MSE Crafty people - Who are you and what do you do!

mrsproudmum

:T :rotfl: Hello i am an imposter because apart from a flannel cupcake i have made nothing yet :rotfl:

I am michelle from Cheshire

i am 41 but young at heart

Have a lovely other half who works hard as a cableguy/sky fitter :eek:

have two lovely not so lovely this week teenage boys eldest will have me in a straight jacket this holidays i think:rotfl:

I have 3 step daughters and 5 step granchildren.

we have our gorgeous springer spanial who is baby number 3

I don't can't work due to health reasons and being a mother so life on forums is very important to me , especially living with 3 smelly men as i need women to chat to :j

i am an insomniac so you will find me up and about till around 3/4 am :eek:

you won't find me about at 7am :rotfl:

i have a emoticon fettish and use too many has been said elsewhere:p

I have a very creative imagination and as i was a hairdresser can be quite handy with the old hands but have a small home and little space to store /do things i would like to try.

I used to be very crafty in my 20's before children but alas thing's changed

I cannot really afford to but i may start collecting some craft stuff and try very hard to be creative this year and next.

i have a brand new 15 years ago sewing machine in the loft that needs getting out and has been used about twice i would love to attempt the handbag wrap i saw in a post.:T

i would love to have the knowlegde and patience to knit/crochet but i have neither now my Nan's are sadly gone whom used to teach me stuff when i was young.:A

I talk to much! oh and aparently i draw fantastic diagrams !!:rotfl:

Hello everyone :beer:

Siren137

Hi All!

I'm Bekki and I seem to be the baby of the group at 20.

I've always been really crafty and thankfully grew up in a house that was being renovated so I could make as much mess as I wanted whether it was baking bread hedgehogs with my mum or making pictures in left over cement with my dad.
I've just spend my first year in my own place living my boyfriend (although I don't think he will be much longer after the flannel cupcake incident :rotfl: )
I believe I've become even more crafty as now I have the room to make everything.
I started out making cards and doing a little scrap booking. This has grown into all sorts including hampers, sock monkeys, those evil flannel cupcakes, candle making and I just recently finished my first ever cross stitch which has me totally hooked and I'm on the look out for more!

This Christmas I hope to make as many pressie as possible including chocolate slabs, smellies, fleece blankets, flannel yule logs, french memo boards and flavoured vodka!!


I think this thread was a great idea. Its so nice to hear about everybody!! :hello:

Sujamjen

Hi there

I'm Shirley, 54 and mum to 3 grown ups and work part time.

My craft hobbies are card making, cross stitch, baking,sewing and crocheting. My current obsession is shoulder bag making (see link for details)

- http://tinyhappy.typepad.com/tiny_happy/2006/06/shoulder_bag_tu.html

and my last obsession was making summer dresses because I couldn't find any in the shops that I liked! I'm about to start cards making again ready for (whisper it, Xmas:p )

I can't bear to just sit, so am always either crafting or reading:D

I don't know where I got the craft bug from, my nan did embroderie I've been told but no one else in the family is crafty at all!

Great to hear about everyone:beer:

vicks276

Hey all

I'm Vicki, 25 from Stockport in Cheshire. I live with my boyfriend, no kids, no pets, and I work from home.
I used to make cards, but that gave way to jewellery making after I was introduced to it by a friend. Want to get into doing more craft fairs etc but not many in this neck of the woods.

Nice to meet you all!!

Vicks xx

mrsproudmum

Sujamjen wrote: »

Hi there

I'm Shirley, 54 and mum to 3 grown ups and work part time.

My craft hobbies are card making, cross stitch, baking,sewing and crocheting. My current obsession is shoulder bag making (see link for details)

- http://tinyhappy.typepad.com/tiny_happy/2006/06/shoulder_bag_tu.html

and my last obsession was making summer dresses because I couldn't find any in the shops that I liked! I'm about to start cards making again ready for (whisper it, Xmas:p )

I can't bear to just sit, so am always either crafting or reading:D

I don't know where I got the craft bug from, my nan did embroderie I've been told but no one else in the family is crafty at all!

Great to hear about everyone:beer:

OMG i love your bag instructions , i so need my sewing machine out of the loft , but the other half say's ''loft'' is a swear word as he has to attempt going up there :rotfl: :eek:

RustyFlange

This sounds like an alcohol anonymous thread! lol

Hi all ... My name is Tams and I'm a MSE craftyaholic!


Hey we should have a craftyaholic members list! Can I be number 1 lol

melissa75_2

Okay, so my name is Melissa, no surprise there. I am 33 and live in Liverpool, (originally from Leicestershire). I have two sons aged 6 and 4 (a right handful), and a toy boy other half (five years younger than me), who is always moaning about my craft stuff taking over the house, (we only live in a small terrace).
I started crafting years ago, doing cross stitch, then swapped about four years ago to card making. I have just got back into cross stitching after reading the post on here and remembering how much I used to enjoy it. I have just started scrapbooking, and would like to get into altered art.
I would like to make a little money from my hobbies, but alas no luck so far, but fingers crossed.
I love the crafty threads on here, as I said I live in a house of men - mess everywhere, fouls smells, strange stains, so its really nice to come on here and have a chat to some like minded women. I don't have many friends either (I have lived up here for about four years now - I know I'm sad), so I love chatting to you all and hearing what you have been up to.

amyandoli

I'm a sporadic poster too

Amy, 25, housewife, no kids.
Crewe/Newcastle-under-Lyme on the Cheshire/Staffs/Shrops border.

I'm a jack of all trades craft wise- jewellry making, wire shaping, cards, papercrafts (decoupage, papermache, paper weaving...), cosmetics, candles, painting (mainly oils and acrylics but have a stash of over mediums), altered art, reconstructing clothes and soft furnishings, willow weaving, knitting, hand sewing, machine sewing (mainly bags and soft furnishings), free hand machine embroidery, learning to embroider and as soon as someone mentions something else I'll have a go at that too I was going to say I need a job but I've just been asked to supply a friends new craft website, so if all goes well I've got one

melissa75_2

Oooh, Amyandoli - that sounds really promising - good luck! Sounds like I could learn a lot from you re altered art. I have dabbled at making my own bath products, but the bath bombs made me cross - they got stuck in the mould. I had to put the whole thing including the mould in the bath.

Shellybee

Lovely to meet all of you

I'm Shelly, I'm 29 (for only 2 more months:eek: ) Live in N.Ireland and I am a Stay home mum to DS1 (6) and DS2 (4)

Love all things arts and crafts and if I had more time would love to try some new things from here.

I mainly do my own cards & scrapbooking.
Have just ordered some cellophane and bows off ebay to make up my first 2 hampers for birthdays next month, i'm very excited, sad i know :rotfl:

What else?? ummm I love cooking pretty carp at it but I love trying ha!

Also would love for OH to buy me a sewing machine for my 30th so i could try my hand at my own vintage cushions and stuff. (omg a sewing machine for my 30th.....sounds really bad:o )

Anyways, i haven't managed to look at posting pics up here but i am in the process of my first card challenge so will get it finished tomorrow and try to post a pic.

Shelly x:j