If you're crafty, what's your craft of choice and why?

[Anonymous]

Ceramics. Pottery is functional art!

[Anonymous]

Started ceramics last year (I’m 54yo today). My wheel work has gotten a lot better, but I’m still far away from Florian Gadsby or similar. I love working toward consistency, making my own glazes and discovering the quirks of different types of clay.

I also knit. I love the challenge of designing my own sweaters. DH is usually the beneficiary of my efforts. I measure every few inches and use swatches to figure out how much I need to increase/decrease, and just keep going until I’m done.

[Anonymous]

Cross stitch and embroidery. Don't laugh, but I also have a dollhouse that I built when the kids were little and that I add to and redecorate every so often.

[Anonymous]

Greeting cards. Simple and inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

Those who make your own cards, what is your process? Draw, watercolor, pastels? What do you write, if anything? Do you use cursive? I might’ve found a new hobby 😊

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I studied to become a silversmith and I now have a nice jewelry business. I started this when I retired because I wanted to something creative. It’s been a great way to meet people because my customers are mostly my age.

Glass artist here. I took some really basic classes and I felt like it was going to take up a lot of space. Does it? Glass does for me and I doubt my family is willing to give me more than I already have. I think these two arts would make for some amazing pieces.

[Anonymous]

Anyone heard about postcrossing?
It is sending post cards to random people around the world and receiving them too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cross stitch and embroidery. Don't laugh, but I also have a dollhouse that I built when the kids were little and that I add to and redecorate every so often.

I have a beat up wood dollhouse in the attic I've been waiting until retirement to take on. Years and years ago I had an insurance job that had me on the road. Once I ended up at a client's house. she was not home but her husband was. Ended up spending an hour getting a tour of her dollhouses. I think she made money off of them as a side thing, but it was really a passion, and they were amazing. Some were full-blown victorian houses, some were little items--one was named "Annie's Closet" and it was literally a little closet with all kinds of odd random stuff spilling out of it, some were Halloween or Christmas themed. Little touches like in the biggest Victorian dollhouse there was a bowl of cookie dough on the table and a half filled cookie sheet, towel draped over a chair.

I made dollhouses using cardboard boxes and making furniture out of empty thread spools and whatnot as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those who make your own cards, what is your process? Draw, watercolor, pastels? What do you write, if anything? Do you use cursive? I might’ve found a new hobby 😊

I have done watercolor but it takes too long to look good. Regular cardstock paper also isn’t good for watercolors, you need watercolor paper.
Mine are probably similar to stamping up style. Stamps, washi tape, different color or patterned cardstock cut out,

[Anonymous]

I love this thread!
Years ago I had a boy friend whose retired parents had bonsai trees all over the backyard and in the house
They would occasionally sell them at craft fairs and it supplemented their income nicely