What crafting is to us.

Patricia and I love to craft!

We love how we can take a material and give it life. Watch it grow and take shape (not always the shape we want or the shape that we started with in our minds). We've even managed to get our entire families into crafting. The men have an excuse to hang out in "Man Land" together playing ladder ball and razzing each other along with us from time to time. The two younger boys love when we make rugs because they get to help tear the strips and laugh. My thirteen year old loves to hover over our shoulders and tell us what is cool and what isn't (we are so not cool-Patricia) . She is always reminding us how goofy we are until the project is done and she thinks it is COOL. Over the summer the "tween" started sewing and is making her own version of Patricia's T-shirt bag. We hang out in my garage because we have a fenced in front yard so the little ones can't escape.





For Patricia and I crafting is like a girls day at the spa. We laugh, eat good food, relax, harass the older boys, and walk away with a new source of energy. Therapy!



Deidre




Oh wow that sounds so dreamy! Can I come? Wait, I'm the other half of that duo. What Deidre isn't telling you is this... We have to use her yard because my yard consists of a spit of grass, I checked, it is grass and not a weed. The fenced in part to keep the boys from escaping is so true, what she didn't mention is that the little nippers (one 5 and one 6) are escape artists and that not only does the fence contain the little boys, it contains the big boys (the big boys, meaning our husbands and my 23-year-old nephew).


But seriously WE ALL have the best time. The men get the front part of the yard and the drive way as "Man Land". And, we get the garage. Which means we have control of the tunes and they are suppose to be in charge of the kids. Reality Check: we do get control of the tunes but, they most definitely are not in charge of the kids!





Still it works, we all have fun and there's always lots of LOLing.





Keep an eye out maybe we can get the guys to share their Ladder Balls rules and directions for making a set!





Patricia