I was only four or five years old when I first held a crochet hook, and so began my love of crafting. My grandmother and her four sisters were the ultimate 70s crafters, introducing me to knitting, crochet, decoupage, pinecone wreaths, macrame, Holly Hobby, sewing, and just about anything else you can remember or imagine from that time. And I took to it like a fish to water. Of course, growing up, I didn’t imagine that crafting would ever be anything more than a hobby for me. In fact, I took a semi-hiatus of almost 15 years while my husband and I raised our four kids. Once they were older, I quickly filled my budding free time with my old passions for scissors and hot glue guns. After that, things snowballed.
At the ripe old age of 43, I decided to go to college. While earning my Associate Degree, I took a ceramics class at our local community college. After the first semester I said to my husband, “I think we may have a problem.” After the second semester I amended that to, “We definitely have a problem. I love this, and I don’t want to give it up.”
While most husbands would balk at the idea of spending the amount of money required to set up a home studio for not only crafting, but ceramics, too, mine didn’t bat an eye. It took almost five years from start to finish, but my dream was realized in the form of a 25’x25′ garage-turned-studio on our family farm.
Now not only am I able to craft to my heart’s content, I can share my love of creative expression through classes, group activities, open houses, and guest artists.
