I love all my crafts, and boy, I have more than a few. Not by way of bragging, but I swear I do more types of crafts than you can shake a stick at. I knit, crochet, sew (clothes, furnishings, dolls, animals, quilts), make stained glass, jewellery, do acrylic and watercolour painting, cross stitch, scrapbooking, photography, gardening and cake decorating. I have a room all to myself to do all this stuff in and I have all the tools and equipment to do them. The best thing about doing so many crafts is that there is so much cross pollination between them, but it leaves my projects somewhat schizophrenic.
Its really hard to stay on task when you're doing one project and you want to do seven or eight other things. Never mind housework. When we were doing our renovation I didn't get to do any crafts, that's when I worked on learning construction, tile laying (in which I used some of my stained glass know how to create some neat tile effects), plumbing (soldering with an iron and soldering with a torch are very similar) and the operation of many very scary power tools.
It was a real challenge getting all the house stuff done and keeping a family with 2 small children
on track. I am very proud of the fact that we redid our whole house while living in it the whole time. We even redid the entire kitchen and never had to be out of it for so much as a day.
I think that what I should do is share some of the things I've learned with other people. Maybe something I've done could help you.
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