Jaime Martinez
Posted By Craft Corps on August 13, 2009
Jaime Martinez
Name: Jaime Martinez
Age: 26
Location: Sonoma, California
Profession: Professional Crafter
Craft(s) of Choice: knitting, scrapbooking, sewing, and other needle and paper crafts.
Blog: http://www.welshgrl2.com
My life has been filled with crafting since I was a little girl. My mom sewed matching clothes for me and my American Girl dolls, my aunt sold her elegant Santa Claus dolls on the craft fair circuit, and my grandma taught ceramics out of her home. Her studio was filled with shelves of stark white figurines of ballet dancers, lambs, rabbit, churches, and anything else sweet and pure, just waiting to be painted, glazed, and fired into a masterpiece. Whenever I had a sleepover at grandmas, all I wanted to do was paint ceramics. She let me paint any piece I wanted, an act of trust that was not always extended to my cousins with shorter attention span and a weaker passion for the arts. She taught me skills- how to make snow on my church nightlight clumpy, and how to add a little blush to the cheeks of a little girl figurine.
My taste in craft projects has changed over the years- now I’d rather sew a monster or knit a hat than paint a bunny- but my love of creating beautiful things has remained the same.
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