Crafting Confession

I am seriously crafting challenged.

As lost as some are in the kitchen, I am in the isles of AC Moore and Michael's.  

You will never find me making a quilt from my children's old team t-shirts.   

Don't ask me to make costumes for the class play - I don't think 1st grade is ready for a revival of "Hair".  

My children will always wear commercially-produced costumes (unless they make it themselves).  

Playdough is my neat-freak vexation, while my 6-year-old creates an underwater volcano, complete with underwater creatures, from just yellow, black & green.

My 4-year-old's stick figures are better mine.

Then I realized the usefulness of something that's been buried in my photo supply bin for years, one particular item that may significantly impact my future crafting with my arts & crafts-loving Padawans -- scrapbooking tabs.

No sticky glue sticks or gooey Elmers! Clean & simple -- definitely a new favorite thing!

I have also discovered the usefulness of the whirling dervish of crafty shears my mother sent to the boys a few years ago.

All I need to add is a multi-colored pad of construction paper!

Collages just happen! With little instruction or supervision from Mom!

Then today, as I struggled to entertain the Master while the Baron was off at an after-school playdate, I stumbled upon a moment of crafty genius...

Tic-Tack-Toe!

Is there hope for the Fortuitous Housewife? 

But don't look for any costumes or quilts anytime soon!