Craft Addict?



Calling all Craft Addicts and members of Craftaholics Anonymous. Hello and welcome to the GetCrafty Blog at the Daily Echo. Oh I know, you’re not really interested, just passing by. Thought you’d take a look. Admitting it to yourself is always the hardest part, so let me help you. Just take a look at the following questions:

1) Have you or any members of your family had to eat dinner off your lap because the dining table is otherwise engaged?

2) Do you come over all peculiar when in the vicinity of 12” x 12” papers, glitter glue or die-cuts?

3) Are you regularly harassed by family and friends requiring a special card in time for yesterday?

4) Do you know who Dawn Bibby is?

5) Are you still here, nodding your head and feeling full of hope in the realisation you are not alone? (Incidentally, if you answered ‘no’ to all of the above then my advice would be to leave now before it’s too late!)

You know, I actually haven’t seen my dining table for about two years and I have also lost a bedroom to my craft addiction; shelves burgeoning under the weight of cards, papers, boxes of embellishments, die-cutting equipment and various other ‘must haves’ and ‘can’t live withouts’. In order to appease other half who lived in constant fear of being stamped, glued or glittered if he sat still for too long, I was under orders to either give it up or turn my addiction into a small business. Well of course, giving up wasn’t an option. A week without a craft fix – you are of course joking! I’d rather give up chocolate, cheese, caffeine and shoes and run naked across Southampton Common than hand over my eyelet setter and brad collection as I passed through the doors to the Crafters Rehabilitation Unit. And so GetCrafty was born, a small but beautiful website from where I deal my wares… and of course the perfect guise for my addiction. You can drop by at www.getcrafty.co.uk to take a peek and maybe get some inspiration from our projects. GetCrafty has proven a wonderful way to meet like-minded addicts and swap tips, share ideas and generally have a good time doing what I love.

This GetCrafty blog will hopefully reach out and find those of you who are still hiding your creative light under the dining room table and secretly panicking because you aren’t quite sure how to stick your vellum to your mulberry paper or need someone to let you into the secrets of scrapbooking. A little diary of sorts from a fully-fledged addict who may be able to help or at least point you in the right direction. From a slightly more self indulgent perspective it also gives me yet another crafty avenue to wander down in the hope of find like minded souls, who, in the wee small hours are waiting for the glue to dry so they too can get just one more card finished before bedtime.