Alyice on March 27th, 2008

The Craft Phase

I must admit that the craft phase was probably the most enjoyable artistic endeavor. I wasn’t creating to escape my life, to run away from emotional baggage, or to “find myself”. There weren’t life altering decisions being made and the time we spent crafting wasn’t reflective of my life: past or present. No, our craft time was simply a fun way to bond with my kids.

It seemed that through our crafting projects we grew closer. We talked obsessively about any and everything. We laughed a lot more than usual. We got excited over the simplest of things. And we learned very valuable lessons about “not touching” hot glue guns!

There was even a year when we’d go out to restaurants just to eat muscles and clams. You see every year we made Christmas ornaments and that year we decided to use shells as our main material. You should have seen the puzzled looks on our waiters’ faces. The kids, of course, couldn’t wait to tell them all about the Christmas ornaments they were going to make with them. We even had one waitress ask us to return with an ornament for her tree and one for the restaurant.

It’s been a few years now since my kids and I crafted together and I miss it tremendously. But they’re teenagers now and craft projects just don’t interest them—no matter how much I bribe them!

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