Why Did YOU Start Crafting?

[FadedLeaves]

Well i've been crafting as long as i can remember. I have always been creative. When i got married and moved away my mom said "well there goes my imagination. my house will look awful now" lol

I have done many different things but find i love scrapbooking, designing floral arrangements, cross stitching, jewelry, and other beaded things the best. My online shop shows how i cant stick with just one thing. LOL

I really got into selling it just this year when i was diagnosed with a health condition that makes it almost impossible to work a "normal" job. With my husband's encouragement i started selling my crafts online. Its been an exciting venture so far.

Im glad to be a part of a board of other crafty minded people.

[dahlish]

I asked my mom to teach me how to knit on a whim 3 years ago and have just taken off with it ever since!  I married into a super crafty family so my SIL and I have craft nights every once in awhile and stamp curtains or make hair wreaths   I love the feeling of making something .vs. buying it!

[nanher]

WOW, it was so long that I started crafting. When I was very young I larned how to sew, my Mom taught me & I also learned some in homemaking. From there it just kept going, I did alot of sewing in my teens-made myself alot of clothes, baby gifts. I made my wedding gown along with bridesmaids(some I made, some I helped with) & flower girl dresses. Then I got into crafting of many different things, I used to make Cabbage patch dools & dress them to order. I have done cake decorating & candy making. Soaps, candles,quilting-the list just goes on. Then I decided to try my hand at painting, so I got inot one stroke. I taught myself & since then I have just kept going with my own style. I enjoy it very much, except somedays that everything seems to be wrong! So, that's about it for how I got going on many crafts! Very intersting to read everyones' stories how they got into crafting!

[buddingcreations]

My mom was always the crafty type but she never really had the chance to express it because of financial situations. I have always looked up to her and use to do crafting with her when i was a child. I still remember by first set of beads. I was 4 and they were the king that had links on them that you just linked together. Do you remember those? Well, ever since i have loved beads.

I first started making jewelry as a way to make some extra money! I didnt do very well and I was just really not that into it. One day I was looking for beads that had flowers on them as i was going to create a springtime bracelet and that is when i saw my first french beaded flower!!
I fell in love! I was awed by all of the detail that when into every petal and leaf and the time it took for someone to make it.

I had to learn so i bought a few books and taught myself the craft! I have been doing it ever since and it has been years and I am still loving it. Not only does it bring out my need to create but it also is a way for me to remember my mom. as she not only loved crafting but gardening. She loved flowers and now that she is gone, i can carry on where she left off!