I have really been craving the idea of making fancy crafts for a while now. I have a couple of handmade quilts and a couple of homemade jewelry boxes that I would love to try if I could find the time. This summer I have been meaning to make a few other things to try, but this project is just too cool not to try.
My friend and fellow art lover, Melissa, is now taking classes to learn to make her own jewelry boxes, so I bet she could use some tips on how to make them. I bet she could also find and order some gorgeous quilts and other crafts, too. Now that I think about it, I could probably even make something really cool and intricate out of some of those.
Not to mention I am now working on a “craft fancy” project that includes a box of my favorite things (and some others) and a kit of some of my favorite things. Like anything that involves cutting and bending and turning and gluing and threading, the more you do it the more you discover and create with it. To quote a famous writer from my youth, “all good things must come to an end.
For us crafty folks, this means the end of the day and the end of the weekend. It may be the last day of school or the last weekend of the summer, but for crafts we all need to take a break. That can be a good thing too, because when we are not working, we are not thinking very hard.
The internet and the internet-connected devices we have access to all give us lots of time to sit and think. The time when we create and create and create. So when we are not working, we are not thinking very hard. That means we are not creative. When we are not thinking, we are not creative. When we are not creative, we are not creative. When we are not creative, we are not creative. When we are not creative, we are not creative.
So, when we’re not thinking, we are not creative. We are not creative, and that’s bad. You know that saying about the devil in the details? There is a lot of good in a world where you’re not thinking. But that world is not for everyone, and being able to work on something that is not thinking, that’s a skill.
I like the metaphor of the devil in the details. It’s a bit vague, but its a good one. I’m reminded of the time I was in a band and we were all playing one of our songs in the studio. And one of the guys started singing it, and it didn’t sound right, so I said, “ok, guys, let’s take a quick break.
That was back in the days before the internet. It was difficult to find out what someone was singing. And the guitar player had just picked a song that sounded terrible. But I had a friend in the band who had a guitar, and he was able to play it perfectly, and so we were able to learn more about the song the next time we played it.
It sounds like you were just playing all this stuff by ear, which would make sense. But, being an engineer, I can tell you that when you tune your guitar or a keyboard, it’s like you’re playing the song with the notes. Like you’re actually playing it.
You can hear that exact same thing happening when you play music or a piano. In fact, it’s similar to how a song or piece of instrumentation sounds when it’s played by a guitarist. Like your ears are playing the notes, but you’re actually hearing them with your brain’s physical and auditory system.