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When it comes time for that big homemaking craft night, count me out. It seems like everything there is just one style of decoration! While I appreciate that other people have talent in this area, I am just not one of them and the raffia accented decor does not fit in my home. My husband would come home and think I'd been possessed if one of the following appeared hanging from my door.
I say, why use raffia when you can use glitter? Glitter and raffia don't seem to go together very well. If your project would look alright nestled in some strawlike material, I don't want to pay $8 to make it. If it has glittery pizazz, maybe I'll give it a shot.
Like these pumpkins, for example. I would happily make these.
Or this tree. It's glittery.
I live in a Raffia Free Zone. It's sparkly here.
19 comments:
Enough already, I read your blog everyday, or at least as often as you post, and am sick and tired of the extra click to get to your through Paige or Celia. This is your notice that you are now officially linked to me.
(Now I'm all paranoid about my ubiquitous commenting...thanks Celia.)
I've got a pumpkin with raffia on my door right now BUT ONLY BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER MADE ME and I am too controlling about her life and so I decided to let her have some say. Okay?!
Jess, I don't think you have ubiquitous commenting. I think you have good commenting and I am impressed that you can keep up AND make coherent comments and I think you are the best in the whole wide world and never quit I love you.
Oh, and Nor, way to turn the Raffia Hate into something positive.
I am the anti-craft. They've uninvited me to HFPE because all I have to offer is hilarious commentary.
Hi - Notorious. I'm at the blog and am just wondering what is wrapped around your eyes? Did you steal that from a Bratz doll?
As for the craft - why bother crafting???The Chinese are pumping the stuff out already made at a fraction of the cost. Choice is: you can make the scarecrow for $10 or buy him already made for $4 from a discount store. I pick the ready made one...
I despise crafts. I'd much rather spend a fortune on something than 5 dollars and make it myself.
Yes, I hear you on those raffia craps oops I mean crafts. Never been a fan of the homemade wood painting projects. but the sparkly pumpkins might interst me.
Let this be a sign, my friend, that you are not in the right ward. When you find a place to settle more permanently, make sure you find a ward that doesn't have crafts at Relief Society. Believe me, there are wards out there (mine included) that lay off the crafts and hit the books or something else much more stimulating! (I must confess however, that I have been known to dabble in the crafty area but I have gotten over that...well, mostly. I am a secret member of scrapbookers anonymous and, hold onto your hat, I have recently learned to quilt. GASP!!!!)
Quilting is a respectable hobby, as is sewing.
Intresting that you bring up sewing. Tab made me swear we'd start a sewing club if i move to Utah. I think it's becoming a lost art. How many of our mom's can sew (all of them) and how many of us can? Like two?
I support knowing how to make stuff. Useful stuff, like your own table or curtains. No room for rafia in my world eiter!
Our Relief Society does not do "Crafts" anymore. I feel gipped, even if I am over the whole raffia thing! I want crafts!!!
I would love to see your decorating style. Would you please post pictures? I am always intrigued by people's homes. I think they say a lot about a person. And I think no rafia says very good things!
If I'm at my Mom's group and they announce that they are going to do a craft, I quickly plan my exit strategy - I'm not a crafty gal and proud of it.
I wonder what the male equivalent of "crafts" is? And I wonder if men everywhere dread when it is announced and try to escape.
I have raffia and it's cute. Now plastic is another story...
Crafts, are a no,no for me. In fact my husband asked me while we were dating if I was a crafty person because he was not going to hang things from homemaking in his house. Lucky for him I don't do crafts...
Nor, you've always been a glittery, glitzy type, haven't you? Love it! And Ellie, I understand the "hilarious commentary". I don't do it much at HFPE, cause I'm usually not there. If I am at YW on Wed, sometimes can't bring myself there. Well, often. But I do my own little commentary at showers, bridal and baby.
I'm more of a glitter person as well. Perhaps you should invest in a beadazzler? :)
Amen my sista! Unfortunately, I'm in a branch that still loves all that crafty stuff. So guess where I DON'T go when it's Enrichment Night? My unofficial job in my other wards was to provide commentary, but for some reason in the Spanish Branch either my A. Spanish joking skills get lost in translation or B. The cultural nuances of "American/U.S. humor" and Hispanic/Latin humor are way too different so my gringa humor is not fully appreciated and embraced.
The only thing I don't love about SUPER SATURDAY crafts is that you have the same decorating stuff as everyone else. When you go Visiting Teaching, you just see how much cuter it looks at someone elses house. I think they should do ward swaps and you go to someone elses ward for crafting--preferrably (sp?) in another state. I know I am up for a road trip.
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