you’re doing something wrong. You don’t have enough messy and expensive hobbies.
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Foist your hobbies on others. Proudly show off your handmade stuff to people who just don’t care. Or even those who do. Make your S.O., mother, sister, and friends get involved in goofy projects, which you show off at every stage of “completion.”
That should get you started. Hmm…maybe I should teach classes in this stuff.
Laura
Actually I have to admit I have a fair bit of craft stuff. I have no storage space so it just finds it’s way into places.
I have at least 3 cross-stitch projects in various stages of production, along with the scraps of old projects. I have balls of yarn and knitting needles, but I prefer to weild my crochet hook, I have cloth and patterns that I meant to make years ago on my sewing machine. Heck I even have all the badges and such that I earned tucked in boxes with my camp blanket waiting for me to finish sewing them on!
I never did acquire the tole painting items (though I did some of that at one point), I have crafts and stuff galore and I want more! lol
Part of it comes from having a crafty family, part of it from being a Guide and a leader and doing all these nifty little crafts for my camp hat and then sticking them away. I’m actually thinking that since I’m moving in with Mom if she ever needs help I may become a leader again, only Brownies this time as my Mom is Brown Owl. (And you should see the stuff she has piled around that’s not even hers but belongs to the unit!)
I’ve never run out of projects to do, only time to do them in! At present I’m crocheting a blanket for caterpie but the way I’m going that won’t be done until after he/she is born!
Oh, you are doing well, Flutterby! Having or being involved with kids helps one’s habit along nicely, no? I find that kids like to glue stuff together (bits of paper to other bits of paper, glitter to the dog, etc.) I also find that they require costumes for various purposes that demand that you become crafty.
Currently, I have two sweaters, one pair of socks, and an afghan in the process of being knitted. I think multiple projects in process should be mandatory.
L
Yes it does. You have to come up with all these crafts for them to do to foist off on their parents as gifts so the parents can never throw them away 
My Mom still has a bazillion crafts of mine that I made when I was little (gingerbread men made out of paper to hang on the Christmas tree for example. That’s at least 16 years old, the scented markers I used no longer have any scent to them.) I’m as much a packrat as my Mom so I expect in years to come I’ll be gathering up a lot of stuff too 
If I give you the wool, can you make me one too?