The "Face" Behind the "Name".

You're probably asking yourself, "What is there to explain?" It's obvious, right? I'm a crafter and I live in the suburbs. You're right but I'm also so much more than that.

Those that know me, whether it be for 20 something years or 2 weeks, may say I'm boring. I've learned something, though, boring doesn't mean I'm not interesting.  No, I don't like to go to the bars. Yes, I'd rather go out to dinner and to see a movie or even stay home. No, my life's ambition isn't to be CEO of a company or to receive the teacher of the year award. Yes, I'd rather stay home with my children and raise them. No, I don't like to talk about investments, the stock market or politics. Yes, I'd rather talk about Disney World (my happy place), my favorite TV shows & movies, or places I want to go on vacation to or have been. Like many of you, I'm a wife, daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, babysitter, friend and one day, I'll be a mom-and that's good enough for me.


I've been into crafts ever since I was little. I was the kid who chose to stay inside at summer camp and make a frame out of popsicle sticks instead of playing dodgeball in the blazing summer sun. Scrapbooking and sewing are my two favorite things to do. Sewing has recently become an everyday hobby of mine and I've quickly become attached to my machine. I dabbled  my "foot" in it over and over again for many years but it just never caught on with me. Thanks to a basic sewing class (thanks to my neighbor who invited me to go along with her) and my new sewing machine (thanks to my mom that purchased it for me), I can now say that I love to sew! Plus, did you ever go to a craft store and see all of that amazing wonderfulness that is fabric? I could get "lost" for hours just choosing coordinating fabrics for my latest project!

Scrapbooking has been something I have been "in to" for over 10 years. I owe my increased interest and ability to be more creative as of late to my mother and father in law who gave me the Cricut for Christmas last year. That little gadget opened my eyes to a whole new world of creativity in scrapbooking. It's so much more than pasting pictures down onto pretty paper. It's expressing how you felt at those moments in those pictures through the use and with the help of all those materials and tools. I love to relive those memories every time I create a scrapbook page.

So, for now, I'll leave you with this because I've never been very good at conclusions and I like to think that there is a song lyric to define every moment of my life: "I love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life."-Darryl Worley