As I mentioned previously, I am a bookworm (bookwhore) and I am very proud of it. Before my mother decided to get her second Masters degree and then her doctorate, she was an art teacher. I don’t think I inherited her talent for drawing. I do think I got her organization trait and her ability to be patient with children, animals and with inanimate objects. From her I also inherited her love for music and wanting to sing. I don’t think I am a great singer but I can carry a tune and I did earn some medals while in concert choir, so I guess I can’t be that bad. From my father I inherited my love for sports and athletic ability. An ability I might add that I haven’t used in the past few years, much to my dismay. The point of this drawn out background information is to say that I never had any crafty hobbies growing up.
A few years ago when I went to visit my great friend of many years (13 years to be exact), Judy, in London I learned something I never thought I would be good at…crocheting. I am a visual learner so it was great to have her show me. I have since then learned to crochet scarfs and hats. I have tried to learn to crochet animals and toys from books but I still haven’t mastered the ability to read the short script language of crocheting and with no one here to explain it to me I have sort of given up on it for now. Since 2007 (when Judy taught me how to crochet) I have decided to try and find other crafts I could be good at. As mentioned in my Junkie blog, while in high school I learned how to make a country house facade from coffee stirrers. I decided to see how good my memory was a recreate one. You can see the end result here.
Last year as a Christmas present for the girls in my family I decided to try and make little party headbands. It was a learning experience with feathers and a hot glue gun. Here is an example of two headbands I created:
My Mom and then pregnant sister-in-law
Being anal retentive I wasn’t very happy with my creations, but being the first time I had done something of that nature I decided that I would improve on the idea in the future. Since then I have been creating new protocol designs for these years party hair pieces along with working with new and more difficult yarns for scarfs. I have had some positive feedback from Will’s mom, sister and nieces on both my crochet skills and my hair pieces. I was in fact commissioned to make a scarf for both of his nieces. Will’s mother even suggested I could sell my hair pieces, but I don’t know if they are good enough, or if anyone would buy them. I guess I will leave it up to my readers to let me know if they are cute enough to sell or if anyone would actually buy them. Here are some examples of simple pieces to the more elaborate pieces.
Purple feathers with silver beads
light blue feathers with clear beads
Clear beads with wire
Here are the scarfs I made for Will’s mom and nieces:
For the 5 year old
For the 11 year old
For Will's mom
So…should I try and sell versions of these crafts?
