Mary Pattavina
Posted By Craft Corps on March 23, 2009
Mary Pattavina
Name: Mary Pattavina
Age: 27
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Profession: UNL Graduate Student, CEO of PrettyGoodThings.com
Craft(s) of Choice: sewing, hat making, gluing, drawing, painting, felting
Blog: www.prettygoodthings.blogspot.com
I enjoy creating because of a secret I discovered back in 1988 when I was making faceless dolls out of Elmer’s glue, calico and cotton balls. Of course this mystery isn’t unknown to those who are born crafters. What is this big secret?: You can get high off crafting.
No, I am not talking about sniffing glue or sharpie markers. The high to which I refer is that amazing feeling you get when you’ve just creating something from nothing. It could start with the moment of your unique idea, a trip to the craft store, or one yard of fabric. Crafters High can find you while you are sewing up that hat, everything is clicking and your craft radar goes off because you’ve just made something amazing. Crafters High can hit you when you wear your own creation and someone stops you to say they like what you’re wearing – to which you reply, ‘Thanks! I made it!’. Crafters High can also create an eternal hope that some day when you ask your boyfriend if he wants to have a craft night with you he will agree with an enthusiastic ‘yes!’ (I mean, who wouldn’t want to feel like this?). Crafters High causes me to proclaim (and occasionally prove) that, ‘I could make that for less’. And of course Crafters High is what keeps me coming back for more. The first time I remember getting high on crafting was in 1988 making those faceless dolls. My eight-year-old self was brimming with pride. In fact, I had enough love for those dolls that I still have them almost 20 years later.
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