"Craft Time"

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." -- Carl Jung

Today I spent way too much time at Michael's not finding what I was initially looking for and ending up looking around for something to find. What I found...

Frame, adhesive backed felt, and patterned paper.

What I made to make my house even more of my home...

On the door to my bedroom, my space, just for me, a place of rest, a place of calm, mine.

It all began with a nail in the door, lonely, wanting to be useful. I couldn't find anything for the longest time, knowing I wanted a decorative 'J'. Then Michael's, a crafty person's heaven, inspired me to create what I wanted when it couldn't be bought. Trying to add a personal touch by purchasing something prefabricated really seems like an oxymoron. To add a personal touch, make it personal.

A pretty cool lesson within something so seemingly mundane. A reminder of how we all too often just buy what is on display for us, what's easy, what someone else created. A task that doesn't make us think, we just do. This can be seen in little things and in critical things.

It reminds me of Fahrenheit 451...

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs of the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving."

I want to move. I always want to move.