I come from a dysfunctional family. I was reminded of this the other day when I taught a class at Kaitlin’s Creative Cottage . The students made these adorable polymer clay, Day of the Dead pins and pendants…. Of course we all lined up for the obligatory class picture and someone dubbed it “The dysfunctional family photo!” The truth of it is, none of us are really related. We are however a close knit group of kindred spirits (even though Sandy was a first time visitor she fit right in, or at least she didn’t call us out for being goofy freaks that laugh too much and use technical terminology like “just smoof it a little” and “spin the wire thingy until it looks like this.”) As I’m certain you can tell, the judges on Craft Wars would have canned us the first episode because we didn’t use the official tools to spend loads of money at Michael’s, the shows official sponsor…Trust me on this, we do way more than our fair share to help the Tucson, Michael’s meet their sales quota on a regular basis! We are really just more the re-use and recycle kind of crafters… If there is a shiny thing on the side of the road, we will stop to pick it up. “I call dibbs on that!” and “You’re not going to throw that away are you?” is something frequently heard in my crowd. My son is appalled, “Mom, you are such a grub!” he tells me on a regular basis….I have tried to teach him that new is not necessarily better but he is from a different planet generation. A man-child that has been conditioned to need the newest upgrade and I can’t get through his hard-wired, borg brain to reach the human that once lived inside…. Yes it’s true, I come from a dysfunctional family. I can’t function living in a house with an extremely messy Android and he can’t understand the mind of his loving, creative, hopeful, inspired, crazy, fun loving mom… yeah, I know I just laid that on really thick…you never know some day he might even read this 😉
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