This just in: Spray paint is for winners.

I'm becoming one of those girls. I might as well admit it. Get ready to judge me.

No, not those girls.

You have a dirty mind.

But the truth may be worse.

I'm becoming....crafty.

In the past month, I have gone through about seventeen hot glue sticks and burned through the top layer of skin on all my major fingers. I've scoured my attic for old scrapbook paper and scissors and ribbon. I've spray painted so much that I'm afraid to light a match in my house.

And I've loved every minute of it.

I've never been crafty. I was okay at scrapbooking, but I stopped doing it shortly after we got married. I resigned myself to the fate of uncreative where arts and crafts are concerned. I went so far as to decide that stay at home moms who are good at crafting might as well don jumpers and wear sweaters with cats embroidered on them.

I mock what I can't do. It helps me cope with failure.

Then, suddenly, I started flirting with the idea of busting out my old neglected glue gun. It began when I realized that since we've repainted the walls this year, all my red and gold Christmas ornaments wouldn't really go. But buying a bunch of new ones was out of the question as far as the budget committee was concerned.

I'm not good at crafting, but I am good at reading blogs (it's a finely honed talent of mine). So I searched blogs for simple ideas for ornaments. What I found was that there is so much out there that I can easily reproduce. Not only that, but these moms with craft blogs aren't lame, but actually really talented and funny. And thrifty. Yay for thrifty.

And now, after a month of cutting and gluing and painting and burning my fingers, I've found that I really like making things. And finding old things in my attic that I can make over makes me feel like I'm not wasting money doing it.

Next stop: sewing doilies.

And embroidering cats.

And being totally awesome at the same time.

A few of my projects, made almost entirely from things I already had (I confess that I did buy new scrapbook paper):

My favorite crafty blogs: Just A Girl Thrifty Decor Chick Under The Table And Dreaming

Nesting Place