Dolphin With Rabies

Life on beautiful Cape Cod.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Just Added

Hothouse Blogging for Lesbians

Perfect mix of celebrity fluff, politics and pop commentary. Highly recommended.

Confessions of a Chantraphile

Because I need to read more beadwork blogs and get inspired.

One of the commonalities I'm seeing more and more in crafting blogs is that people need to periodically take a step back from what they're doing and re-examine how they're doing it. It's paying attention to the process and scutwork of preparation that allows someone to create. This is not something you see in mainstream crafting magazines, which often put forth a Martha-esque sense of "Oh, I just had these things lying around and what do you know, I created something impossibly attractive in an hour!".

How intimidating and how unnecessary. The process and the scutwork and taking a step back to re-group are part of the whole.