After the 10 year or so pity me party had ended I got myself together and started rebuilding my workshop. I say workshop, nothing so grand, it is every nook , cranny and spare shelf available in the little room. It is scattered amongst books, in the cupboard and well , everywhere you look there is a little something , that's my workshop. This time my workshop would not be full of precious metal working tools and equipment and whilst that was hard at first I quickly started to enjoy the idea of making things again. I considered various projects , most were too expensive, or needed space, something I don't have in my little flat. . I chose a sewing machine. This one.
It was a bargain at over 1/3 off the ' on sale ' price. I am the queen of bargain hunters! I have no idea how to sew but really how hard can it be right ? It sat there for a while looking expectant and keen to make a start.
It sat for a very long time. It stopped looking keen and started looking accusingly.
Then my newest friend (and neighbour) Jen moved away. This is how pleased she was to be moving from our little apartments into a lovely big house..
Jen is awesome, I get fun points just for knowing her, she is so much fun to be around. One day whilst visiting with her she asked, "Do you still make jewellery? " except she is an American and so asked if I still made jewelry. I answered no. Went home and embarked on a downward spiral immersing myself in depression as I am wont to do from time to time . After a while though, hang about I thought, I can't make jewellery but I can put things together and I can still make other stuff, then the crafty bug grabbed me all over again. Along with the expensive sourcing of feathers, stones and silver etc came the fun .
Fabric, thrift store heaven
Baubles and beads, my post man started to hate me , the sheer quantity of less than $1-00 free shipping bargains I managed to find on ebay was phenomenal
If there was a sale with a five dollar reels of ribbon for $1-00 free shipping anywhere on the internet I found it bought it and helped keep the Post Office in work on the cheap.
My friends started to collect together broken or unused treasures and pass them along and ideas started flowing. It felt just like old times. I could look at something and see quite clearly how it would look with this alteration or on that piece right there. Ideas. Ideas. Ideas. Not so much flowing but battering me like a tidal wave , moving so quickly that I was forgetting many of them as new ones took their place.
That started in November. I scoured, sourced & swapped , collecting together the bulk of the items I needed and was almost ready, just a couple of unavoidable purchases, just a few essential back bone items needed before I could actually start creating and boom life insists on happening and everything ground to a halt until some living expenses were taken care of. Now, I am well on the way to being sorted and can feel I am almost ready to actually MAKE SOMETHING .
Hats, hat pins, head bands, hair sticks and chokers. Just like when I started making body /jewellery, its all the things I want for myself but cant get hold of with ease, just as the body/jewellery progressed into a million different ideas and creations, some far removed from the original , so are my ideas now bouncing around, beads are becoming feathers, hats becoming Theda Bara style adornments and Pintrest is taking quite a bashing.
In December when I had the cash I bought a domain and in time will up a website called craftycunts.com . Currently just a page marker, soon it will be the store where I would like to shop and if I like it others with my quirks and dark ideas will. It will be a great place to show my creations, link to Etsy and other such outlets and maybe a couple of other Athens creative junkies will join in with me and Crafty Cunts will grow.
and I bought the sewing machine some thread...
