Adventures in DIY

Hey Everyone! 

First, thanks for joining me on this. I want to take this first opportunity to explain a little what I'm trying to do here. To put it simply, as a society we've gotten dumb and cowardly. WAIT! Don't leave! This isn't some political or societal statement, it's a fact. As our culture has gotten more technologically advanced, we've gotten in the nasty little habit of paying for things we used to be taught to do as we grew up. Things like sewing, painting your house, or planting a garden are skills that were once learned as commonly as reading, writing, or math and are now skills we simply don't have time for (or feel unqualified to try). Even things that should be fun like creating (or altering) items or recipes we've gotten so used to just buying seems scarier than that boogey man made out of bug filled potato sacks from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Don't lie, that guy still freaks you out.  

Well I say fooey on that! I want to learn those things and they say the best way to really learn something is to teach it so that's what this blog is about. I want to encourage people to try to do things themselves when they would usually go to a store or call a professional. In order to restore some of our long lost knowledge and gumption, I will be researching by every means necessary on how to do anything I can think of. 

Scratch that, anything we can think of. 

Take a look at my work, if you see something you like and would like to buy it, great, I love creating things that people feel connected to. If you have something in mind but you don't see it on my site yet, even better! Email me and we'll design it together. If you see something on my site or on another site you'd like to learn how to do, OK, now you're really getting into the spirit of this! That's the best! I want your ideas, inspirations and vague inclinations so that I can help put a little more umph back into the phrase "common sense".Let's make that mean something again. 

Don't be scared, we'll do it together. If it doesn't work the first time, do what I do and break something then try again! It's therapeutic, trust me. But it all starts with an idea, nothing's to small so hit that little comment button and put it out there! 

Thanks, and wish me luck!