An old gal learning new tricks

Yes, Virginia, an old gal can learn some new tricks. Look at me; trying to learn how to blog. I have always had that desire to create. It started when I was 13 and asked for a sewing machine for Christmas. It was a Singer. It sewed forward and back and came with free lessons. I took the free lessons and tried to stick with the patterns, but it wasn't long before I was inprovising. I'd leave off a collar and add sleeves or make the pattern longer or shorter and end up with a garment that had little resemblace to the pattern I had purchased.

As the years passed I was making my own clothes without the aid of any pattern. And making curtains and quilts and pillows. And I ventured to upholster a chair, then a couch. It wasn't a professional job, but I loved the challenge of trying something new.

Each year found me trying something new. One spring, I'd paper the walls of my 8 room house and the next spring I'd paint over the paper. Then I'd take out a window and add some book shelves. I loved working outside almost better than inside and I never ran out of projects.

But then at 42, I found myself facing a new challenge. A job; 20 years sitting at a desk. I had bills to pay. I was blessed to have a job at one of the best paces in all of the world, but sitting at that desk, I daydreamed about all of the projects I would love to be doing.

At 62, I retired and that's where I am now. Retired and busier than ever. Creating things. I still love to sew, but I have been blessed to try so many of the other things I have dreamed of doing.

And with a house full of things I have created, I am blessed to find ETSY.

Yes, I am blessed indeed. I have time and God has given me talent to create. It is a gift from God.

So I am trying my hand at many things. I have to be making something all the time. My house looks more like a workshop than house.

If someone offered me a mansion lavishly furnished and paid for with the stipulation that I would have to simply enjoy it and never change anything about it or make a mess creating my crafts, I'd turn it down flat. No way.

I have to make things. Thank you Lord for all the blessings You have lavished on me. I am blessed.