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Hi there!

There aren't many crafts I haven't had a go at, but when it comes to knitting I'm positively rubbish. I wish I could because I would knit myself all kinds of things but there's just something about me and knitting needles that aren't friends. I can crochet but just don't have the patience for it.
Mostly my crafting these days (a term I use loosely given how little I've done) is cross stitch, beaded jewellery and cardmaking. I have more unused jewellery and cards than anyone should ever have, and never got around to selling any of it. I also had a few little wooden kits for things like storage boxes to paint up and cover with scrapbooking papers. I only ever finished one.
I've also dabbled in washipaper ceramic decoupage but it's hard to find plaster or white ceramic figures/ornaments. I've done a seahorse, some cute little unicorns and a set of three Christmas papered reindeer. Once they're lacquered they're quite beautiful. If I could find bauble shaped ones I'd go to town.
Crafting has been with me since I was a kid because I had to spend long days amusing myself in the tea room at my parents business all weekends of the year. Mum took me to my first craft show when I was about ten and we did that every year for about twenty years, always buying more and more stuff. She was, and still is, a knitter, and handmade all my school concert costumes including all the handstitched beadwork (which must have taken her bloody ages!). Knitting was not genetically passed on, but mum always says cross stitch is too hard for her, so I guess that makes us even. When I was little she used to make tissue box covers out of cardboard and cover them in fabric, lace and fabric flowers but no one really bought them when she had a market stall. We still have them on all our tissue boxes around the house, and some she made in more recent years that were mdf boxes painted and using wallpaper strips.
In short, there's not much we won't have a go at.