Recently, my mom and I had a frank discussion about our crafting abilities. We came to the very difficult realization that we are not as crafty as we wish we were. We have crafty friends and crafty relatives, but somehow, the "Memere gene" skipped us over. This realization was a long time coming. Over the years, we've spent hundreds - possibly thousands - of dollars on magazines and books, on equipment, materials and supplies to make everything from jewelry to quilts, and it's been wasted for the most part. We could have purchased a lot of wine and left our lofty dreams of homemade Christmas cards and hand-stitched birthday gifts behind.
My mom and I apparently lack the Memere gene, and yet when we see a crafty project, we think, "oh, I can do that!" For the most part, we are wrong. And even though we've proven it time and time again, we're giving it one more shot.
We're going to find out if we can, actually, do that. We've each chosen a handful of craft projects that we believe we have the capacity to complete and we're going to try them out, together.
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