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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 02 2007 : 1:15:50 PM
Hello All-
I hereby call to order the first ever meeting of the Craftaholics!
First order is to introduce ourselves.
My name is Alee- and I am a craftaholic. I first realized I as a craftaholic when my crafting could no longer be hidden in one room. I now have six large crafting projects in various stages of completion, and we just won't count the little craft projects.
I notice my crafting addiction get worse around holidays, birthdays and the summer. Oh yes, and winter, spring and fall too. :)
Please join me in confessing our Craftaholic nature. Together we can support each other- and craft together! LOL
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 09 2007 : 4:59:43 PM
Jan-
I do that too! I go to craft fairs and to stores and see something really neat and think to myself "How can I do that for myself..." LOL! Sometimes it is the process that is rewarding rather than the end product- eh?
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora! |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 11:05:53 PM
My sister lives in IL and she is crazy over Longaberger. She just got back from Dresden, OH -- makes an annual pilgrimage with her other basket loving friends. She used to sell it and I have been the lucky recipient of a couple of the baskets. They are wonderful! They even have a large one that has a hinged wooden lid and trays you can put inside to organize your craft and sewing items. That's the ticket -- I need to buy that so I can get organzied, right???
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| Carol Sue |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 9:29:29 PM
I needed a good laugh and reading this this evening has certainly done it for me. LOL LOL, oh the ways that we find to get in trouble with....... legally!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Enjoying the moments. |
| owwlady |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 9:08:35 PM
Hi, my name is Jan and I too am a craftaholic. Whole rooms are overflowing, closets are stuffed full, I've tried every craft known to womankind, I sold in craft fairs for 5 years which should have used up lots of "stuff", but it only made more, nothing gets thrown away because "I may need that someday", I look at floss skeins like they're candy, I see stuff in stores and say "I can make that", and on and on and on. The problem is, I like my addiction, it's fun and it's not illegal! |
| BotanicalBath |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 9:04:02 PM
Wow, I thought only peeps from Ohio collected Longaberger baskets. I have a few and I have visited the factory.... and the giant basket Pretty cool place. I even dated a computer guy who worked there....:P... no not long enough to get any cool employee only baskets.
But one day I will go there and do the build your own basket... and get the tour basket... one day. Maybe that should be a farmgirl field trip.
E-
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"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
| Lizabeth |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 7:52:28 PM
Rachelleigh, aren't longaberger baskets beautiful? I haven't yet purchased any, but I have always admired them. I bet your craft things look lovely.
http://www.handcraftsbyheather.com |
| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 7:36:31 PM
PMPL...
My name is Michelle, and I am a binge craftaholic. I hide my projects from others in closets, the laundry room, my desk drawer at work, behind my bed. Sometimes I go for months, just thinking about crafting. Then, my husband will come home and find me in a pile of fabric or peeking up from behind my sewing machine, pins dribbling from the corner of my mouth.
Okay, not dribbling. He he he. This is fun.
We make a difference. |
| BotanicalBath |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 5:32:58 PM
quote:
I reorganize too, but it's really just to find room for more stuff
OMG That is the only reason I see to reorganize. I feel that it would break my chi if I were to disrupt the flow.
Also If I reorganize and make more space... I just find myself filling the void like a seroma.
When stuff is on clearance....
I just cant help myself...
and someone else might get it...
so I need it and I need it all.
E-
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"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
| nut4fabric |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 5:20:57 PM
I had the best laugh yesterday. DH walked out to the mailbox with me and there were 5 items in the box, 4 for me all craft related and one for DH, an AARP newsletter. When I told him about all of us "Craftaholics" he said "you mean crapaholics"? Should I strangle him with some yet to be used craft item? I reorganize too, but it's really just to find room for more stuff, I need to stay away from e-bay. I've had a really lousy day and you girls have made me laugh, I love you all so much.
