Have you always been a crafter?

I have always been a gatherer of memories; a collector. I have had scrapbooks of memorabilia, and post card collections and photo albums since I was a child. As I go back and try to scrap old memories I have this treasure trove of saved stuff. One of my earliest collections was napkins and placemats from restaurants and venues and I use them now in my scrapbooks.

I have always liked making things, but my early stuff was making things out of nothing, like paper dolls out of old catalogs and doll houses out of cardboard boxes. As a child I liked to draw and write poems.

I still like to do folk art painting and make doll pins in historical costumes. I used to spin cotton, wool and linen for awhile but never really mastered it. Did a bit of quilting. But I am not good with anything that requires precision. I have to be able to go with the flow, make what I see in my head and I have no patience for lengthy projects. I like immediate gratification!

Yes, I have always been a crafter. Even as a kid.

I didn't find scrapbooking until after my daughter died in 2005 - but when I did find it, I was hooked immediately.

Yes, I started embroidering when I was 6, sewing Barbie clothes when I was 9, also the age I made my first cake with help. Started making my own clothes when I was 13. I was 10 when I started ceramics.

I was 14 when I made my first Christmas cards with white construction paper, traced the design I'd drawn onto the construction paper card and colored with markers and glittered.

I was 18 when I started making candles.

Yep, totally wasted the first 6 years of my life not doing crafts! Oops, not all 6 years, I started learning to play piano AND read music when I was 4. Guess I always liked to do stuff!

The nice thing is, that paper crafting tools work on SO many of my other crafts. I used my dies and punches to make stencils for my glass etching and so on.

Got to get to work, can't finish this!

I started adding memorabilia to my sticky photo album in high school, but I didn't discover scrapbooking until 2000 after I'd been teaching a couple years. I did a bit of crocheting with my grandma, and I tried latch hooking. My mom sewed and painted, so someday I'd like to do that, too. Maybe when I retire. I currently do Pinterest crafts for gifts: coasters, Christmas wreaths. I've dabbled in mixed media canvases. Scrapbooking is the only thing I'm really committed to other than baking.

Yes, always. I remember embroidering jean jackets as a young teen, making a quilt, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch, etc.

I have made wreaths and other crafts items.

I always kept memorabilia and simple scrapbooks. I discovered scrapbooking as a hobby when we were expecting our first grandchild.

I can't wait to be retired so I can do more crafting.

Are you sure you aren't me?

I've always had a fascination with paper and writing. Best Christmas present I ever received was in 5th grade my mother gave me a big cardboard box full of school and office supplies. It was GLORIOUS!!!

I think I was born with a crayon in my fist, LOL. My mom sewed a lot (as in most of our clothes and most of her own), she also knew how to knit and crochet. Her twin did beautiful needlepoint and embroidery. I must have bugged her to learn to sew when I was very young because she handed me a big needle, some fabric and some buttons when I was five and taught me how to sew the buttons onto the fabric.

I remember cutting out little people from scraps of heavy fabric and sewing on buttons for the eyes, etc. By the time I was seven, I had my own sewing machine and could sew my own basic knit clothes and by the time I was eight or nine I was designing my own stuffed toys from looking at the ones I had and improvising.

I remember taking a Palmer Pletsch sewing class with my older sister when I was about 12, and my project looked nicer than hers!   (Not to mention mine actually got finished and hers didn't!) Took my first Wilton cake decorating class at 14. Bought my first rubber stamps when I was about 15 and have continued to collect them for over 30 years.

In the years since then, I've also done cross stitch, a little crochet, quilting, mosaic, latch hook, plastic canvas, stained glass, painting, drawing/illustration, paper making, Halloween costumes (and made the patterns from scratch), miniatures, decoupage, paper tole, quilling, miniature teddy bears (the smallest one was 1.25" high and fully jointed), stamping, scrapbooking, letterpress printing, book binding, photography, machine embroidery, pop-ups, designing paper piecings and 3D shaped boxes, I can't even think of everything I've tried.

I'm pretty sure that I'll do some kind of crafting as long as I'm physically able to.

I started actually scrapping as an adult, but there must have always been a part of me that wanted to, because I still had all of my (paper) awards from grade school & high school. And I was the kid who collected stickers, and would choose them over candy.

I don't ever see myself stopping scrapbooking.

For as long as I can remember, but I didn't "officially" buy my first scrapbook item until 2002. I happened to be out and about and saw a paper store and went all heart eyes. The bug really hit after my wedding and first child were born. I highly doubt I'll ever willingly give up this "hobby".

Right? I think many of us would be really good friends if we lived near each other!

Always have...crafty decorator creative.

yes.  I get it from my mom. growing up, I watched her repurpose stuff into useful household stuff with a touch of arts and crafts to it. one time, she rolled up glossy magazine pages into thin tubes then wrap them around juice concentrate containers to make pen holders. from then on I was hooked on crafting. paper crafts is fun and sewing has been really useful.