Crafting is Harrrrrrrrrd: Supplies Are Everywhere.

(tattoos are a good way to alert people to your craftiness....)

Crafting is harrrrrrrrrrrrd, on the crafter yes, but most especially on the non-crafty people around them. See examples below:

"Oh a rock, a smooooth rock! A smooooth rock with a faint sparkle in it?! I could paint a bee on it!"
"Uh huh, yes dear. Neat idea."
"Ohhhhhhhh a branch! Do you know they CHARGE for branches some places?"
"Really?"
"Oh my gawwwd yes, and here's a perfectly nice branch just laying there on the ground."
"Disney Land's ground...."
"It's still ground. Oh the things I could do with a branch like that."
"What? What can you do with a branch like that?"
"Look, I hear your skepticism but it would look lovely in a jar. A very rustic arrangement, tres chic you know. Well rustic chic, don't ya think?"
"Would this be the same jar you asked for from our hostess at the meal we were invited to, once as I recall, it was only once they invited us wasn't it?"
"Ummm, yes I believe you're right. Hmmm, that is a nice jar."
"Yes, so you said. Something about the shape, and how she didn't need to wash the dip out of the jar, that you could do it at home." Sighs... " They were nice people."
"Hmmm? What? Hmm yes I suppose but you know...... I really don't think that's the jar for this branch. Too short, the jar I mean. Perhaps I could create a natural sort of collage on the side table, I could put the rock beside it."
"There's already a pile of rocks on the side table."
"Oh shoot you're right. LOOK! Holy fricking heck, look at that!!!!!"
"What? What's wrong?"
"Some one just threw that bouquet of flowers in the trash!"
"Yeah. They're all wilted see."
"Well duh, I have eyes. Perfectly fine wilted flowers. I could do a lot with wilted flowers."
"You're not God dear. Those things quit taking water a lonnng time ago."
"EXACTLY!"
"What? Exactly what? Do I keep holding this stick, and rock?"
"Oh yes, I'll put them in the trunk."
"There's a big metal lamp in there we took from the neighbor's garbage. Remember? I don't think the stick will fit."
"Branch dear, it's a branch. I'll put it in the back seat, but the flowers.... More water isn't what they need, it's LESS. I'll press them. I'll put them between the pages of all those phone books I've been saving. You know those phone books I've been collecting since 2002? Well they'll be just the thing for pressing and drying flowers."
"So, the flowers come home too?"
"Yes, lay them on the flyers. Gennnnnttttlly, I don't want all the petals to fall off....though......"
Heavier sigh..."Though what? More potpourri?"
"Well you can never have enough, you know they actually-
"Charge for potpourri at the stores. I remember. It was my orange you took and sliced up before I finished eating it. Remember? You dried that too."
"Looks gorgeous too doesn't it? All that rustic gorgeousness."
"I was eating that orange..."
"Just put them on the flyers."
"Remind me to throw those in the recycling bin when we get home. There's gotta be a law against that much paper in the back seat of a car in California, in the summer time anyways. Fire hazard if you ask me."
"You can't throw those out!!!"
"I'll recycle."
"No, I mean I'm saving those! Savvvvvvvving them."
"For what?????? Honey those sales ended 5 months ago. Hell I think this one is for a store that's been closed down for at least 3 weeks."
"I don't care about that, it's for a craft project. Paper Mache."
"I worry when you say things like that...."
"Like what dear? How do I say.....papier mache.....?"
"Your voice gets all breathy and your eyes glaze over, and you start talking with a french accent. It's unnerving."
"Hmm? Sweetie paper mache isn't unnerving, it's ART! The ultimate art. Making something from nothing, less THAN nothing, from trash it's...........it's...mmmmmm. It's verrrrrrry satisfying."
"Ummm....people are staring. Lets just load the car and go home. I'll drive, can I have the keys please?"
"Lets see, they're in my pocket, no...wait, haha would you look at that?"
"That's a bottle cap, not the car keys."
"I knoooow what it IS, it's a FLAT bottle cap. I might make a necklace, something...now where are those keys? Here's a rubber band I found on the floor."
"The grocery store floor wasn't it? I wish you wouldn't do that. It seems too much like...well...stealing. If you take something out of a store and didn't pay for it......."
"Relax, it's a rubber band, it's not like I ripped open a package and helped myself. Besides it was ON the floor."
Sigggggggggghs...."Yes, the floor, a lot like the ground, anything on there is free by your standards....what's this? This isn't the car keys."
"It's a shiny candy wrapper. Do you know that's been through the wash 7 times at least. I'm going to make a flower out of it, or a christmas ornament. I havn't decided yet. Water doesn't seem to have hurted it any though, looks shinier if you ask me!"
"I'm not. Keys?"
"Here, they're here. I didn't lose them. They got tangled up with this bracelet. The clasp is broken and one of the links, see? It caught on the key ring."
"Where'd you get that?"
"I found it when we were at the hardware store."
Siggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs. "Some one might be looking for it."
"Well it's broken! I'm sure no one's looking for it, and look it's mashed a bit from tires and plus I found it. It was-
"On the ground?"
"YES! Exactly. I'm going to use it on that sculpture I'm making."
"Oh. Well ok. The one made with all the sour cream containers?"
"Noooo, God it wouldn't go with that at all. No I mean the other one, the one made with last years wrapping paper from Christmas. Here's the keys. We should get home. I've got a lot of crafting to do."

(This is an exaggeration. Not the craft supplies part, Lord no...that's all true, I have a house full of rocks, a cupboard full of sourcream containers and several dozen liberated tree branches to prove it. No the exaggerated part is the male, mine isn't like that at all. My male is right there with me cramming things in the trunk of our sweet little Civic to take home and craft with. Mine figured out he can drive the car home from a video shoot with one arm out the window to hold the palm branch that was too long to stuff inside the car.... he understood you see...you don't BREAK a branch like that. No siree, a long palm branch is as good as gold to a crafter.)