Hugs, Kathy |
| RachelLeigh |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 4:35:52 PM
Hehe...isn't organizing fun, Annie? I keep all my quilting/sewing/doll supplies in my Longaberger baskets. I have around 30 baskets of different shapes and sizes and they seem to hold everything nicely. I keep all my crafty things in our guest bedroom and work on them in our study....you can usually find bits and pieces of scrap material or thread allll over this house!
my blog: http://catholiccountrygirl.wordpress.com |
| Annie S |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 4:08:12 PM
Rachel, I too go about rearranging my craft room to try and get it more organized. All my yarn/material/knitting needles/cutters, etc. are stored in those stackable clear boxes. I even have one that has wheels on it to roll around. Some of the totes are under my really big table where I cut out my material and work. The closet is filled with even more totes filled to the brim. I need a new bookcase to hold all the books and magazines and binders filled with patterns. But my craft room is my sanctuary from life - especially during football season. I always have at least 4 projects going at the same time and constantly add more to do, which means I need more totes to store it all in. The local Family Dollar store loves seeing me come in and grab a shopping cart to buy more totes.
Peace and Love.
Annie |
| RachelLeigh |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 3:09:27 PM
Hi, my name is Rachel and I too **voice shakes with emotion** am a craftaholic. I love to sew and quilt and make primitive dolls and scrap book and doodle. When I have too many projects going and I don't know what to work on, I will re-arrange my crafting areas to make them "prettier".....at least then I'm accomplishing a "project" by organizing. I love crafting so much I'd love to quit my job and craft and write full time. I wish there was an herbal remedy to cure me of this!!!
my blog: http://catholiccountrygirl.wordpress.com |
| BotanicalBath |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 2:27:20 PM
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My crafting helps calm me down in the midst of stress...and I guess it has some bad points, but mostly it is therapeutic. So I guess I won't call it "aholic" ;-)...perhaps craft-o-phile? ;-)
Nash, but wouldn't that be considered, a "self Medicating" addict?
E-
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"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
| Lizabeth |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 12:43:52 PM
I am dying of laughter. I leave town for a week to see my sister and her new twins, and I am starved for my daily maryjanes site correspondence... anyway I return to find this hilarious thread. oh y'all are too much.
So here is my admission: My name is Heather Lizabeth and I am a craftaholic. I have too many on going projects and am easily distracted by the "next thing" that interests me. Our office is no longer a usable office, it has become my craft area. I had tried to include my husband by having a large easy chair in the room so he could sit there with me while I worked, but right now (and for the last several weeks) the chair has been covered with material, pillows, patterns, books....
I have yet to find a good solution to containing my projects that are in process, however, I just saw these oversized clear thick plastic storage bags ("see your stuff") so I may order a couple of those to try and group the things I need together. Imagine what a time saver to have in a bag the thread, buttons, ribbons, fabric, pattern, whatever is needed all in one see through bag that I can pull out when the mood to work on that particular project strikes me. and I could have one color for clients, one color for personal, one color for gifts... I am excited now... time to place an order! more craft things! ;)
http://www.handcraftsbyheather.com |
| Annie S |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 11:54:29 AM
My name is Annie, and I too am a craftaholic. I knew it was bad when we were drawing up plans for our new house and the first thing I said was that I wanted a craft room - didn't care about any other room in the house as long as I had a room for my stuff. Already the room is too small and I'm having to figure out how and where I can store all the things that follow me home because they know I'll take good care of them. Luckily the spare bedroom is next to my craft room, so . . .
Annie from Custer, SD |
| FarmGirl~K |
Posted - Jul 07 2007 : 9:58:12 PM
Kay I am the same way. I am always taking stuff from mags. My DH says "you will never make that" He is pretty much right, but I like to think some day I might. I go through mine too & filter out what I know I won't & then put them away until next time.
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 10:10:38 PM
Oh Janet -- you're my kind of gal! You're a true craftaholic if you give up your bedroom! I agree that fabric and craft books go hand in hand. My addiction to craft books is almost as bad as my one to fabric. I have binders full of pages I've torn from craft magazines, neatly filed under categories in 3 ring binders. Then every year or so I sit down and look through the binders. All the while I'm saying "Oh yeah -- I was going to make such and such from that pattern or article." Then the binder goes back on the shelf for another year! But I have good intentions.
