Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Dirty little secrets of the MA, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
May I join the Craft Supplies Party?????

I am sure I have you all beat! Besides just hoarding "stuff"----I seem to have an excess of Craft Supplies to make about 25 different crafts. And--I mean good, meaningful, original crafts. One of a kind!

All my Craft Supplies are in plastic boxes and I DO know where everything is.
For almost 3 years--I held this monthly Craft get-together and we made something or other--NOT always simple.

I started this in an attempt to get rid of some of the supplies I had---but, as I came up with Craft Projects---I needed this and that......and I ended up buying more supplies. My "Craft Corral and Chit Chat" monthly thing worked well for about 2 years. Then, people were moving, or doing other things---and I decided to stop it.
I would plan my Craft gathering--and 4-5 people would sign up. Oh--Goody!
I would then get together whatever supplies I needed--plan on refreshments and we also, usually, had wine.....
I would set up "stations" for ach person--with glue guns and whatever else was needed.

THEN---on the day before--people would call and say they cannot make it! HOW DARE THEY!!!!
Often, I was left with ONLY one person willing to attend--and then i would cancel it.

Just had enough of all this--so I decided to cancel the WHOLE "Program".....THERE!

Of course--I now had more craft supplies than I had ever had before.

MY DREAM IS TO--------some day (????) finish all my original craft prijects just to use up al the supplies I have----
all over everywhere. No one else will know what they are for or how to use them. Most of these I created out of my own ingenuity....and they are wonderful!
IF I had an outlet to sell my little, cute craft items--it would give me incentive to work on them--but I do not, because I have not really searched--signed up--decided to actually DO THEM--or all those other kind of excuses.

The years are now crowding my conscience. I am feeling some signs of mortality--and I also DO NOT wish to leave this cluttered up house for my daughtere to have to deal with once I have died. That is a HUGE burden to leave to your children!!!!! And--I am SOOOOOO aware of it!!!!

Ahem----I have to say that, IF I did not spend hours--every day--on DG, I might get some of these projects done.
SEE! It is ALL DG's fault!!!!

I will now leave you all--and wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day tomorrow with your Families and Loved ones.

I am invited to a girl-friend's house (OH! What a house that is--and what an amazing hostess she is!!!!).
I am bringing the Stuffing and my Cranberry Sauce and a bottle of Wine.

She is a crafter like many of us and she asked me if I would like to spend the night and then--on Friday--we will be making candles out of remnants of old ones--or make new ones. She, obviously, has this ALL figured out!
I am SO looking forward to al this--or I would be sitting home alone with nowhere to go!

Goobble--Goobble to you all!
Remember when I made this (in 2007) at my Craft get-Together?????
If not--it was a very complicated craft project--as I had to come up with all the "How-to" all myself. How to do the head. How to do the body. How to do the wings and the legs (UGH!).....But it all came together--and everyone attending went home with their own version of this Turkey.

Gita