What happened to real crafts?????????

For the past few days I have been under the weather and was unable to go to our towns fair. A friend of ours went to check out the craft show and gave us a full report. He cracks me up I don't think he realized how much I needed his humor. Anyway he was telling us that there were hardly any craft booths and the ones that were there pretty much stunk. Although he did say that there was one with homemade baby clothes, I think that is pretty neat but my boys are grown. Now for the part that really made me laugh. He said someone was selling "marshmallow shooters". So naturally I had to ask what on earth that was. It was just cut pvc pipes, I guess you are supposed to put miniature marshmallows in one end and blow them out the other. Why would someone try to sell cut pvc pipe which you can buy at a hardware store probably cheaper and call that a craft........Come on people get creative! Thats worse then putting mini marshmallows in a baggie and calling it snowman poop.......

I get so frustrated with so called crafts. When I was younger we did craft shows. My dad does wood working he is just awesome, my mom is a florist and a damn good one at that. I can say she is a florist because she went to school for at as well as has her degree. She is not some fly by night Martha Stewart wanna be sorry another one that gets me........Mom and I can both paint, I do needlework and we also had cloth dolls that were just too cute for words.

There is still so much I want to learn, I have been reading on how to make braided rag rugs, I want to do some in denim as we are well stocked in old jeans I thought they looked pretty darn cool. I would love to try my hand at making jewelry, I cannot find much in necklaces and earrings anymore that I like. It's always the same stuff.......I want to get into woodworking, I already know what my first project will be well actually a couple of projects. I want to make a cold frame for my plants I am going to use a screen window instead of door and replace the glass with plexi glass. I thought the screen window would work out better and wouldn't be so heavy. I also found instructions for this really kick butt picket fence planter I want to make a couple of those as well.........

I guess for the most part I miss seeing people who love what they do, and their creativity.