Disillusioned Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 I enjoy a lot of different crafts. Yesterday I put an old bike together and got it working, then I made a couple of wooden boxes and fixed my sewing machine. I didn't really feel any sense of accomplishment, just doing what I do. I have a couple of old metal-bodied model cars that my mother built when I was little. Apparently my dad got her into that (these were among the few times he got up off his butt to do much of anything), and my mother liked it. She was always building little tables and cabinets when I was a kid after my worthless dad left. Has our society become so pre-packaged and disposable that creativity has become a bad thing? I'd put myself back on the market if more women liked to make stuff, or at least if they came out of the closet about it. Link to post Share on other sites
SpiralOut Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 I love making things too, although I don't know how to fix machinery or do carpentry. Have you ever checked out craftster.org? It is filled with creative people and discussions and photos about the stuff they make. There are lots of people like us around, sometimes we're just hard to find. I grew up with very crafty parents. My mother would always teach me crafts and have me and my friends do crafts at my playdates and birthday parties, and my father built (and still builds) furniture and odds and ends out of wood. I don't relaly craft as much as I used to but I'll occasionally break out the sculpy clay and attempt to make earrings, or decorate plain photoframes. Link to post Share on other sites
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