I'd only completed a few cards last year [end of September] when the first 'prospective' customer saw them. We'd had our caravan 4 years and had got to know just about everyone on our site [OK, Caravan Park if we're being posh]. The conversation had started on the sea-front by us 'ladies' discussing what we did on rainy days; which we had in abundance and was the very reason I started decoupaging in the first place.
Let's face it, what do you do when it's bucketing down? you're in a glorified tin shack in the middle of an old turnip field surrounded by other tin shacks [some positively of the hut standard & others a bit more upmarket]. Also when it rains we end up with our personal moats & not everyone can say they've got their own moat!
OK, picture it, I've done all the logical, sudoku & kakuro puzzles my brain can cope with, I've read every book twice. The television, for some bizarre reason only gets the horse racing channel in the daytime [I think that's more to do with someone else hanging on to the remote control than any actual fault].
The games on my laptop have started to bore me, I've got no t'Internet or rather I'm not paying the extortionate prices 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' wants to charge for her 'hotspot'. I've cleaned everything & rearranged the cupboards [now that alone shows true desperation, anyone who knows me knows my aversion to housework].
Anyway, it must have been between races 3 years ago that I found the tv remote stuffed behind a cushion [I was straightening it, see last paragraph] while his lordship had gone to the throne room, hmm methinks, what's on the other channels? I know of some that sell jewellery [also a passion of mine or would be if I were as rich as I was meant to be] then from there I flicked up one number.
Ooooh, I like that, wonder what it's called? it looks easy. Yes, they were decoupaging & I was so fascinated that I took the details of the website & ordered a kit as soon as we went home. Obviously the actual decoupage sheets [Christmas] that I wanted had sold out but I bought some others plus a few other bits of essential paraphernalia & so a 'Craft Goddess' [me ... yes ME!] was born.
Now I have a room that you can only walk sideways through as it's full of craft stuff ... and I'm keeping it all, I've got bulging files of different coloured card for matting & layering, in fact silver & gold have got a file each but I'm not using them, oh no, I've got other colour coordinated files with scraps in & I must use them first before I go into my stash of pristine cards, oh & papers; same problem, you can't waste them so I hoard them in a proper miserly fashion.
I have since discovered that this is normal crafting behaviour & I'm not about to change now...
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