Team Gray!

My mother was a real crafting snob. She preferred extreme crafts: forget the bead loom, she was into bead embroidery, ribbon embroidery, crewel work, quilting, tatting, spinning her own yarn, knitting, crocheting, basket weaving, sewing clothes, including my wedding dress. . . She looked down her nose at things like latch hook, or needlepoint. My [...]

Some of the crafts this summer have overlapped, like origami and building a dollhouse out of tiny bricks and mortar. I’ll write of the particular joys of the latter experience at another time. Now for my latest obsession: Origami. I have a few childhood origami memories. I think we did a unit on Japan in [...]

I don’t know if I’ve shared here before how hysterical crafting makes me. Kind of like Scrabble. I had a mother who was really into crafts, and really quick to call my feeble efforts crap. I also have a father who takes Scrabble very seriously, who’s quick to tell me, “you don’t understand the game.” [...]