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| nashbabe |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 7:44:58 PM
My crafting helps calm me down in the midst of stress...and I guess it has some bad points, but mostly it is therapeutic. So I guess I won't call it "aholic" ;-)...perhaps craft-o-phile? ;-)
Crunchy crafty goodness and psychoses...;-)http://nashbabe.blogspot.com |
| windypines |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 4:53:15 PM
Oh this is way too funny--how do I know this??? Because I to am a certified craftaholic. I have done so many things, if I tried to list them, I would forget many. I love knowing that I am not alone, with this "vice". :) My mom taught my sisters and myself alot of the crafting things. Though for us, it was not affordable to buy it, so we HAD to make it if we wanted it. My mom learned the same way from her mom, and so on down the line. On a sad note, I had to give up my craft room, for my dh office area. His computer was in the bedroom, and boy that did not work. So we switched, and the bedroom is just a little messy, with projects and tools of the trade. Also I have projects in one corner of the living room. Michele |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 10:12:34 AM
You all are toooooo much. You're cracking me up. Here I thought I was being good taking my bedroom back after years of it being a craft "corner" that spilled over. Now the corner of the living room is mine and my daughter is always asking. "Don't you notice how we always have to move some project to be able to sit and watch a movie"?
Fortunately we are finishing up a family room for their things so I won't have t worry how far the craft stuff goes as long as I can contain it to one room.
Margie~
Did you find your first apron yet? I'm sure it will turn up.
Probably will show up right after your break.
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and all that dwell therein."
www.torismimi.blogspot.com |
| nut4fabric |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 09:58:00 AM
The UPS driver is at our house so often that the dogs recognize the sound of his truck and wait at the door for him. My crap closet became a crap room a few years ago and there is no hope of it ever ever being just a room again. I love it this way :-)
Hugs, Kathy |
| Nance in France |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 07:35:45 AM
I would tip my hat to you gals, but I am too cracked up at the moment! Ya'll are a hoot. Love the "crap closet", UPS trucks on auto pilot to frequent stops, giving up your own bedroom for craft space (now that is true love or addiction, you be the judge), and the if it doesn't move or resist, craft with it mentality! My husband just shakes his head now, or does the eye roll, whenever I bend down and pick up an acorn or scream "stop the car" on a mountain road so I can hop out and forage some branches full of luscious lichens!! Hopefully I can learn alot from you guys, ya'll are light years ahead of me! Craft on, mommas! Nance
P.S. Don't forget that some craft store chains have online coupons you can print off!!! |
| katmom |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 12:14:11 AM
they call it "Retro", "vintage" & expensive!!!!!!hahaha!. So you are probablly sitting on a gold mine of unfinished craft projects!!!! hee hee hee....
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
www.katmom4.blogspot.com |
| Carol Sue |
Posted - Jul 05 2007 : 2:38:10 PM
Just wait a bit ti will come back in.......
Enjoying the moments. |
| FarmGirl~K |
Posted - Jul 05 2007 : 1:01:52 PM
I guess I would consider myself a craft-a-holic. I love to do them though I'm not creative enough on my own to come up with an original. I seem to get most crafty on the holidays. I like to crochet. That I can seem to finish, although I wouldn't say I am strong in that yet. Most of my craft projects end up 1/2 done in my craft closet... or as my DH likes to call it the crap closet. I like scrapbooking things & have a bit of supplies, but never sure where to start. I have a sewing machine that I have not done more than sew #'s on my DH hockey jersey & hem his pants. I would love to learn a lot more about sewing things.. .totes, quilts, & other fun things. I guess maybe I need to find the thread on mentoring & see if I can learn something new. There is plenty of help on this site for sure. Now if I could learn to stop time for a little bit to get some done. DH doesnt mind all the stuff... but hopes I will finish a few things someday. Some stuff I have had has gone out of style!
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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