Getting Crafty

I grew up in an era when girls were trained from birth to do girly things.

Here Comes the Pitch

In junior high school, we were required to take home economics classes, which included cooking and sewing. No wood shop classes for the ladies. While my brothers learned to be handy with tools, I was being taught how to make a mean wrap-around skirt, a skill, I might add, which I've never used again.

Yes, it's good to know how to sew and bake cookies, and I've made use of these talents over the years. But I would have been a whole lot happier if I'd learned how to wield a saw as well as a sewing machine or Mixmaster. 

I generally take my homemaker skills for granted, but every now and again, I realize that I know more than I thought I knew.

Case in point...Mr. Ginley and I were strolling through our local craft store the other day, and I was constantly fielding questions like "What is this?" and "How does this work?"

But, it was a fun romp through the craft aisles, nonetheless. And these days, we get our entertainment however we can.

"Mebs"