Every Day is Another Day to Hone Your Skills

To Procrastinate Or Not To Procrastinate?

Sometimes, you just have to get with the program. I'm talking about doing more than creating. Creating can be anything from modifying some resource in your environment to using expensive tools for cooking, woodworking, and creating standard art like watercolor. Other crafts are restoring old cars or watching the night sky. Crafts require knowledge and building skill sets. Crafts are fun. They allow you to forget about what's eating at your mind. You can escape with crafts (which eat at your mind and make you scratch at yourself until you rid yourself of that itch). Art (my anthropological disclaimer) is defined by the group. So, I don't claim to be an artist. People have called me that throughout my life. But I think they do because I can't stop working on something my mind locks onto until I've burned out on it. Maybe that means these people see me as a sad person who just can't let go. Maybe it means I study details until my brain is finished processing the way in which to do something. I don't know. But I'm not claiming to be an artist here. I'm claiming to be living through learning (for personal reasons) and trying to understand many things about the world. I'm formally educated in geology and anthropology (bio-archaeology) which provides a different evidence of my need to understand things. Like ceramics. Like source rock. Like why people do what they do...Like why the world turns. Like what makes us human. Why? Why? Why? That disclaimer dumped, I'm starting this blog to post information for people who ask me how to do things. There will be links here or names of people/blogs to visit (depending on EU internet law that encroaches on the freedoms of citizens of the US Republic). That's another disclaimer. But I plan to share photos of things I'm doing, how-tos, and most likely babble from time to time. I'm a big-picture person which is why I get caught up in all these whys in my head.

Things I Do:
1. Garden (started as permaculture)
2. Junk Journal booksmithing
3. Cook/Can food (non-GMO & gluten-free, Paleo, Keto)
4. Play with my solar oven (because it's science!)
5. Design book covers (monkey with Photoshop)
6. I used to write novels and just might climb back onto that train

Don't let all of this intimidate you. I ate an Oreo for breakfast. I'm no saint.  Happy crafting!~Kelcy



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