Welcome to my new website and shiny new blog. I’m hoping this will become a place to share with you new projects that I’m working on, as well as thoughts on things in the title of this blog–design, life and making stuff. I’m not really into New Year’s Resolutions, so let’s just say that one of my goals for 2012 is to make more stuff. After becoming a crafting maniac for the wedding back in October (and oddly enjoying it…what does that say about me?), I realized what was missing from my life: making stuff. So again before Christmas I started making gifts for friends and family.
I find that making things is a real stress reliever for me, in addition to the satisfaction I get from being able to point to something and say, “I made that.” I also like being able to handcraft things I need or want instead of feeding into our mass-produced consumer culture. It felt good to give gifts that had been crafted out of reused materials from Ben’s house or the newly-opened Resource Exchange, and it was gratifying to see people’s positive responses to receiving these gifts (either that or they were just being nice). It seems like the handmade/crafting movement has really been taking off in recent years, so what I’m doing isn’t really anything new, but hopefully it will be a little inspiring to whomever happens to wander by this blog.
I’m looking forward to getting going. I hope you’ll join me on the journey.
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